Saturday, 25 April 2015

Yukon French School SC

Q105: Will the Supreme Court rule that Yukon's French school board has the power to control its own enrolment policy?
Yes: 60%
(A retrial will count as a "yes")

Yukon's French school board (which currently operates one school in Whitehorse) has sued the Yukon government, over a number of issues.  The main issue is over admissions policy; the school board wants to admit more students who are not the children or grandchildren of French speakers.  The case is currently before the Supreme Court on appeal (see articles here and here).  The original case in 2011 was successful, but was overturned by appeal by the Yukon Supreme Court.  A similar case in the N.W.T.  resulted in a victory for the government in the N.W.T. Court of Appeal (see here).  However, the Supreme Court recently ruled in favour of a Vancouver francophone school.

I think that the appeal will probably be successful; this case seems to be fairly similar to the successful Vancouver case.  However, this is not certain, given the adverse Yukon Supreme Court ruling.

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