From: steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Access to English school: quotes
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:32:13 GMT
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Here are a few interesting quotes on my central theme:-


  Claude Ryan (Then Quebec's Minister of Education):-

   "Le Quebec estime juste, logique et normal qu'un enfant de langue
    anglaise - au sens definit par la Loi 101 - ait access a l'ecole
    anglaise si telle est la volonte de ses parents. Il est vrai que
    la Loi 101 definit certaines restrictions concernant l'access a
    l'ecole anglaise. Ces restrictions durent etre imposes en raison
    d'un contexte historique qui avait entraine l'orientation vers
    l'ecole anglaise de plus de 80% des enfant de foyers immigrants
    au Quebec. Les dispositions de la Loi 101 traitent de l'access
    a l'ecole anglaise furent heuresement prises en compte par le
    legislateur lors de l'adoption de la Charte canadienne des droits
    et libertes. En reprenant a son compte, dans l'article 23(1)(b)
    de la Charte le critere de la frequentation de l'ecole primaire
    par les parents et en prevoyant a l'article 59 que l'article
    23(1)(a) [Steve's note: 23(1)(a) = Mother tongue criteria] n'aura
    d'application au Quebec qu'apres autorisation de l'Assemblee
    nationale ou du gouvernement du Quebec, les auteurs de la Loi 
    constitutionelle de 1982 ont vu a empecher que ne se reproduise
    la situation scolaire qui fut a l'origine de la Loi 101."

                                    [U. of Ottawa: 11 May, 1990]



  Prof. Jacques Henripin (Prof. of Demography, U. of M.):-

   "On the issue of schools, we could have, from the outset,
    allowed genuine anglophones - those born in Quebec, elsewhere
    in the country or elsewhere in the world - to attend English-
    language schools. We could have allowed the English-language
    schools to remain accessible to all who were genuine
    anglophones. We went a bit far with that, but it did not
    affect a lot of people. [Steve's note: aprox 12,000 English
    speaking children are affected by it]

    As far as signs go, I really do not see why we did what we
    did. I do not know why we bothered people with something like
    that."

                    [Beaudoin-Edwards Special joint committee of
                     the Senate and H. of C. on Process for 
                     amending the Constitution: 26th April, 1991]



   Recommendation #1 of the Chambers' Task Force on English
   Education in Quebec.:-

   "THAT THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION RECOMMEND TO THE GOVERNMENT
    OF QUEBEC THAT access to education in English be widened at
    least to include any child who was being educated in English
    or who has a parent from an English-speaking part of the world."

                          [Submitted February 5th, 1992]

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