Quebec doctors who provide care in English say they're concerned about new language legislation

The people who provide health care in Montreal in English say they are extremely concerned about what Bill 96 might mean for them and their patients.

Doctors at the Jewish General Hospital were given a briefing this week on Quebec’s new language legislation meant to strengthen French in the province.

“I think it seems more to obliterate and oppress an English minority,” said Adriana Decker, who is originally from Uruguay, but has been a family doctor in Montreal for the past decade.

Decker said she was stunned when she saw how Bill 96 as it's written could affect health care.

“The law is written in the most complicated way possible,” said Eric Maldoff, a prominent Montreal lawyer and long-time language rights advocate.