Category: Quebec religious symbols law

Quebec Religious Symbols Ban Will Apply to English Schools Until Appeal Decided

November 10, 2021
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The Quebec Court of Appeal will not allow the English Montreal School Board to hire teachers who wear religious symbols while an appeal of a lower court decision on Quebec’s secularism law is being decided. The school board had sought to have a Superior Court decision that exempted English-language school boards from the law, which…

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Quebec Court Upholds Most of Province’s Controversial Secularism Law

April 20, 2021
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MONTREAL—The Quebec Superior Court has largely upheld the province’s law that bans certain public sector workers from wearing religious symbols on the job. Justice Marc-Andre Blanchard did however rule that certain provisions of the law are unconstitutional as they pertain to English school boards. The judge also struck down a ban on members of the…

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Quebec Court Upholds Most of Province’s Controversial Secularism Law, Exempts English School Boards

April 20, 2021
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MONTREAL—The Quebec Superior Court has largely upheld the province’s law that bans certain public sector workers from wearing religious symbols on the job. Justice Marc-Andre Blanchard did however rule that certain provisions of the law are unconstitutional as they pertain to English school boards. The judge also struck down a ban on members of the…

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