QCGN launches Access to Justice project for English-speakers with concerns of Bill 96

"A powerful tool," describes Mitra Thompson, part of QCGN, about the organization's new Access to Justice website, which provides information to the English-speaking communities in Quebec about their rights amid Bill 96. Felisha Adam reports.

The Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), one of the organizations that are part of Quebecers against Bill 96 – Quebec’s French-language law – launched an Access to Justice website, something they say will work to inform English-speaking communities in the province about their rights to access justice, services, and resources.

“There is a real need for the community to understand the impacts of [Bill] 96,” says Sylvia Martin-Laforge the Director General Of The Quebec Community Groups Network.

Mitra Thompson, part of QCGN says, the goal of the Access to Justice Project is to “generate relevant information and use it as a powerful tool to drive issue-specific improvement on access to justice in English and Quebec.”


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“The community has always had very strong priorities around access to justice, access to health and social services, access to education,” something now made more difficult amid Bill 96 “these priorities seem to become more focused on the implication that law 96 will have on these priorities,” says Laforge.

The website will provide information on criminal justice, education, employment, youth and family matters, housing, and information for those new to the province.

Its priority is to educate the English-speaking community on what their rights are even with Quebec’s French-language law.

The website will try to combat any misinformation according to Laforge, “it’s really to understand what [Bill 96] means in their everyday lives.”

She says the website will continue to be updated as Bill 96 is implemented. For support and more information on the Access to Justice Project visit their website.

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