Quebec to ask Supreme Court for permission to appeal school-boards ruling

Quebec will ask the Supreme Court of Canada for permission to appeal a ruling that found a provincial law abolishing school boards violates English-language minority education rights.A spokesperson for Quebec’s justice minister confirmed Friday the province will appeal a ruling from the Quebec Court of Appeal rendered in April.That ruling upheld a Quebec Superior Court decision from August 2023 which found the province’s law abolishing school boards violates linguistic minority education rights, guaranteed in Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.