CEGEPs give bill a failing grade - Committee warned language criteria may be discriminatory

By Philip Authier. The Charter of the French Language appears "amply sufficient" to protect French and it is unnecessary to alter the preamble to Quebec's charter of rights, the Bill 14 committee has been told.
And the province's CEGEP federation has come down squarely against making native tongue the determining factor to enter an English college. Saying the proposed CEGEP admission criteria in Bill 14 is "potentially discriminatory" and would create unsolvable admission headaches, the sole criteria should be a student's academic record - as it is now, the Fédération des CEGEPs said. Read more...