(Global News) Organizations trying to challenge Bill 21 won a small victory in court on Thursday.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), along with Ichrak Nourel Hak — a university student who wears a hijab — were granted leave to appeal a decision made in Superior Court a few weeks ago.
On July 18, Superior Court Judge Michel Yergeau rejected a request by the groups to have Quebec’s secularism law suspended.
Bill 21 bans the wearing of religious symbols by certain employees in the provincial civil service.
In court Thursday morning, the groups’ lawyers argued Bill 21 is causing immediate harm to minority groups in Quebec.
