Quebec Woman Raises Alarm After Region’s Only Vet Forced to Quit Over Language Laws

Quebec Woman Raises Alarm After Region’s Only Vet Forced to Quit Over Language Laws
In this Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, photo, a veterinary technician feeds a horse in Rishon Lezion, Israel. The Canadian Press/AP Photo/Oded Balilty
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Horse owners in a part of western Quebec say they’re losing their only veterinarian because her French isn’t good enough to pass the language test required to get a licence.

More than 6,400 people have signed a petition started by local farmer Chantal Chrétien asking the province to grant an exemption due to an extreme shortage of veterinarians in the Pontiac, Que., region.