Quebec’s French-language law is another obstacle for synagogues and schools trying to recruit rabbis
Synagogues and schools in Quebec are finding it is taking longer than it did in the past to hire rabbis to fill vacant posts. There are fewer candidates available, and in some cases the language requirements imposed by Bill 96, add another layer of difficulty. Bill 96, which enacts even more restrictive measures on the […]
Julius Grey, the lawyer challenging Quebec’s French-language law, deplores its ‘massive abuse of civil rights’
Quebec’s new French-language legislation is a “massive abuse of civil rights” that threatens to turn the province into an “inspector state,” says Julius Grey, who is heading a legal team that will challenge Bill 96. The veteran human rights lawyer denounced the legislation in an online forum organized by B’nai Brith Canada, with the participation […]
Gregory Bordan is the lawyer who couldn’t persuade Quebec to accommodate foreign rabbis in its new language law
A small detail in Quebec’s new language legislation will have “enormous repercussions” for the Jewish community, says the lawyer who made a last-ditch effort to have that clause modified. Gregory Bordan was unsuccessful in persuading the government to maintain the longstanding flexibility afforded to rabbis from outside Canada who take positions with synagogues here as […]
Quebec’s Bill 96 with its stricter French-language rules is deeply worrying to the Jewish community
Bill 96, the Quebec government’s sweeping new legislation to strengthen the use of French, is being widely denounced by Jewish community members as violating the rights of not only anglophones, but all citizens. An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec, which became law on May 24, is the most transformative reform […]
Jewish lawyers’ group charges that Quebec language bill threatens civil rights
A Jewish lawyers’ association warns that Bill 96, the Quebec government’s sweeping reforms to strengthen the French language, threatens the civil rights of non-francophones “Seldom has proposed legislation impacted access to justice, equality before the law, and the most fundamental principles underpinning our legal system to the extent that Bill 96 does,” the Lord Reading […]
