{"id":2151,"date":"2013-03-13T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/13\/ouimet-unequivocally-opposes-bill-14\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:54","slug":"ouimet-unequivocally-opposes-bill-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/13\/ouimet-unequivocally-opposes-bill-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouimet unequivocally opposes Bill 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Gilles Ouimet doesn’t mince words about the harm that Bill 14 could wreak in Quebec. \u201cThe Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois is stirring a pot that was at peace,\u201d Fabre’s elected representative in Quebec City told The Suburban<\/i> in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always have to be careful, because language has to be protected and promoted,\u201d he acknowledged, \u201cbut doing so at the expense of social peace is not the way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had reached the point where there was linguistic peace, and we should not be starting useless debates over language issues,\u201d Ouimet asserted. \u201cI support the Quebec Liberal Party’s approach on language, and we’re going to oppose Bill 14.\u201d<\/p>\n

The draft legislation proposes giving the province’s language police the right to enter premises and seize, on the spot, any item that they deem to offend the Quebec language charter.<\/p>\n

Hitherto, successive separatist governments have been wary of jailing offenders, who could inadvertently become a class of minority-group political prisoners.<\/p>\n

Challenging school transfers <\/b><\/p>\n

Ouimet is also actively engaged on the education front, after the French-speaking Commission scolaire de Laval<\/i> (CSL) arbitrarily changed its rules, preventing some families from sending all of their children to the same school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe enrolment policy has caused some difficulty because the rules were changed retroactively,\u201d Ouimet explained, \u201cafter some parents had been promised that their kids would not be transferred.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the action of the school board is unfair, and might also be illegal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ouimet acknowledged Laval’s burgeoning population means that CSL is currently grappling with the issue of overcrowding.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHowever, the solution that they have adopted does not take into account that some parents had been given a specific promise,\u201d he countered. \u201cThe school board cannot decide to change its rules unilaterally, without at very least consulting parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m not sure that a school board has the right to change the rules, period, with respect to parents who were specifically promised that in the future they would not have to face a transfer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a basic issue of fairness,\u201d Ouimet concluded.<\/p><\/div>\n

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