Politics · Canada · 6 hrs ago
Quebec education minister wants to ban religious symbols in schools
Quebec Education Minister Joël Arseneau says the province plans to ban schoolchildren from wearing religious symbols.
He called the plan non-negotiable when speaking to journalists on Wednesday.
The proposal follows the Parti Québécois campaign promise to expand Quebec’s secularism laws.
The party now leads a minority government in the province.
The timing of a bill has not been announced.
Quebec’s legislature is scheduled to resume on November 17.
The province already bars public-sector employees, including teachers, from wearing religious symbols, and that law is being challenged in the Supreme Court of Canada.
The existing law’s legal challenge is still underway.
Quebec’s new education minister wants to ban schoolchildren from wearing religious symbols.
Joël Arseneau said the plans for the ban are non-negotiable.
The Parti Québécois promised during the election campaign to broaden provincial secularism laws.
It is unclear when the government intends to introduce a bill.
A legal challenge to Quebec’s existing ban on public-sector employees wearing religious symbols is ongoing.
- Who
- Quebec Education Minister Joël Arseneau wants the ban.
- What
- Quebec plans to ban schoolchildren from wearing religious symbols.
- When
- Arseneau made the comments on Wednesday. The date for introducing a bill is unclear.
- Where
- Quebec.
- Why
- The Parti Québécois promised during the election campaign to broaden provincial secularism laws.
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The Parti Québécois promised to broaden provincial secularism laws.
Arseneau told journalists the plans for the ban are non-negotiable.
An association representing Muslims in Quebec was due to respond to Arseneau’s comments at a news conference.
The Quebec legislature is scheduled to resume sitting.
- Minister
- Joël Arseneau
- Proposed ban
- Schoolchildren wearing religious symbols
- Government
- Parti Québécois minority government
- Legislature resumes
- Nov. 17
- Legal challenge
- Quebec’s ban on public-sector employees wearing religious symbols is before the Supreme Court of Canada
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What people are saying
the plans for the ban are non-negotiable