(CBC) The Canadian wing of an international Jewish organization wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to send government lawyers to join the legal fight against Quebec’s secularism law.
B’nai Brith Canada published an open letter Thursday after a Quebec Superior Court justice denied a request to freeze the most controversial parts of the law, formerly known as Bill 21.
The bill blocks civil servants in positions of authority, such as teachers, police officers and crown prosecutors, from wearing religious symbols, such as hijabs or kippahs, on the job.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association are challenging the law on constitutional grounds — a task made more challenging by the Quebec government’s invocation of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause.
