Commentary Perhaps it will take Quebec schoolchildren imitating their counterparts of a century ago to restore sanity to adults responsible for the disgrace of a hijab-wearing teacher being removed from a classroom. Little else seems capable of lifting the veil of political obtuseness obscuring the real-world infamy of the province’s law banning the wearing of “religious” garb in some public sector workplaces. Only last week, so-called Bill 21’s perniciousness was on public display with the ignominious “reassigning” of a Grade 3 teacher, Fatemeh Anvari, from her classroom at an elementary school in western Quebec. Her mistreatment illuminated the reductio ad absurdum injustice of punishing a qualified teacher by exiling her to do bureaucratic make-work administering—you truly couldn’t make this up—inclusion and diversity policies. Yet the good and the great who lead Quebec in the National Assembly, or stand as its members of Parliament, managed little better than muted throat-clearing at …
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