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Caricature from February 14, 2023

alt= "Translated from original French artwork. Title: Modernizing the Official Languages Act Illustration: Justin Trudeau juggling eggs. One egg is inscribed C-13, and is intact. Several eggs have fallen to the ground and are broken. These are inscribed: Garneau, Lambropoulos and Housefather. Trudeau is thinking: I should have picked another number for that Bill.

Decisive changes are made to the Official Languages Act, now called Bill C-13. It highlights the fragility of French in Canada and the divergent realities of francophone minorities and Quebec’s anglophone minority despite the disapproval of certain federal MPs, including Marc Garneau, Anthony Housefather and Emmanuella Lambropoulos.

Credit: Francopresse, February 14, 2023.