quebec — sparking a fresh controversy, the legault was to use closure this weekend to adopt its controversial health-reform package , bill 15.
the government used closure to adopt bill 9 on immigration, bill 21 on state secularism , bill 40 replacing school boards with service centres and bill 34 imposing a ceiling on hydro rates .
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on wednesday, caq house leader simon jolin-barrette offered to add three more days to the schedule next week so the committee studying the massive bill could continue to work.
when the committee ended its work thursday, there were still 500 articles to be adopted. one key amendment that would have allowed the new health agency being set up in the bill, santé québec, to revoke the bilingual status of some health institutions was withdrawn by dubé at the last minute thursday.
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dubé replaced it with another amendment, which he said restores the original wording of quebec’s laws concerning institutions allowed to offer services in a language other than french. liberal health critic andré fortin said friday he does not think the minority protection in the new amendment is strong enough.
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