“We expect our members of Parliament to support our minority language community,” Eva Ludvig, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), tells Global News. Read more
Quebec’s English-speaking community has been left with “the impression of not being considered by the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government and that its relations with (the government of Premier François Legault) are worse than with previous governments in Quebec, including those of the Parti Québécois,” observes commentator Michel C. Auger. He cites Friday’s news release … Read more
A Canadian Press story quotes Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé on a controversial change briefly proposed for Bill 15: “You are going to explain to me what would change because if we have to modify it or remove it, we will remove it.” The story notes the intervention by the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN). … Read more
A La Presse story on Bill 15 notes that the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) has pointed out that Quebec government has not shut the door on closure to ramming Bill 15 through the National Assembly by the end of this week. Read more
The Journal de Montréal cites Friday’s news release from the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) in its coverage of the brief attempt to add a mechanism to Bill 15 allowing access to English-language health and social services to be stripped from institutions across the Quebec system currently designated bilingual. Read more
The QCGN is alarmed by the last-minute amendment in Bill 15 by the Coalition Avenir Québec government, which aims to give Santé Québec the power to revoke the rights of health institutions from offering services in English. “We are shocked that minister (Christian) Dubé would try and drop an amendment like this into Bill 15 … Read more
The latest volley against Quebec’s English-speaking community by the Bloc Québécois – this time being a critique of the funding it receives from the federal government – is a red herring, comments columnist Toula Drimonis. She makes note of the reaction by the QCGN, which wrote in a statement that the funding is meant to … Read more
Eva Ludvig, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), says she hopes the Quebec health minister really is taking the community’s concerns seriously. But she isn’t entirely convinced. “You’ll forgive me if I’m being a little bit sceptical,” says Ludvig: “We’ve seen the impact of Bill 96 in spite of all the reassurances and … Read more
Health Minister Christian Dubé backtracks Friday: “I will withdraw (a surprise fresh amendment proposed for Bill 15) if I am not able to realize, or put in place, the commitment that we’ve have made that there will be no change in services for anglos or the status of their hospitals. I just want to be … Read more
There is fresh urgency to sign a petition demanding the Quebec government slam the brakes on its massive Bill 15, which is designed to create a vast centralization of our health and social-services network. The imperative arrives in the form of a last-minute, government-proposed amendment, suspended for the moment, that would give its new central … Read more
QCGN President Eva Ludvig was on hand at a town hall meeting at Dawson College earlier this week to warn attendees of the potential negative impacts Bill 15 could have on accessing health services in English. “This act is centralizing under one body, under control of the bureaucracy,” she explained. “They know nothing about the … Read more
Quebec’s Bill 15 has been structured to create a centralized provincial agency that will oversee the public health-care system — using a top-to-bottom approach many critics suggest constitutes a recipe for disaster. Elizabeth Zogalis reports, with video, on a Town Hall at Dawson College where Eva Ludvig, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), … Read more