Philip Authier

Bill 83 includes fines up to $100,000 a day for non-compliance to the law and up to $200,000 for repeat offenders.

Premier's comments come after a poll showed 53 per cent of Quebecers think he should resign while 33 per cent said he should run again.

"At the same time as we face an enormous economic risk, people are worried about their wallets," premier says about PQ's plan to use public funds to promote a referendum, should the party take power in 2026.

The cash will be used to reopen French classes because of magnitude of the increase in demand for them, the immigration minister says.

Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge wouldn't specify what the new number will be. "For now, we have done nothing. We just have a new law with new tools."

The education minister says the latest allegations of secularism laws being flouted are "completely intolerable and unacceptable."

The province's education minister says the latest allegations of secularism laws being flouted are 'completely intolerable and unacceptable'

In the wake of such controversies as the emergence of religion in schools, Quebec needs to "send a clear message to Islamists," premier says.

One day after Marc Miller accused the Quebec premier of picking on Muslims, the premier says he will defend Quebec values

Premier deplores the fact “no measures have yet to be announced to tighten the criteria for the issuing of visas.”