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In the run-up to tomorrow’s Quebec budget, the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) met with Finance Minister Eric Girard to underscore a longstanding demand that funding for community organizations in Quebec representing Anglophones be upped to reflect the size of the English-speaking population.  Read more

“All minorities should be worried about the ruling” on Bill 21 released Thursday afternoon by the Quebec Court of Appeal, Sylvia Martin-Laforge, director general of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), tells CTV. She adds that the ruling sets a dangerous precedent: “It means that the government can pass any bill, like Bill 96, that … Read more

Montreal – February 29, 2024 – QCGN expresses deep condolences to the family of former Prime Minister of Canada the Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney, who died today at age 84. He was a man of stature whose profound belief in the sanctity of human rights never wavered, and who did much to build bridges between … Read more

Quebec is expected to introduce legislation requiring digital streaming platforms, including Netflix and Spotify, to offer more French-language content. Quebec Culture and Communications Minister Mathieu Lacombe says the legislation will be based off a recent report on the protection of Quebec culture online. “In this report, we find common cause with Quebecers who are worried … Read more

The Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) shares the frustrations at McGill and Concordia that led to the decisions by both universities to turn to the courts, in separate actions, to try to reverse sharp tuition hikes that specifically target out-of-province students, says QCGN president Eva Ludvig. Read more

The Quebec government’s resolve to continue to target out-of-province university students with tuition increases is “very harmful” to both McGill and Concordia universities, says Sylvia Martin-Laforge, director general of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN). In a video report by Global News, she underscores that severe damage is simultaneously being inflicted “to Montreal and to … Read more

“We would look to the federal government to intervene or express their concern about allowing the pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause by provinces,” says Sylvia Martin-Laforge, director general of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN). The QCGN was responding to Jean-François Roberge, Quebec’s minister responsible for secularism, after he tabled Bill 52 — legislation … Read more

Quebec’s English-speaking community views the English-language media as part of its institutions, says Quebec Community Groups Network President Eva Ludvig. The recently-announced job cuts at Bell Media are another blow to a community which relies on such media to publicize its issues, she says. Watch here

Premier François Legault says that renewing the notwithstanding clause to protect Bill 21 would maintain the “social peace” that he says the secularist law has created. The Quebec Community Groups Network is among those who have called the renewal of such a clause an affront to fundamental freedoms. Read more

Bill 21 “has created more division (in Quebec society), taken away rights from minorities,” Eva Ludvig, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), emphasizes during an interview this morning with host Peter Tardif on CBC’s Quebec AM. She explains the legal context. Listen here

“Bill 21 is a discriminatory law that is an affront to the fundamental freedom of conscience and religion of Quebecers,” Eva Ludvig, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), responds after the Quebec government serves notice that it plans to extend its law on state secularism for a further five years. “Citizens in a … Read more