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As an organization serving the minority-language community of English-speaking Quebecers, ELAN strongly condemns the implementation of Bill 21 and Justice Michel Yergeau\u2019s decision last week to reject an appeal from civil rights organizations to suspend this law. We support the newest actions of the National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":29290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,1],"tags":[67,65,120,136,435,68],"class_list":["post-29271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-news","tag-activism","tag-advocacy","tag-education","tag-elan","tag-inclusion-article","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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