(CBC) The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) has filed its legal challenge of Quebec’s controversial law that bars teachers and principals from wearing religious symbols.
The legal challenge, filed Thursday by the law firm Power Law on behalf of the EMSB and parent commissioners Pietro Mercuri and Mubeenah Mughal, argues the law contravenes sections of the Constitution that protect minority language educational rights and guarantees the equality of men and women.
While the secularism law, also known as Bill 21, invokes the notwithstanding clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that clause does not apply to Section 23, which protects the education rights of anglophones in Quebec and francophones in the rest of the country, nor to Section 28, which protects equality between women and men.
