Declaring that while he was opposed to separate schools and did not want separate schools in the Province, he would be the first to ask for Jewish schools if the Protestants declined to cooperate, Peter Bercovitch, K.C., M.L.A., discussed the Quebec school situation at a dinner given in honor of himself and Joseph Cohen, M.L.A. for St. Lawrence, and Anatole Plante, M.L.A. for Mercier, on the eve of their departure to attend the opening of the Quebec legislature.
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