(CBC) More than four years after a Quebec court judge refused to hear the case of a woman because she was wearing a hijab, the Conseil de la magistrature finally held a disciplinary hearing into the judge’s conduct.
In February 2015, Judge Eliana Marengo refused to hear the case of Montreal woman Rania El-Alloul.
El-Alloul was in court trying to get her impounded car back.
“In my opinion, you are not suitably dressed,” Marengo told El-Alloul at the time. She told her the court was a secular space, and no religious symbols should be worn by those before it.
Marengo compared the hijab to a hat and sunglasses, saying she wouldn’t hear a case from someone wearing those, either.
