He welcomed a Quebec Superior Court ruling in 1985 that determined the province's Charter of the French Language could not prevent businesses from using English on signs and advertisements.
Most of the controversy surrounding Quebec's language laws in this period was focused on the Charter of the French Language, popularly known as Bill 101.
At one stage, he charged that anglophones would “more or less eventually disappear” from Quebec as a result of the PQ's language legislation.
The incident occurred as the Assemblée Nationale was debating on Bill 14, a bill to toughen the province's Charter of the French Language.
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The first, An Act to amend the Official Languages Act (Charter of the French Language) (Bill C-482), was introduced by Bloc MP Pauline Picard.