Mine didn’t even have French all the way through - you had to do it by correspondence or go the the local French immersion school. Which is barely constitutional in Canada.
IIRC the right to education in either official language is in there. Ditto for other government services. Language rights are serious business in Canada.
The country started as a pretty forced union between the Quebec, populated by Francophones, and upper Canada which was full of Loyalist refugees and escaped slaves and things. Keeping the peace between the sides was paramount if the British wanted to keep their united bulwark against American expansion going. Even so, Quebec came pretty close to separating a couple times in the late 20th century.
Stuff like free speech and basic human rights is actually in a separate, later document.
My school was all boys and when we asked how it was legal to discriminate based on gender, they said that in this instance they are not saying girls can’t go to school and other options were available to girls who wanted to go to private schools.
With that being said, I’m not sure the logic makes total sense, but there were two all girl schools about a block away.
Mine didn’t even have French all the way through - you had to do it by correspondence or go the the local French immersion school. Which is barely constitutional in Canada.
Can you elaborate on the constitutionality of that to an American.
IIRC the right to education in either official language is in there. Ditto for other government services. Language rights are serious business in Canada.
The country started as a pretty forced union between the Quebec, populated by Francophones, and upper Canada which was full of Loyalist refugees and escaped slaves and things. Keeping the peace between the sides was paramount if the British wanted to keep their united bulwark against American expansion going. Even so, Quebec came pretty close to separating a couple times in the late 20th century.
Stuff like free speech and basic human rights is actually in a separate, later document.
My school was all boys and when we asked how it was legal to discriminate based on gender, they said that in this instance they are not saying girls can’t go to school and other options were available to girls who wanted to go to private schools.
With that being said, I’m not sure the logic makes total sense, but there were two all girl schools about a block away.