Boards are the last instance of government that belongs to the English-speaking community, yet the CAQ government has demonstrated a complete disregard for our rights,” Joe Ortona says.
The Quebec government and several civil liberties groups will be arguing before the province's Court of Appeal starting today regarding a Superior Court decision last year, which upheld most, but not all of the province's controversial secularism law.
Bills 21 and 96 very questionable despite Legault s outrage, Julius Grey says montrealgazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from montrealgazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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A Quebec Superior Court judge has upheld most of the province’s law banning religious dress in some public-service functions but carved out an exception for the anglophone education system, to the dismay of Premier François Legault and other Quebec nationalists.
Justice Marc-André Blanchard ruled Tuesday that Quebec’s “Act respecting the laicity of the State,” better known as Bill 21, infringes fundamental rights to religious expression under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and its Quebec equivalent. He found Bill 21 has “cruel and dehumanizing” effects on the targeted people.
Opinion: Opponents of Bill 21 have reason for optimism montrealgazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from montrealgazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.