01 June 2022

QESBA: EMSB is right to challenge forced school transfers

We believe that the Quebec government is eroding the constitutional rights of the province’s English-speaking minority.

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-emsb-is-right-to-challenge-forced-school-transfers?fbclid=IwAR2ihYf-lb0DL8MNlI3b80gukmXtwclt_OoKIEgqr_roEG017UuGm-wRWZI

Round one of what will likely be a prolonged legal battle is to conclude on Monday, when a Quebec Superior Court judgment is to address the English Montreal School Board’s (EMSB) request for a provisional stay on the government of Quebec’s cabinet decision transferring General Vanier Elementary School and John Paul I Junior High School to the French sector. The court has been asked to suspend these school transfers pending the hearing of the case on its merits.

The bottom line is that since there are constitutional implications, this matter is not soon to be settled definitively.

Over time, tensions between neighbours will increase, positions will harden and the focus will be taken away from the young people of both linguistic communities ...

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