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The English Montreal School Board is cancelling classes for all of its elementary and high schools and as well as all daycare services next Wednesday because of a strike being held by a union of professionals.
The Syndicat des Professionnelles et Professionnels du milieu de l’éducation de Montréal (SPPMEM) has filed an official strike action next Wednesday to express their dissatisfaction with their collective bargaining negotiations and the government of Quebec.
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MONTREAL School is cancelled for students in elementary and high schools with the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) next Wednesday. The board states there will be no classes on May 19, following an announcement that auxiliary personnel, including guidance counsellors, dieticians and secretaries, will be on strike. The move is part of ongoing efforts by public sector unions to draw attention to their lagging contract talks with the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government. Members of the Syndicat des Professionnelles et Professionels du Milieu de l Éducation de Montréal (SPPMEM) union will be on strike from midnight to 12 p.m.
MONTREAL The controversial notwithstanding clause (section 33 of the Constitution Act), has been debated incessantly in Canada and particularly in Quebec since its inception in 1982, following the patriation of the Constitution. Why? Because it allows a provincial government to disregard certain rights and freedoms, knowing those guarantees are likely to get in the way of the law it would like to pass. “The notwithstanding clause is a kind of escape hatch that allows a government to pass a law that may not respect those rights and freedoms but instead of being struck down by courts it will have its effects anyway. It will be an enforceable law,” explained Robert Leckey, Dean of McGill University Faculty of Law.