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QUEBEC Marlene Jennings says she was wrong to back Premier François Legault when he suggested the English Montreal School Board was not qualified to decide about school openings and closings.
And she has apologized to the board.
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“When you are wrong, you are wrong!,” Jennings, head of the Quebec Community Groups Network, said in a tweet Thursday.
“And boy was I wrong to support Legault on school closures (or not).
“EMSB was right and I was wrong. I apologize unreservedly to EMSB. Full stop.”
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As 2020 comes to a close, the Montreal Gazette looks at people who will make an impact in the year ahead. T’Cha Dunlevy talks to them about what’s on their mind in these challenging times.
“It’s been non-stop busy,” said Marlene Jennings, looking back on 2020. “I’m still trying to catch my breath; and I haven’t been able to do that yet.”
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In September, she ended a whirlwind, one-year stint as trustee of the English Montreal School Board. In that time, she pulled the EMSB out its dysfunctional state, and helped it transform into an entity equipped to face the future.
MONTREAL Quebec s attorney general argued Wednesday that the province s state secularism law does not deny freedom of religion rather, it frames it. After hearing arguments against the controversial law in court for several weeks, the attorney general s office will take the next two days to plead its constitutionality. The piece of legislation, known as Bill 21, is being contested by several groups who want to have it struck down, in whole or in part. Adopted in June 2019 by the National Assembly, it prohibits the wearing of religious symbols by certain public employees when they are performing their functions, including police officers and Crown prosecutors, as well as to teachers in public primary and secondary schools.