07 October 2019

Macpherson: Under the CAQ, the exceptional is becoming normal

No previous Quebec government has attacked minority rights as systematically as François Legault's.

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/macpherson-under-the-caq-the-exceptional-is-becoming-normal?fbclid=IwAR01H9zfkQdRItG5FuJ8xTtlv3nyvXABCfW9aNeCQNbHWgxsXtGGMFZ4jrw

When Education Minister Jean-François Roberge exercised a rarely used power to order the closing of an English-language high school at the end of this school year so it could be handed over to a French-language board, he called his action “exceptional.”

That was in late January. Less than four months later, the exceptional is becoming normal.
The sudden closing of Riverdale High School in the West Island became a cause célèbre in the English-speaking community. That hasn’t deterred Roberge, however, from threatening to again dispense with the normal one-year prior consultation provided for in the Education Act in order to transfer three more English schools to a French board, this time in east-end Montreal ...

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