(CBC) The Quebec government is requesting that Supreme Court Justice Mahmud Jamal recuse himself from hearing the challenge to the province’s secularism law because he was board president for one of the plaintiffs.
In letters sent to the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada, the attorney general of Quebec, the Mouvement laïque québécois, as well as Pour les droits des femmes du Québec — a women’s group that has lobbied for anti-trans policies — argue Jamal’s partiality in the case.
From 2006 to 2019, Jamal was on the board of directors for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), which along with the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), filed a legal challenge on June 17, 2019, in Quebec Superior Court to stay the application of the secularism law and declare it invalid.
