June 08, 2023 | The courts were asked by twenty-three municipalities to suspend parts of Quebec's new language law, which they describe as abusive. Mayors are concerned about communications, illegal searches and seizures, government grants and the obligation, set out in the law, to discipline public employees who break the rules by working in English.Ìý
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Published on: 8 Jun 2023
Max Bell School Associate Professor Pearl Eliadis, has been selected to the Official Language Rights Expert Panel of the federal Government’s Court Challenges Program (CCP).
The objective of the CCP is to provide financial support to Canadians to bring before the courts test cases of national significance that aim to clarify and assert certain constitutional and quasi-constitutional official language rights and human rights.
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Published on: 13 Jan 2023
François Legault has been elected for a second mandate as Quebec premier with a majority government. Addressing supporters at his campaign headquarters, Legault told a large crowd that some of his key priorities will be the economy and tackling inflation. ().Ìý
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Published on: 7 Oct 2022
With the last pre-election sessional period of Quebec's National Assembly drawing to a close last week, Max Bell School professor Pearl EliadisÌýjoined CTV News Montreal to discuss the key legislative news of the past several months.
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Published on: 14 Jun 2022
June 3, 2022 | After Bill 96 passed in the Quebec legislature, the government of Quebec published a full-page advertisement in both French and English newspapers to "correct falsehoods" circulating about the law. However, several legal experts - such as Max Bell's Pearl Eliadis - fact-checked the claims made in the ad in this article for CBC News.
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Published on: 6 Jun 2022
May 19, 2022 | This City News article delves into the various reasons Quebec's Bill 96 is stirring controversy. Max Bell School professor Pearl Eliadis provides prospective on how the proposed law would affect access to justice.
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Published on: 24 May 2022
April 28, 2022 | Numerous English-language advocacy groups have raised concerns about potential constitutionality issues with Quebec's recently tabled Bill 96, which was introduced as a means to safeguard the status of the French language. In this interview on CBC Radio, Max Bell School professor and humans rights lawyer Pearl Eliadis weighs in.
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Published on: 2 May 2022
December 28, 2021 | Pearl Eliadis commentedÌýthat this legislation is the latest in a years-long push to effectively authorise "blatant discrimination against religious minorities in Quebec".
Eliadis said that while it was important to have protections in place for the French language, with Bill 96, "Quebec is starting to drift off into territory where they're really prepared to take pretty much any measures, sometimes outside the law ... to achieve that goal."
"It's not entirely clear to me that the world understands how radical this is."
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Published on: 5 Jan 2022
September 17, 2021Ìý| Radio interview with theÌýMax Bell School's Pearl Eliadis on the controversy of Bill 96.
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Published on: 7 Oct 2021
