Francophone groups outside Quebec support EMSB's fight to keep schools

Minority francophone groups outside Quebec say they are ready to create a common front to help the English Montreal School Board keep its schools.

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Minority francophone groups outside Quebec say they are ready to create a common front to help the English Montreal School Board keep its schools.

Citing a desperate need for class space in its francophone school system, Quebec Education Minister Jean-François Roberge decided to transfer two English-language EMSB schools to the Pointe-de-l’Île school commission, one less than had been originally planned.

Geoffrey Chambers, head of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), has said the decision is an assault on the linguistic rights of anglophones in the province and that the Legault government should have negotiated longer before imposing the decision by ministerial decree.