(CBC) The Quebec Court of Appeal has upheld the province’s controversial secularism law in a ruling on challenges to the law’s constitutionality released Thursday afternoon.
The heavily anticipated judgment is 290 pages long and quashes a previous exception, made by Superior Court Judge Marc-André Blanchard, that allowed English schools to employ teachers wearing religious symbols — such as a head covering — while on the job.
A panel of Appeal Court judges heard arguments from civil liberties groups challenging the law, as well as from the government, in November 2022.
Premier François Legault’s government had appealed the Superior Court decision, rendered in April 2021, that upheld most of the law but made the exception for English schools.
