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Williams promoted to assistant dean of students and dean’s lead of Black and Indigenous flourishing

The notwithstanding clause can be invoked to pass controversial laws that override the rights of citizens

Robert Leckey, the dean of McGill University's faculty of law, weighs in.

The Coalition Avenir Québec government will face plenty of opposition, from grassroots environmental groups to opposition parties in the National Assembly to the courts. But do the CAQ's opponents stand a chance?

An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec (Bill 96), will plainly spur numerous interpretive debates within the public and before the courts.

New language law "has the potential to fundamentally change the constitutional order in Quebec — it sets French above fundamental rights and freedoms."

In response to negative media attention about the new language law, Bill 96, the CAQ government took out a full-page newspaper ad this week to correct what it called "falsehoods." Legal scholars told CBC the ad contains falsehoods of its own.

In response to negative media attention about the new language law, Bill 96, the CAQ government took out a full-page newspaper ad this week to correct what it called "falsehoods." Legal scholars told CBC the ad contains falsehoods of its own.

"Whats the most disturbing is this is publicly signed by the government of Quebec, not the Coalition Avenir Québec, although its clearly political."

"Non!" to the further imposition of French in Quebec — how the fight over French has incensed many of the English-speaking minority in this Canadian province.