You will probably find me stupid, but I always believed that the large sums that were sent to the organizations that govern our school system were used to offer the best possible educational services to children.
• Read also: English Montreal School Board: $1.3 million to challenge the State Secularism Act
Well, I was wrong.
Among our English-speaking friends, part of the millions that we send annually to the English Montreal School Board are used to fight laws that were adopted by a democratically elected government!
Children don’t see the color!
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!
This is what journalist Patrick Bellerose from Quebec Journal last Thursday.
The English Montreal School Board has spent, to date, at least $1.3 million of public money to challenge the State Secularism Act in court.
And that’s not all!
This is just the beginning! At the English Montreal School Board, we will continue the fight against Bill 21 and Bill 96 all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary!
And it will cost whatever it costs!
“There is no maximum amount,” announced President Joe Ortona during a public meeting on December 19.
In any case, it’s public money that comes from taxpayers and the State, so to hell with spending!
Why use this money to educate young people when we can use it to fatten the coffers of law firms?
Come on, hop on, spin the counter!
And above all, don’t cut us off, Mr. Legault and Mr. Drainville, we need state money to put obstacles in your way!
IT’S NOT THE LAW, THE PROBLEM
For Joe Ortona, Law 21 on secularism has a direct effect on the quality of education provided to children because it is “discriminatory” and “prevents the English Montreal School Board from hiring certain teachers on the basis of arbitrary criteria” .
In other words, it prevents the hiring of Muslim teachers.
It’s wrong.
First of all, the majority of Muslim women do not wear the veil.
Veiled Muslim women agree to remove their veil when they are in class.
- Listen to the interview with Patrick Bellerose, journalist at the National Assembly for the Journal de Montréal and the Journal de Québec, via QUB :
And if a woman who studied educational sciences prefers not to work as a teacher and bury her dream rather than remove her veil during her working hours, it is not because of the Legault government or the law 21.
It’s because of his overly rigid conception of his religion.
Let her go complain to her imam! He’s the one who’s stopping her from working!
Look, two imams (Adil Charkaoui and Hamza Chaoui) recently said – during a sermon in a mosque – that Muslims should not work as orderlies because their job requires them to see the private parts of people of the opposite sex .
They also say that Muslim hairdressers should never do “downgrades” because their God will punish them!!!
(They said nothing about the Longueuil cut, the use of curlers or the wearing of toupees.)
Is it the government that prevents Muslims from working in CHSLDs and hospitals?
THE NEW EQUALITY PARTY
If citizens want to challenge the validity of laws 21 and 96 in court, no problem! After all, we live in a democracy and governments are not above the law.
But a school board has no business using part of its budget for activism!
In fact, we suspected it, but it is now clear…
The English Montreal School Board is more than just a school board: it is the new Equality party.
A lobby that actively “defends” the cause of Anglo-Quebecers.
Anglophones do not recognize themselves in the National Assembly. They no longer even recognize themselves in the Liberal Party of Quebec (which they consider… too nationalist!).
Their “vehicle”, now, their megaphone, is their school board.
This is called mission diversion.
As Joseph Facal told me at QUB: “The English Montreal School Board is the Canadian Trojan horse on Quebec territory. The only difference: the soldiers do not hide in the horse, but ride it!”
Archive photo, Pierre-Paul Poulin
Jesus is a heaven?
Spanish ultraconservatives were shocked by a poster of Jesus, unveiled during Holy Week celebrations. They thought he was too effeminate and not manly enough.
I have some news for them. A few years ago, anthropologists presented what in their eyes was the most faithful representation of Jesus. They based themselves on the way people ate at the time, the climate, lifestyles, etc.
Result: Jesus was a short, fat man with an olive complexion and shaggy black hair. We are far from Jesus Christ Superstar!
Not easy, tipping!
Question about tipping: let’s say you tip 15%. This means that a server who serves you a $40 wine will have a $6 tip, while the one who serves you a $100 wine will have a $15 tip. Yet it does exactly the same thing!
Does this mean that a suitcase carrier who carries an expensive suitcase should receive a bigger tip than someone who carries a suitcase purchased on a discount?
And the girl in the locker room? Will her tip vary depending on the value of the coat she hangs on the hanger? The same goes for the valet who parks the cars? Five dollars for a Toyota, fifteen for a Lexus?
Legault overreacts
Opposition parties told the CAQ that it should stop insinuating that citizens can have access to ministers if they donate $100. François Legault responded by saying that the CAQ will no longer resort to private financing.
That’s not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. This is throwing the entire bath out of the water! It’s demolishing the bathroom with a sledgehammer!
No one asked the CAQ to go this far!