-Its not a false equivalency. Its laws around displaying products accurately to the population, ie. must be in a sufficient amount of french so the majority of the Population can read it.

Btw, you can list any other language on signage, as long as french is also present and sufficiently prominent. Chinese restaurants have menus in chinese... but they double list the French items in a slightly larger font.

-Why is it similar to segregation in any way? English is permitted in the workplace. Workplaces under certain # are fully exempt and workplaces needing english/or other foreign languages have broad exceptions. How is anyone's right trampled? The laws prevent requiring english proficiency when it is not necessary. Requiring it would be exclusionary.

Try maintaining a job at companies in Toronto refusing to speak any english and see if you can argue a human rights abuse case for your subsequent dismissal.

-I'm sorry, but this is contemporary enough. If you are upset at law 101, it came about in a context were some of these laws had only begun to be reversed in the 1960s and only partially. They had been in effect for many decades by then and its impact on french spoken outside of Quebec has been dramatic. Manitoba's french demographic has been effectively erased. Ontario's was maintained by underground clandestine schools. New Brunswick's dialect was creolized.

Both Ontario and New Brunswick's school systems are systematically underfunded. Francophone communities are constantly lobbying to not get dismissed by chauvinistic governments, even today. Doug Ford and former Blaine Higgs were no friends to francophones.

Compare honestly the state of English hospitals and schools, including cegeps and universities to those in New Brunswick, Ontario and Manitoba for francophones. Compare the language used in all four provincial legislators. Quebec's english language institutions are amongst the safest and best protected in the entire country. Find me a more protected minority group in the Western World.