More than 10 questions from MPs across both sides of the House were devoted to a single issue in Parliament on July 7: whether Singapore’s policy on dialect films still makes sense nearly 50 years after the Speak Mandarin Campaign began.The trigger was Dear You, the Teochew-language film whose limited release reignited debate over the longstanding restriction on dialect films.The questions by the MPs pointed in the same direction: Has the official thinking about dialects changed? And if so, should its policies change too?It was an opportunity to outline what Singapore’s language policy looks like in 2026 and where it…