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Justice Minister Sean Fraser tabled new legislation Friday introducing four Criminal Code offences, including one that would make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbols. The full text of the bill won’t be available until later today. If passed, the legislation would target symbols used …
Read More »Quebec bill would extend religious symbols ban to school support workers, force students to uncover faces
The Quebec government has put forward a bill that would extend the province’s ban on the wearing of religious symbols to support staff in schools, and prohibit students from having their faces covered. If passed, the legislation would extend the ban to all staff in public schools and school service centres, not …
Read More »After religious symbols law, Quebec eyes ban on public prayer: Where the province is headed on secularism
After the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government tabled its secularism bill, Premier François Legault recorded a video address that intended to reassure people who felt the proposed legislation was going too far. “I feel like saying ‘finally,'” the premier said in French with a joyful tone in the video released …
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