Official Languages Minister Mélanie Joly said she is very concerned by the massive cuts to staff and programs at Laurentian as it goes through an insolvency process controlled by the courts and intended for private-sector corporations.
Laurentian is officially a bilingual university and roughly one-third of its students are francophone, which is why the federal government takes a particular interest in its fate.Earlier this month, the Sudbury-based university eliminated 110 tenured teaching positions and cut nearly 70 programs in an attempt to reduce costs.
Ms. Joly said the CCAA process was never intended for public institutions, and poses particular dangers because it doesn’t take into account the need to protect the rights of linguistic minorities. One of her Liberal colleagues, Sudbury MP Paul Lefebvre, has introduced a private member’s bill that would prevent the use of the CCAA for public institutions. Very few private member’s bills become law, however.Ms. Joly said she sees three possible scenarios for the future of Laurentian.
A third possibility would be to work with the newly created Université de l’Ontario Francais in Toronto to create another node in a network of French universities similar to the University of Quebec model, Ms. Joly said.
Stop with the bail outs!!!
Laurentian is officially a bilingual university and roughly one-third of its students are francophone, which is why the federal government takes a particular interest in its fate.
There go the feds again. When fordnation fails they swoop in fordfail failingford FordMustResign
Thank goodness.....heaven forbid Ford and team in Ontario actually do something for one of our own universities, too bad they weren't a far right evangelical college run by an barely literate zealot.
Laurentian U. should be amalgamated with a larger school & become a satellite campus of it retaining only those programs which are viable.
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