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QUEBEC — The province should create a liaison office to better understand today’s English-speaking Quebecers and help rebuild bridges with a community that’s feeling ignored, misunderstood and discriminated against, the Quebec Community Groups Network told the education minister on Thursday.

“You could do it informally, you could do it by legislation, there are different ways of doing it,” QCGN director general Sylvia Martin-Laforge later elaborated with the Montreal Gazette. “Is it a political office, an administrative office … We’re prepared to sit with government to examine what options there would be to facilitate our insertion into policy-making in Quebec.”

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Too often, anglophones are ignored when it comes time to draft legislation that directly affects them, the QCGN told the committee studying Bill 86, the government’s proposed school board reform.

The bill would eliminate province-wide school board elections and replace elected councils of commissioners, which currently oversee school board operations, with school councils of 16 non-remunerated members.