...province had immediately before the coming into force of this section. 93. In and for each Province the Legislature may exclusively make Laws in relation...Persons have by Law in the Province at the Union: (3) Where in any Province a System of Separate or Dissentient Schools exists by Law at the Union or...

...Separate High Schools, the Court held that Section 93 reads in part: 93. In and for each Province the Legislature may exclusively make Laws in relation...Persons have by Law in the Province at the Union; (3) Where in any Province a System of Separate or Dissentient Schools exists by Law at the Union or...

...Specifically, section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867 states: Section 93. In and for each Province the Legislature may exclusively make Laws in relation...(2) All the Powers, Privileges, and Duties at the Union by Law conferred and imposed in Upper Canada on the Separate Schools and School Trustees of the...

...section 93 of the British North America Act, 1867, are as follows: 93. In and for each Province the Legislature may exclusively make Laws in relation...subject and according to the following Provisions: ileges with respect to separate schools in Ontario as of 1867. Section 7 of the Separate Schools Act,...

...provincial legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to education but that these laws must not prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to denominational schools which existed in 1867. Section 133 prevents the legislature of Quebec or the federal Parliament from making...

...Formerly the British North America Act, 1867. Section 93 reads as follows: In and for each Province the Legislature may exclusively make Laws in relation...Nothing in any such Law shall prejudicially affect and Right or Privilege with respect to Denominational Schools which any Class of Persons have by Law...

...to make laws in relation to education, but one qualifying provision read: "Nothing in any such laws shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege...Denominational Schools which any class of persons have by law or practice in the Province at the Union." At the time the practice was various.1 In 1871 the provincial...

...93 of the act empowered the provinces to make laws on education, provided that they did not impair 'any right or privilege with respect to denominational...persons have by law in the province at the union' (that is, at the moment when the province joined Confederation) or was established subsequently by...

...were basically Catholic, the anglophones basically Protestant. Section 93 of the BNA Act guarantees "any Right or Privilege with respect to Denominational...Persons have by Law in the Province at the Union." This provision would serve to protect Protestants in Quebec as much as (or more than) Catholics in...

...aforementioned provisos states: "Nothing in any such Law (passed by the Province to regulate education) shall prejudicially affect any Right or Privilege...Persons have by Law in the Province at the Union" (Blair 1986, 8). 4 Globe and Mail, 3 Sept. 1997, A45 Globe and Mail, 3 Sept. 1 997, Ai . 6 Globe and...