Judge orders Élections Québec to prepare voter reminder cards in French and English

Judge Sylvain Lussier ordered Élections Québec to prepare election reminder cards in English and in French, in a judgment issued Wednesday morning. The agency had announced earlier this month that, for the first time in a general election, it would only mail French-language documents to comply with the province's language laws.

"The status of French is not restricted by the permission to inform English-speaking voters in their own language," Lussier wrote in his analysis.

The court was asked to grant a provisional interlocutory injunction and exempt the provincial agency from a section of Quebec's Charter of the French Language that makes French the only language of communication for public institutions.

In his decision, Lussier said he partially accepted the provisional interlocutory injunction, granting it for a period of 10 days.