“Taking into account the increase in cases, the fall coming up with the back to school and back to work and the expected prevalence of the delta variant, the conditions are there to deploy the vaccination passport,” Christian Dubé said.
Quebec
Quebec Opposition calls for COVID-19 vaccine passports as infections top 175
Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade said Tuesday on Facebook the province needs vaccine passports to avoid another lockdown, as people are set to return to offices and schools are scheduled to resume in a few weeks.
Quebec to use vaccine passports to limit access to non-essential services if COVID-19 situation worsens
Quebec’s Minister of Health and Social Services Christian Dubé made it clear that the rollout of the vaccine passport will not happen until all eligible Quebecers will have had a chance to receive two doses of the vaccine, which is estimated to happen around Sept. 1.
Conrad Black: The Quebec secessionist strategy — disrupt the status quo of indifference
The general indifference we’ve seen toward Bill 96 indicates the extent of Quebec’s gradual suppression of its non-French minority, as well as the fatigue and boredom of attrition that afflicts the Rest of Canada on the subject of Quebec.
Quebec spends $14 million to make legal system more accessible to Indigenous people
Changes follow recommendations of a public inquiry into relations between Indigenous groups and some of Quebec’s public services.
Conrad Black: The Quebec secessionist strategy — disrupt the status quo of indifference
The reaction across Canada to Quebec’s Bill 96, another language law invoking the professed threat to the survival of the French language in Quebec in order to justify an obnoxious retrenchment of freedom of expression in the province, has been quite different to the response to its predecessors, Liberal Premier Robert Bourassa’s Bill 22 in 1974, and Parti Québecois Premier Rene Levesque’s Bill 101 in 1977. On those occasions, there were intense reactions from the non-French community of Quebec, representing approximately 20 per cent of the population, and very audible sympathetic noises from the other (primarily English-speaking) provinces. The general indifference we’ve seen this time indicates the extent of Quebec’s gradual suppression of its non-French minority, as well as the fatigue and boredom of attrition that afflicts the Rest of Canada on the subject of Quebec.
Quebecers and the rest of Canada deeply divided on Quebec’s proposal to modify Constitution: poll
‘People aren’t necessarily rejecting anything, they’re just wanting greater explanation of what the meaning is of these constitutional changes’.
Braid: Kenney backs Quebec’s drive to be declared a nation
Premier Jason Kenney says he admires Quebec’s attempt to declare itself a “nation” in Canada’s Constitution.
In fact, he feels Quebec is leading the way for Alberta to assert its own powers and identity.
h/t Marvin
Rex Murphy: Justin Trudeau takes a knee to the ‘nation’ of Quebec
Quebec can unilaterally alter the Canadian Constitution, the prime minister says. So who speaks for Canada?
John Ivison: Even on constitutional matters, Trudeau’s focus remains on Project Majority
Westerners are frustrated that Quebec is declaring itself an entity within Canada, with the PM’s blessing. But Trudeau needs Quebec votes more than he needs the West’s.
Quebec sees explosion of far-right activities over past decade, study finds
Activities by far-right groups have gone from two a year to two a week in the last decade, with 2020 considered to be the busiest year, according to a study released Friday by a Quebec centre that studies radicalization.
Quebec presents new language reform bill set to strengthen use of French
“This bill affirms that the only official language in Quebec is French. It also affirms that French is the common language of the Quebec nation. To that end, this bill makes several modifications to the Charter of the French Language,” he said as he tabled the bill.
Quebec confirms first case of ‘double mutant’ variant from India
Quebec has identified its first case of the B.1.617 variant of COVID-19 that originated in India and is believed to be fuelling the pandemic surge in that country.
The case was identified in a patient in the Mauricie region, north of Trois-Rivières, officials with the Institut national de la santé du Québec (INSPQ) confirmed Wednesday.
There is no such thing as a ‘double mutant’. This is shameless fearmongering.
Quebec Superior Court upholds religious symbols ban, but Anglo schools exempt
The Quebec Superior Court has struck down some sections of the province’s secularism law, but also ruled its most controversial provisions are constitutional.
In a ruling handed down Tuesday morning, Justice Marc-André Blanchard said the Quebec government has the right to restrict what religious symbols are worn by government employees, such as teachers, police officers and prosecutors.
But he also said the law can’t be applied to English schools because it violates minority language education rights, protected under Section 23 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.