(Toronto Sun) Last week, a Quebec school teacher was removed from her classroom for wearing the hijab. Quebec’s controversial secularist law, Bill 21, prohibits religious symbols in public places. The law has many human rights activists and federal parliamentarians on edge.
MPs from both major parties of Canada recently spoke out against the law. Alberta Conservative MP Chris Warkentin said in a tweet that “if the government is free to limit religious freedom, it will take liberties to restrict other freedoms.” Quebec Liberal leader Dominique Anglade stated that “we cannot be in favour of a situation like this; there’s no question about that.”
Bill 21, which came into effect in 2019, prohibits people in positions of authority from displaying religious symbols in public places.
