(CBC) The interim chair for the Western Québec School Board says the school board made a mistake in hiring Fatemeh Anvari, the Chelsea, Que., elementary school teacher who had to be removed from her position under Quebec’s secularism law because she wears a hijab.
Wayne Daly said in an interview Tuesday that his school board was not aware Anvari taught with the hijab and somehow made a mistake in hiring her.
Daly said the school board is against Quebec’s secularism law — also known as Bill 21 — but says the board wasn’t trying to make a statement. It simply did not know Anvari wore a hijab.
