MONTREAL — Popular consumer products risk disappearing from stores across Quebec — and those that remain could be more expensive — because of the province's French-language reform, says an association that represents thousands of foreign businesses.
MONTREAL — Popular consumer products risk disappearing from stores across Quebec — and those that remain could be more expensive — because of the province's French-language reform, says an association that represents thousands of foreign businesses.
And if there are fewer products on the market, consumers will lose out, he said, because"that means certain companies will have more opportunity to raise their prices, because if there is less choice, the prices are higher." “Manufacturers would have to change their manufacturing moulds," he said."If a manufacturer has to change its manufacturing method exclusively for the Quebec market, that would entail considerable costs for a company.”
Sanz de Acedo stressed that he supports the principle of protecting the French language. “I’m French,” he said."I will always defend the interests of the French language.”
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