Quebec's Bill 21: EMSB 'happy' Supreme Court will hear legal challenge

Quebec's Bill 21: EMSB 'happy' Supreme Court will hear legal challenge

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"It means that there's a constitutional question of national importance," says Joe Ortona, chair of the English Montreal School Board, after the Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear their appeal of Quebec's secularism law, Bill 21.

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