(CBC) The two civil liberties groups that mounted an early legal challenge to Quebec’s secularism law were at the Quebec Court of Appeal today making a second attempt to have parts of the law suspended while their challenge is considered.
When the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) and Canadian Civil Liberties Association launched their challenge June 17 — a day after the law was passed — they also filed a request for an injunction, a legal measure that would have frozen parts of the law while waiting for the courts to weigh in on the bigger constitutional question.
On July 18, a Quebec Superior Court judge refused to grant that injunction.
A few days later, the groups filed an appeal of the refusal.
