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Quebec’s secularism law

By AFP
April 21, 2021

Montreal: A Quebec court on Tuesday upheld most of a controversial secularism law -- excepting English-speaking teachers, for example -- that prohibits public servants from wearing religious symbols at work in the Canadian province. Quebec in 2019 legislated the ban on wearing a crucifix, yarmulke or hijab, as well as enshrined into law a previously adopted rule that denies government services to people wearing face veils.