Education minister threatens francophone education councils with dissolution
I think it’s really curious that the minister doesn’t want to move to dissolve the francophone decks that aren’t supporting his policy, but is moving to dissolve the anglophone deck that doesn’t support the policy. I’m not sure why the different treatment, but it’s certainly curious. And this is at a time when he could act to get rid of this whole hassle and ask the Court of Appeal, as he said in his statement, to provide clarification and to rule on whether this actually upholds the Charter of Rights. Why not take that to the Court of Appeal? Now and get rid of all of the court cases and costs. I think that reading the Education Act and I, you know, I I’ve read it probably 10 times in the last two months just to make sure that I’ve got it right. I thought I knew it before and I and you know, maybe this in parts that I don’t get disc quote yet I the the Frankenfone decks at this point have not taken us to court, so we haven’t engaged the lawyers to defend ourselves with that. However, they’re subject to the same law. They’re subject to the Education Act just like everybody else if they refuse to follow the directive of corrective action. That was issued, then we’re going to follow the process that’s available under the Education Act for all of the decks. We’re not going to just pick one out, but in this particular instance, anglophone E school, the deck has brought a court case to the courts and we’re obligated to defend ourselves against that.