Franco-Ontarian Bookstore Promotion and Protection Act, 2025
Sponsored by Lucille Collard LIB
44th Parliament, Session 1
About this Bill
TL;DR
- • Creates a support framework for French-language bookstores in Ontario
- • Extends protection to other designated Franco-Ontarian cultural institutions
- • Broadly supported across party lines
- • Criteria for qualifying institutions not fully specified
Creates a support and protection framework for French-language bookstores and other designated Franco-Ontarian cultural institutions in Ontario, recognising their role in sustaining French-language cultural life in the province.
The bill has received broad cross-party support as a measure to protect a minority-language cultural institution. Some questions have been raised about which institutions qualify as designated Franco-Ontarian cultural institutions and how the designation process will work.
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An Act respecting Franco-Ontarian bookstores and other Franco-Ontarian cultural institutions.
Legislative Progress
First Reading
First Reading
Oct 20, 2025
Second Reading
Second Reading
Nov 17, 2025
Committee
Committee
Nov 17, 2025
Report Stage
Report Stage
Nov 17, 2025
Third Reading
Third Reading
Royal Assent
Royal Assent