The English Montreal School Board says it will launch a legal challenge of Quebec’s recently adopted language law reform.
The board said in a news release today that it believes the law, commonly known as Bill 96, violates English-speaking Quebecers’ constitutional right to manage and control their own educational institutions.
The language law, adopted on Tuesday, caps enrolment at English-language junior colleges and requires students at those colleges to take three additional classes in French.
The English school board was one of several groups to challenge Quebec’s secularism law, which bans teachers, police officers and certain other public sector employees from wearing religious symbols….