Premier is hands off with English School Board while he interferes with French School Board
Rick MacLean Holland College on Premier Ghiz
“If the Eastern School Board can make its decisions, the French school board can make it’s decisions” Paul MacNeill rightly asked the question on CBC Radio.
How can the Premiere justify closing schools saying he can’t interfere with a school board but can interfere in not opening a French school?
CBC’s political panel last night said Ghiz is all wrong in this issue. Ghiz is being hypocritical and cowardly at once on this issue.
During the closing of the English schools in Eastern PEI, Ghiz steadfastly refused to interfere. Politics was not going to sway him. He called on the School Board to act through due process.
During the parallel process with the French school board, he has done nothing by interfere. He has controlled the size and shape of the school. Ghiz’ last offer is to move it outside the main village it serves to make the local Lions Club happy.
The French school board already made its decision but that’s not good enough for Premier Ghiz. He is meddling and everyone knows it.
The English majority in Canada spent two hundred years denying the fights of Canadian Francophone’s to their language and culture.
No one volunteered to build them French schools. It was typical repression of a minority.
With the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came minority language rights. It tool almost ten years of court battles for local French parents to gain their rights a French school in Summerside.
When he lost the battle at the Supreme Court, Premier Pats Binns realized the law was on the side of the Francophone’s. He started building French schools.
Despite a decade of opposition from English only bigots, no one lost a hair on their heads since the school was built in Summerside.
Ghiz promised the French school board their school in Rustico but has been delaying the decision every since he won.
The French language school board won the right from the Supreme Court of Canada to represent the French speaking parents. They don’t need, nor would they likely get, consensus approval from the English majority.
Why is Premier Ghiz breaking his own non-interference rule to stir up bigotry against the French?
Here’s the CBC Political Panel basically saying he doesn’t have a leg to stand on, except cowardice.
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