(CBC) The English Montreal School Board says it will not take the $250,000 it was offered by the federally backed Court Challenges Program to fight two Quebec laws that the board contends go against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
In a statement Thursday, the EMSB says it did apply to the program, administered by the University of Ottawa, to challenge the province’s controversial secularism law, known as Bill 21, as well as a section of the Education Act.
The board says its applications were approved, however, to date it has not received the funds it sought, and now it is renouncing them altogether.
Even if it is turning down a quarter of a million dollars, the EMSB isn’t throwing in the towel in its fight against the two laws.
