(CBC) The Quebec government says Ottawa has some explaining to do after it was revealed that the English Montreal School Board is funding two separate legal challenges of provincial laws with federal tax dollars.
“We need an explanation from the federal government,” said Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette — the face of Quebec’s controversial secularism law, known as Bill 21.
The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) is challenging that law, as well as a section of the Education Act that allows the province to force the transfer of schools between school boards — namely last summer’s transfer of EMSB buildings to a French-language school board in Montreal’s east end.
Federal money administered by the University of Ottawa is being used, in part, to pay for that legal challenge.
