/maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/3880/all en /maxbellschool/channels/news/bilingual-cities-and-towns-quebec-join-forces-mount-legal-challenge-bill-96-cbc-news-348660 <p>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. </p> Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:27:12 +0000 kibel.aker@mcgill.ca 3031 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/pearl-eliadis-appointed-official-language-rights-expert-panel-344920 <p>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).</p> <p>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.</p> Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:18:57 +0000 navneet.pall@mcgill.ca 2953 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/session-wraps-national-assembly-ctv-news-montreal-339906 <p>With the last pre-election sessional period of Quebec's National Assembly drawing to a close last week, Max Bell School professor <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/pearl-eliadis">Pearl Eliadis</a> joined CTV News Montreal to discuss the key legislative news of the past several months.</p> <p><a href="https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2462880">Watch the interview</a>.</p> Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:15:29 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2844 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/legal-experts-fact-check-quebec-ad-campaign-aims-correct-falsehoods-controversial-language-law-cbc-339801 <p>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 <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/pearl-eliadis">Pearl Eliadis</a> - fact-checked the claims made in the ad in this article for CBC News.</p> Mon, 06 Jun 2022 20:39:52 +0000 victoria.weston@mcgill.ca 2842 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/five-reasons-quebecs-language-law-reform-stirring-controversy-city-news-339666 <p>May 19, 2022 | This City News article delves into the various reasons Quebec's Bill 96 is stirring controversy. Max Bell School professor <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/pearl-eliadis">Pearl Eliadis</a> provides prospective on how the proposed law would affect access to justice.</p> <p><a href="https://ottawa.citynews.ca/national-news/five-reasons-quebecs-language-law-reform-is-stirring-controversy-5385490">Read the article</a>.</p> Tue, 24 May 2022 14:16:48 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2837 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/bill-96-and-constitution-what-you-need-know-cbc-radio-339327 <p>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 <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/pearl-eliadis">Pearl Eliadis</a> weighs in.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-79-breakaway/clip/15909318-bill-96-constitution-what-need">Listen to the interview</a>.</p> Mon, 02 May 2022 13:41:25 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2825 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/pearl-eliadis-bill-96-telegraph-336032 <p>December 28, 2021 | Pearl Eliadis commented that this legislation is the latest in a years-long push to effectively authorise "blatant discrimination against religious minorities in Quebec".</p> <p>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."</p> <p>"It's not entirely clear to me that the world understands how radical this is."</p> Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:56:32 +0000 victoria.weston@mcgill.ca 2742 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/max-policy/the-overreach-of-bill-96 Pearl Eliadis argues that Bill 96 goes far beyond what is necessary or appropriate to protect the French language. Mon, 06 Dec 2021 19:04:13 +0000 Pearl Eliadis 2733 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/bill-96-violation-international-human-rights-law-cjad-800-333989 <p>September 17, 2021 | Radio interview with the Max Bell School's <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/pearl-eliadis">Pearl Eliadis</a> on the controversy of Bill 96.</p> <p><a href="https://www.iheartradio.ca/cjad/audio/bill-96-is-in-violation-of-international-human-rights-law-1.16095184?mode=Article">Listen to the interview</a>.</p> Thu, 07 Oct 2021 14:30:34 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2687 at /maxbellschool