Robert Libman: It s time to speak up, diplomatically, but with passion Those who step up can expect to take some lumps, but it s clear Quebec Liberals won t defend anglo concerns; it s up to the community.
Author of the article: Robert Libman • Special to Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Apr 30, 2021 • April 30, 2021 • 3 minute read • A bilingual sign is seen in 2013 at Nettoyeur Masson, one of the companies involved in the 1988 Supreme Court decision that ruled against parts of Bill 101 and paved the way for English on commercial signs. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /The Gazette
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Who is ready and willing to stick their neck out? Once the much anticipated legislation beefing up Bill 101 is tabled in the National Assembly, who will step up and represent the concerns of minority communities in Quebec?
Mulcair: Federal leaders should step up against Bill 21 The pusillanimity of all federal party leaders in dealing with the issue of discrimination against religious minorities has been shameful.
Author of the article: Tom Mulcair • Special to Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Apr 20, 2021 • 18 hours ago • 3 minute read • Demonstrators in Place Émilie-Gamelin in Montreal Sunday, April 7, 2019 protest against Bill 21. On Tuesday, Justice Marc-André Blanchard ruled that Bill 21 does indeed violate religious freedom guarantees, but that the so-called “notwithstanding clause” shields most of it from being struck down. Photo by John Kenney /Montreal Gazette
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Quebec Superior Court Justice Marc-André Blanchard has just rendered a lengthy, nuanced decision. He ruled that Bill 21 does indeed violate religious freedom guarantees, but that the so-called “notwithstanding clause” shields most of it from being struck down.
Tom Mulcair: Federal leaders should step up against Bill 21 The pusillanimity of all federal party leaders in dealing with the issue of discrimination against religious minorities has been shameful.
Author of the article: Tom Mulcair • Special to Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Apr 20, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read • Demonstrators in Place Émilie-Gamelin in Montreal Sunday, April 7, 2019 protest against Bill 21. On Tuesday, Justice Marc-André Blanchard ruled that Bill 21 does indeed violate religious freedom guarantees, but that the so-called “notwithstanding clause” shields most of it from being struck down. Photo by John Kenney /Montreal Gazette
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Quebec Superior Court Justice Marc-André Blanchard has just rendered a lengthy, nuanced decision. He ruled that Bill 21 does indeed violate religious freedom guarantees, but that the so-called “notwithstanding clause” shields most of it from being struck down.
The recent brouhaha centered around Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) president Marlene Jennings is symptomatic of a much larger issue. Founded some 25-years ago in a different political era devoid of the Internet and less provincial centralization, the QCGN attempts to bring widely scattered and disparate community groups together under a single lobbying/pressure-point umbrella so as to promote the vitality of Quebec s English-speaking communities.
The 50 or so groups (there are no individual members but organizations only) that claim membership have vastly competing interests and goals; for example, what can be offered to Catholic Action Montreal, Parkinson Quebec, Loyola High School, Saint Columba House, and/or the Gaspesian British Heritage Village? As can be appreciated, each separate group has its own administration and via its separate internal governance will make its wishes/demands/interests known to the QCGN.
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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.”