{"id":8052,"date":"2023-07-25T14:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/quebec-woman-says-she-was-denied-service-for-speaking-english\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T14:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:26:30","slug":"quebec-woman-says-she-was-denied-service-for-speaking-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/quebec-woman-says-she-was-denied-service-for-speaking-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec woman says she was denied service for speaking English"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qyUNYVgBpMU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Quebec&#8217;s French Language Ministry says the provincial health insurance board is required to serve certain users in English.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roberge&#8217;s office promised to follow up with the R\u00e9gie de l&#8217;assurance maladie du Qu\u00e9bec (RAMQ) after a worker allegedly hung up on a woman because she didn&#8217;t speak French.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Starkey, 75, said she called RAMQ earlier this month to inquire about her husband&#8217;s coverage. But the worker on the line allegedly refused to speak to her in English and told her to &#8220;go find somebody&#8221; before reportedly ending the call.<\/p>\n<p>\nSubscribe to CTV News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CTV News:<br \/>\nFor the latest news visit: <br \/>\nFor a full video offering visit the CTV News Network:<\/p>\n<p>CTV News on Facebook:  <br \/>\nCTV News on TikTok:<br \/>\nCTV News on Twitter:  <br \/>\nCTV News on Instagram: <br \/>\nCTV News on Reddit:<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nCTV News is Canada&#8217;s most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec&#8217;s French Language Ministry says the provincial health insurance board is required to serve certain users in English. Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roberge&#8217;s office promised to follow up with the R\u00e9gie de l&#8217;assurance maladie du Qu\u00e9bec (RAMQ) after a worker allegedly hung up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1073,2754,2755,7291,48,208,7289,7290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}