Bill 96: It’s a big topic
Some of the response to Bill 96 Friday concerned the restriction on access to English-language CEGEPs. Effectively, the law will restrict francophone student access to post-secondary education in English.
The city’s 3 English CEGEPs say students will leave Quebec, which may marginally be true, but one of the facts about CEGEP is that it’s all but free, and students often simply continue into CEGEP while living at home. Not everyone has the means to leave and go to school somewhere else.
A summary of the bill in the Gazette.
Not surprisingly, the Journal’s opinion page is a cheering section:
Joseph Facal: Voir un Québec se tenir debout fait du bien
Josée Legault: Projet de loi 96: un coup politique fumant
Denise Bombardier: Simon Jolin-Barrette: l’héritier
…and so on.
Lots more to come.
Tim S. 21:37 on 2021-05-14 Permalink
Yes, but some of the ambitious families who want their kids to be comfortable in the wider world will have the means to send their kids away – and others won’t. It’ll just perpetuate class divisions within francophone Quebec.
I’m quite curious to see if there will be a significant backlash among those who will lose out (and their parents, and potential employers).
dhomas 22:52 on 2021-05-14 Permalink
Gilles Bélanger: AIIE (American Institute of Industrial Engineer), Georgia Tech, S.A.S. Institute (North Carolina)
Claire IsaBelle; Concordia
Marguerite Blais: Concordia
Joëlle Boutin: Concordia
Lionel Carmant: McGill, Harvard
Pierre Fitzgibbon: Harvard
Eric Girard: McGill
Mathieu Lacombe: University of Ottawa
André Lamontagne: Mount Saint Vincent University
Lucie Lecours: McGill (currently enrolled)
Mathieu Lévesque: University of Ottawa, McGill
Danielle McCann: McGill
Christopher Skeete: unspecified English HIgh School, Vanier CEGEP, Concordia
What a bunch of hypocrites. I can almost guarantee some of their kids are currently enrolled in English schools either in Quebec or elsewhere. Unfortunately, their biographies don’t list where they went to CEGEP.
Uatu 08:52 on 2021-05-15 Permalink
Post secondary education is becoming increasingly online. How are they going to police students taking online courses in English? Can’t wait to see the Journal live stream a raid into young Jean Pierre’s bedroom for language violations by taking Econ 101 on Arizona State university online 😛
jeather 10:51 on 2021-05-15 Permalink
Curious how the “must give preference to English language eligible students” is going to work out in practice. I suspect they had to do something like that to avoid a giant complaint from anglo parents whose kids can’t get into the English cegeps at all because there isn’t enough room.
david228 11:44 on 2021-05-15 Permalink
Dhomas – I was surprised by your list of schools (not in small part because so many went to Concordia), so I looked in up. Very misleading. Almost everyone on your list did their schooling at a francophone school or in a francophone program. Also, having just done the same work you did, it’s a lot to do just to make an incorrect and misleading point about hypocrisy.
Gilles Belanger – started at Ottawa (which is a bilingual school), undergrad degree is from UdeM, engineering degree from Polytechnique, and then later some courses/certificates in the US
Claire Isabelle – undergrad degree at UQAM, PhD. from UdeM/Concordia
Marguerite Blais – undergrad at UQAM, PhD. from UdeM/Concordia in her 50s
Joelle Boutin – undergrad degree is out of Laval University up in Quebec
Lionel Carmant – who is black, incidentally, took his MD at the University of Sherbrooke, did a two year pediatric neurology residency at McGill, and two year pediatric epilepsy fellowship at Harvard/Boston Children’s
Pierre Fitzgibbon – undergrad degree is from HEC, got a certificate from Harvard
Eric Girard – finally, someone on your list that’s right. Did his BA and MA in economics at McGill
Mathieu Lacombe – from Hull, attended the bilingual University of Ottawa
Andre Lamontagne – University of Laval undergrad, did a master’s degree 20 years later at Mount Saint Vincent
Lucie Lecours – studied French/Quebec literature at McGill, an entirely french program
Sylvain Levesque – studied at the bilingual University of Ottawa
Danielle McCann – the only other francophone on your list that did attend an English program and school
Christopher Skeete – is a stone cold anglophone so no shock that he went to school in English (also non- or partially white, to the people interested in that sort of thing)
Of those who attended a Cégep, every one attended a French language Cégep aside from Chris Skeete.
Uatu 14:00 on 2021-05-15 Permalink
I really enjoyed when Stone Cold Anglophone teamed up with Hulk Hogan in WrestleMania 22!
dhomas 14:11 on 2021-05-15 Permalink
My point is that for a party that seemingly wants to eliminate Anglophone schools, many of them got at least some schooling from English schools when it was convenient to them. Under their new rules, would these same people have been able to do so?
dhomas 14:17 on 2021-05-15 Permalink
Also, where did you find their CEGEPs? Their biographies on Wikipedia did not list CEGEP. (Admittedly, I didn’t do any in-depth research, just Wikipedia surfing.)
david268 17:13 on 2021-05-15 Permalink
Under the new rules, they’d be able to attend whatever university and get whatever certificates they were admitted to, yeah.
Cégep info I got from a combination of the legislature site, the party site, and googling various things.