(CBC) A week after tabling the legislation, opposition to the Coalition Avenir Québec government’s plan to ban certain public workers from wearing religious symbols is growing more organized — and more vitriolic.
Politicians in Montreal’s west end at the federal, provincial and municipal level came together Friday to speak out against the ban.
Hampstead Mayor William Steinberg told a news conference the ban amounts to “ethnic cleansing.”
“This is an attempt to remove those who practice minority religions, leaving only non-believers and Christians in Quebec,” he said.
The remarks prompted Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette to appeal for calm, as he did last Thursday after tabling the bill.
