(Montreal Gazette) To the staccato of blaring horns and cheers from motorists on Ste-Catherine St., students and teachers formed a human chain outside Westmount High School on Wednesday morning to protest against Bill 21.
The row of people — about 200 — extended across most of the long block from Dorchester Blvd. to Hillside Lane. The protest ran from 8 to 9 a.m., with the start of the school day pushed back to 9:30 a.m. instead of 8:40.
The teachers said they were standing up for fundamental rights that the proposed law on state secularism violates.
“As teachers we teach our students not to be silent in the face of bullying. We will not be silent in the face of government bullying,” said science teacher Deborah Fairchild.
