(CBC) Around 9:30 on Monday morning, on the 17th floor of a drab, black and grey building in Montreal, some of the most basic principles of Canadian democracy will go on trial.
That’s when lawyers from several civil society groups will begin arguing before a Quebec Superior Court judge that the province’s Laicity Act is unconstitutional.
In order to do so, they will be raising a series of questions as fundamental as, what rights do Canadians have? What is the constitution? And what kind of democracy does Canada have?
“There are a number of issues that will be raised that will be of interest to constitutional watchers across the country,” said Robert Leckey, a constitutional expert and dean of the law faculty at Montreal’s McGill University.
