“There is no language police, it’s not possible to organize that,” Ms. De Courcy said. “What is possible is for all Quebec citizens to be language sentries.”
She said offenders would be identified on the Internet from the moment a complaint is filed.
“If the business — knows that, we hope they will change their way of doing things,” Premier Pauline Marois said.
Constitutional lawyer Julius Grey said the call for citizen vigilance is troubling. It is in keeping with a reflex that encourages people to take disputes to authorities, rather than settle them among themselves.
“That’s one aspect of our society that I do not like,” he said.But overall he applauded the PQ’s new language legislation.