French woman told not French enough for Quebec residency

MONTREAL, Canada--A French woman seeking permanent residency in Quebec was turned down on grounds that her French was not good enough. Emilie Dubois, 31, has lived in the mainly French-speaking province since 2012, completed her doctoral thesis at Laval University in Quebec City in French, started a small business in the province and even passed a language test. But all that wasn't enough to convince Quebec officials to give her an immigration suitability certificate that is a prerequisite to gaining permanent residency. "It's absurd," she told AFP. French is the official language of government, commerce and the courts in Quebec -- a former French colony ceded to Britain ...

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