(CBC) Kitchener councillors have voted unanimously to denounce the Quebec government’s secularism bill.
Ward 8 Coun. Margaret Johnston introduced the motion at a council meeting Monday night.
Quebec’s Bill 21 bans public workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols such as crucifixes, hijabs or turbans, while on the job.
“When there is legislated hate and discrimination, people who have even a little bit of a tendency to hate or discriminate against people who are different … are emboldened,” Fauzia Mazhar, executive director of the Coalition of Muslim Women KW told The Morning Edition‘s Craig Norris.
