(CBC) Opponents of Quebec’s secularism law — known as Bill 21 — argued before the province’s Court of Appeal Monday that the CAQ government went too far in pre-emptively invoking the constitutional notwithstanding clause in order to protect the law from court challenges.
The Quebec government and several civil liberties groups are presenting arguments about a Superior Court decision last year, which upheld most — but not all — of the province’s controversial secularism law.
Enacted under the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government in June 2019, the secularism law prohibits public school teachers, police officers, government lawyers and a host of other civil servants — and even some politicians — from wearing religious symbols at work.
