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From an Ottawa Citizen article:

Ontario francophones are reluctant to ask for French-language services in the province's justice system because they fear being labelled as troublemakers, according to a University of Ottawa study.

Political science professor Linda Cardinal said that more than 80 per cent of francophone users of the province's justice system who participated in the study said they were afraid to ask for services in their own language.

Cardinal said most people who participated in focus groups in Ottawa, Toronto and Sudbury said they never or almost never asked for services in French. Almost everyone assumed that the services would not be available even when required by provincial law.