🚀 go-pugleaf

Stephen Jenuth (jenuths@office.cwlib.cuug.ab.ca) writes:
> In can.legal Elat Lerner <cx172@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
> 
> : I have seen comments saying that a constitutional amendment may be 
> : required to solve the unequal situation created between the public and
> : separate school boards. The reports say that such amendments were
> : already instated for other provinces.
> 
> : Just showing my ignorance here. Are constitutional amendments
> : trivial? What does it take?
> 
> It requires the consent of the provincial legislature and the
> federal parliament. 

What does consent mean - simple majority? something else?

> Parliament will also look to ensure that
> the proposals have the support of the minority group which they
> are effecting.
> 
> Parliament ought not to be a problem if all that is doing is giving the
> public boards (the majority) the same rights privileges and 
> responsibilities which the minority has. 
> 
> Since the provincial government is the one attacking public education,
> I'm not sure that they will be passing the amendment, however.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Stephen Jenuth
> (jenuths@cuug.ab.ca)
> 
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.