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When 90% just isn’t good enough

January 19, 2008 – 7:23 pm | Posted in Business, In the news |

Here’s another stupid idea: Giving small business tax credits for speaking French, something they’re supposed to be doing anyway.

How do you accurately judge something like that without doubling the size of the language police?

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  1. JEan Valegens
    Posted January 20, 2008 at 5:11 am | Permalink

    Much as I agree with you that businesses should speak French; the incentive is not FOR SPEAKING FRENCH but rather TO HELP DEFRAY THE COSTS of companies with UNDER 50 employees to ‘Frenchify’ their exempt-from-Bill101-business.

    From the relevant article:
    ‘Pour favoriser le français comme langue d’usage au travail, le vice-président du Parti québécois, François Rebello, propose d’accorder des crédits d’impôts aux entreprises de moins de 50 employés QUI ACCEPTERAIENT DE SE FRANCISER.’

    It might look dumb but Insurance companies do the same thing with ‘Good Driver Discounts’. As anglos resent ‘repressive’ methods… Mr. Rebello is proposing a carrot instead of a stick.

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