(CBC) Edmonton city councillors are denouncing legislation in Quebec that restricts civil servants from wearing religious symbols as discriminatory and racist.
“Bill 21 is an offence to civil rights,” Mayor Don Iveson said during an executive committee meeting on Thursday. “It is troubling, deeply troubling to all freedom-loving people.”
Quebec’s controversial law forbids civil sector employees in authority positions from wearing religious symbols at public institutions.
Iveson called it a “blatant disregard in the values of multiculturalism.”
The comments came after councillors heard from a dozen Edmonton residents who spoke at Thursday’s meeting.
