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According to The Globe and Mail:
A group of Quebec immigrants has succeeded in striking down a controversial law that barred their children from entering English-language elementary schools.
In a 7-0 ruling today, the Supreme Court of Canada said Quebec must pass a less “excessive” provision within a year if it intends to replace the dead prohibition.
Within minutes, Quebec’s minister responsible for language, Christine St-Pierre, touched off what promised to be a day of political discord in the province by saying that she was “disappointed and angry” at the ruling. The ruling upheld a 2007 Quebec Court of Appeal decision that struck down the law, which prevented a child from attending a non-subsidized English-language elementary school for a year or less and then transferring into the English public school system.
Read the full decision in Nguyen v. Quebec (Education, Recreation and Sports), 2009 SCC 47
I have yet to get through the full decision (exams are creeping up), but please share your thoughts.
