Quebec said francization budget has increased [Video]

A union representing French teachers in Quebec is protesting cuts to the francization budget, but the government is pushing back — arguing instead that the budget increased.

Last month, the government launched a $2.5 million ad campaign to promote the French language. But some teachers were learning they wouldn’t have a job for the school year, and immigrants who signed up for classes were blindsided.

Amelie Girard, who works at the Centre de formation continue des Patriotes in the Laurentians, said about 90 per cent of the francization classes in her school centre were cut. The number of French classes offered to adult immigrant went down from 10 to just three. Girard worries that soon there won’t be any classes offered in the lower Laurentians.

“We have money until January, and then on Jan. 24 I don’t know what I will do because they will cut all the services,” she …