English Montreal School Board:
Quebec is not a nation
In the midst of an election campaign, the English-Montreal School Board wants the Supreme Court to rule on the legality of the French-language reform of the Legault government. She also denies the fact that Quebec is a nation.
The organization is asking the federal government to send Bill 96 “to the Supreme Court of Canada”.
In a document, the EMSB explains why it is making this request. “Here is the question we must ask again and again: why does the protection of the French language require a general suspension of human rights? »Supports the school board, which is the trial of the bill piloted by the minister Simon Jolin-Barrette.
The piece of legislation gives "vast search and seizure measures, restrictions on those who will have the right to receive government services in the language of their choice, a cap on enrollment in English-speaking CEGEPs, and a more precise definition. close to people qualifying as a member of the English-speaking community of Quebec, ”we lament.
But what seems to particularly irritate the school officials of the EMSB is the amendment to the Constitution proposed by the Legault government. She accuses him of "unilaterally rewriting the constitution to recognize Quebec as a nation where the only language is French".
The EMSB relies on a retired McGill professor, Jon G. Bradley, to assert that Quebec "is not a nation and never has been". “It is not because we lend ourselves an identity that it becomes our own, and the Quebec intelligentsia deliberately uses the word“ nation ”in order to evoke a reality that only exists in its own mirage.
The only precise word to use to define the reality of Quebec is “province”, ”writes the EMSB. "We must insist that Quebec always be designated as a 'province'", we can read in the document.
Put pressure
For the constitutionalist Patrick Taillon, who proposed to the government to unilaterally modify
the Constitution, the EMSB seeks to “put pressure”.
“They cannot challenge the bill themselves until it is passed, so they are asking the federal government to intervene,” he explains .
It is a maneuver rarely used, but which marks the imagination. Think of the reference relating to the secession of Quebec in 1998, notes Patrick Taillon, who is also a professor at Laval University.
The organization is asking the federal government to send Bill 96 “to the Supreme Court of Canada”.
In a document, the EMSB explains why it is making this request. “Here is the question we must ask again and again: why does the protection of the French language require a general suspension of human rights? »Supports the school board, which is the trial of the bill piloted by the minister Simon Jolin-Barrette.
The piece of legislation gives "vast search and seizure measures, restrictions on those who will have the right to receive government services in the language of their choice, a cap on enrollment in English-speaking CEGEPs, and a more precise definition. close to people qualifying as a member of the English-speaking community of Quebec, ”we lament.
But what seems to particularly irritate the school officials of the EMSB is the amendment to the Constitution proposed by the Legault government. She accuses him of "unilaterally rewriting the constitution to recognize Quebec as a nation where the only language is French".
The EMSB relies on a retired McGill professor, Jon G. Bradley, to assert that Quebec "is not a nation and never has been". “It is not because we lend ourselves an identity that it becomes our own, and the Quebec intelligentsia deliberately uses the word“ nation ”in order to evoke a reality that only exists in its own mirage.
The only precise word to use to define the reality of Quebec is “province”, ”writes the EMSB. "We must insist that Quebec always be designated as a 'province'", we can read in the document.
Put pressure
For the constitutionalist Patrick Taillon, who proposed to the government to unilaterally modify
the Constitution, the EMSB seeks to “put pressure”.
“They cannot challenge the bill themselves until it is passed, so they are asking the federal government to intervene,” he explains .
It is a maneuver rarely used, but which marks the imagination. Think of the reference relating to the secession of Quebec in 1998, notes Patrick Taillon, who is also a professor at Laval University.
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