Quebec

Pearl Eliadis on Free Speech Rights in Quebec School Disciplinary Case | The Montreal Gazette

isabela.sullivan@mcgill.ca — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:04:31 +0000

November 11, 2025 | The Montreal Gazette reported on a case involving a Montreal West high school student who was disciplined after posting comments critical of Israel on her private social media account. The student’s family argues that the school violated her right to freedom of expression and plans to file a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal, while the English Montreal School Board maintains that the posts breached its anti-bullying policy.

Pearl Eliadis on the Risks of Quebec’s Secularism Report | CBC

isabela.sullivan@mcgill.ca — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:57:07 +0000

August 28, 2025 | In a story reported by CBC, a Quebec government committee has issued 50 recommendations, including extending the religious symbols ban to subsidized daycares and requiring people to uncover their faces for public services. These proposals have drawn criticism from community leaders, who argue they discriminate against religious minorities, particularly Muslim women.

Pearl Eliadis on Bill 94 and Quebec’s Secularism Strategy | CBC

isabela.sullivan@mcgill.ca — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:42:59 +0000

March 20, 2025 | In a CBC interview, Pearl Eliadis criticized Quebec’s Bill 94, arguing that the government is fully aware the legislation violates the Canadian Constitution. She pointed to the use of the notwithstanding clause as proof, saying it allows the government to override fundamental rights because it knows the bill wouldn’t hold up in court. Eliadis described the law as a political tactic by the Coalition Avenir Québec to win support by outdoing the Parti Québécois on issues of identity and language.

Pearl Eliadis on Quebec’s Bill 94 and the Deepening Discrimination Under the Guise of Secularism | Law360 Canada

isabela.sullivan@mcgill.ca — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:14:22 +0000

April 11, 2025 | In an interview, Pearl Eliadis critiques Quebec’s newly proposed Bill 94, which expands the province’s secularism rules by extending the ban on religious symbols to all school support staff and volunteers, mandating uncovered faces in educational institutions, and prohibiting religious accommodations across the education system.

Pearl Eliadis on Quebec’s Ban on Religious Symbols | The New York Times

pinaki.siwach@mcgill.ca — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:59:13 +0000

January 25, 2025 | The Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether a law that Quebec enacted in 2019, barring public-sector workers from wearing religious symbols, violates their rights. Professor Pearl Eliadis said that while one of the main tenets of Quebec’s secularism was the idea that the state should be a neutral actor, she thought the law had imposed the government’s viewpoint of what nonreligion ought to look like in the public service.

Pearl Eliadis: Top court hearing challenge on Quebec's secularism law 'not unexpected' | CBC

pinaki.siwach@mcgill.ca — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:13:25 +0000

January 24, 2025 | The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a challenge against Quebec's controversial secularism law that prohibits certain public workers from wearing religious symbols while performing their duties. Professor Pearl Eliadis joined for an interview with the CBC to discuss the nature of the issues at stake, by the very fact that the court has agreed to hear the case.

Pearl Eliadis on Bill 21 | La Presse

pinaki.siwach@mcgill.ca — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:36:41 +0000

January 24, 2025 | The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to grant permission to appeal in the Bill 21, Quebec’s controversial secularism law. The decision marks a significant development in the ongoing legal battle, which has raised concerns among minority communities over religious freedoms and equality in the province.

Bill 96 is in violation of international human rights law | CJAD 800

matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 14:30:34 +0000

September 17, 2021 | Radio interview with the Max Bell School's Pearl Eliadis on the controversy of Bill 96.

Listen to the interview.

Ottawa's new anti-Islamophobia advisor is facing backlash | Global News

kibel.aker@mcgill.ca — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:24:41 +0000

January 31, 2023 | As National Assembly resumes in Quebec City, hostilities between the provincial and federal governments are heating up. The latest controversy rose from Prime Minister Trudeau defending the appointment of Amira Elghawaby as his government's special representative to combat Islamaphobia. Premier François Lagault and other members of the government are in disbelief.

Pearl Eliadis appointed to the Official Language Rights Expert Panel

navneet.pall@mcgill.ca — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:18:57 +0000

Max Bell School Associate Professor Pearl Eliadis, has been selected to the Official Language Rights Expert Panel of the federal Government’s Court Challenges Program (CCP).

The objective of the CCP is to provide financial support to Canadians to bring before the courts test cases of national significance that aim to clarify and assert certain constitutional and quasi-constitutional official language rights and human rights.

Video | Humour, Hate and Harm Conference

Max Bell School of Public Policy — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:50:37 +0000

This hybrid half-day conference convened at the Max Bell School of Public Policy on November 25, 2022. Watch the recordings of the panelists and speakers.

Can Quebec pharmacists legally refuse to prescribe the morning-after pill? | CBC News

matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:54:08 +0000

August 6, 2022 | Recently, in Saguenay, Que., a pharmacist rejected a woman's request to purchase emergency oral contraception, claiming that then morning-after pill did not "align with his values." Human rights lawyer and Max Bell School professor Pearl Eliadis weighs in.

Read the article.

Session wraps up at National Assembly | CTV News Montreal

matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:15:29 +0000

With the last pre-election sessional period of Quebec's National Assembly drawing to a close last week, Max Bell School professor Pearl Eliadis joined CTV News Montreal to discuss the key legislative news of the past several months.

Watch the interview.

Legal experts fact-check Quebec ad campaign that aims to correct 'falsehoods' on controversial language law | CBC News

victoria.weston@mcgill.ca — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 20:39:52 +0000

June 3, 2022 | After Bill 96 passed in the Quebec legislature, the government of Quebec published a full-page advertisement in both French and English newspapers to "correct falsehoods" circulating about the law. However, several legal experts - such as Max Bell's Pearl Eliadis - fact-checked the claims made in the ad in this article for CBC News.

Five reasons Quebec's language law reform is stirring controversy | City News

matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca — Tue, 24 May 2022 14:16:48 +0000

May 19, 2022 | This City News article delves into the various reasons Quebec's Bill 96 is stirring controversy. Max Bell School professor Pearl Eliadis provides prospective on how the proposed law would affect access to justice.

Read the article.