Protecting Our Rights. Preserve Our Future. Support the QESBA School Boards Legal Fund.
Legal action always remains a last resort. Every effort is made to resolve issues through discussions and formal correspondence with the MEQ before pursuing legal measures. All legal challenges are pre-approved by the QESBA Board of Directors which includes school board chairs and commissioners representation from all nine English school boards in Québec.
Protecting public English-language education in Québec
QESBA and its member school boards work to protect the rights and interests of Québec’s English-speaking public education community. The QESBA School Boards Legal Fund helps support this ongoing legal work.
The challenge to Bill 40 is one example of this work. It has resulted in important victories before both the Québec Superior Court (August 2023) and the Québec Court of Appeal (June 2025). The Québec government subsequently filed an application for leave to appeal the Bill 40 decision to the Supreme Court of Canada. We are awaiting the Court’s decision on whether it will hear the appeal.
Why your support matters
Protecting these rights involves ongoing legal work and significant costs.
Contributions to the QESBA School Boards Legal Fund allow QESBA and its member school boards to cover legal costs for challenges to defend the constitutional rights of English-language school boards.
Why it matters
English school boards play a foundational role in ensuring that the English-speaking community has a meaningful voice and maintains its rights to manage and control its school boards.
Local governance allows our English communities to inform decisions affecting our schools, students and families, and protects the minority-language education rights guaranteed under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Your financial support is vital to sustaining these efforts. Every donation, large or small, strengthens our ability to stand firm, protect our schools, and secure the future for generations of English-speaking students in Québec.
Please donate today. Share this message. Stand with us.
Because our children, educators, and community deserve nothing less.
How to make a donation
Donations to the QESBA School Boards Legal fund are processed through the Notre Home Foundation for a tax receipt. There are three ways to donate:
- 1 - By Cheque
Please make your cheque payable to:
Notre Home Foundation
***Include in the memo line: For the QESBA School Boards Legal Fund ***
Mail to:
Notre Home Foundation
1819 René-Lévesque Boulevard West, Suite 400
Montreal, Québec H3H 2P5
- 2 - Online by credit card
Visit: https://notrehoe-qc.ca/donationsandgrants/
Select QESBA School Board Legal Fund from the drop-down list.
- 3 - PayPal – No tax receipt issued
- 4 - Transfer of funds (Foundation to Foundation) – No tax receipt issued
Please contact Notre Home Foundation directly.
Phone: 514-375-2251
E-mail: info@notrehome-qc.ca
Tax receipts from Notre Home Foundation
Notre Home Foundation is a registered charity and will issue official tax receipts for all eligible donations over $25.
A 7% administrative fee applies for all donations, and an additional 3% to online donations made through the Canada Helps platform.