L'accès à l'école anglaise au Québec

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Title
L'accès à l'école anglaise au Québec
Abstract
Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives qualified parents the constitutional right to have their children educated at the elementary and secondary levels in the language of the official language minority of the province they live in. The author points out that in 2005 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against three appeals concerning access to English schools in Quebec. Focusing primarily on two of these appeal cases -- Gosselin vs Québec and Solski vs Québec --, the author notes that the Court had to ascertain in the first appeal whether reserving access to an English school only to those entitled under Quebec's Charter of the French Language (Bill 101) did not constitute unlawful discrimination against the parents of the French-speaking majority and, therefore, contravened their equality rights; and in the second case whether a child to qualify in Quebec for access to English-language schooling needed a parent to have received most of his/her elementary or secondary education in English in Canada. The author analyzes and comments on these decisions and assesses their impact at the Quebec and Canadian levels.
Book Title
Le Fédéralisme asymétrique et les minorités linguistiques et nationales
Place
Sudbury, ON
Publisher
Prise de parole
Date
2008
Pages
229-238
Language
fr
ISBN
978-2-89423-222-4
Notes

Article originally published as: "La Cour suprême er l'accès à l'école anglaise au Québec" in Revue générale du droit, Vol. 35, no. 3 (2005) : 363-402.  https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/rgd/2005-v35-n3-rgd01583/1027261ar.pdf

Citation
Braën, André. “L’accès à l’école anglaise au Québec.” In Le Fédéralisme asymétrique et les minorités linguistiques et nationales, edited by Linda Cardinal, 229–238. Sudbury, ON: Prise de parole, 2008.
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