Family Minister Nicole Leger: Medical Advice

The Canadian Press Dept: The pregnancy involves serious health risks, and under medical advice I have been ordered to rest for at least a few months, said Ms. Hivon, the junior minister of public health and youth protection, according to Globe and Mail. Family Minister Nicole Leger, in an interview with The Canadian Press, said she wanted changes to the language law known as Bill 101 to include daycare centres, suggesting that the provisions of the law that restrict access to the English-language school system should also apply to daycare services. On Thursday, Ms. De Courcy said that would not happen and veronique Hivon, one of the rising stars in the PQ government, announced she was stepping down from cabinet in order to bring a risky pregnancy to term. The resignation was the second setback of the day. The first: The minister responsible for the French Language Charter, Diane De Courcy, had to calm angry immigrant parents by backtracking on suggestions that they would be forced to send their children to French-speaking daycare centres. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.