P.O. Box 21, NDG Station, Montreal, QC Canada, H3A 3P4. In their drive to supplant confessional school boards in Quebec with linguistic ones, P quistes have run up against section 93 of the BNA Act, that old butter churn of a constitution separatists would like to ditch altogether. Protestant and Catholic school boards are archaic holdovers, they argue.
Language is the educational fault line of today.
Keep it and Quebec is forced into a jig-saw puzzle of school boards, Protestant, Catholic, English, French. Get rid of it, and reason and modernity prevail. So do the amendment, M. Dion, and do it now. Dutifully, M. Dion said he would, though he'll have hearings first, just to put a proper face on things. Some of us might prefer more sobre second thought to federal Liberal window dressing.