(CBC) Quebec’s education minister said Friday the government is considering expanding its ban on religious symbols to include daycare supervisors and other school aides.
Bernard Drainville told Radio-Canada’s Tout un matin he was concerned that there are some school staff members who are in positions of authority but are not currently subject to the government’s religious symbols ban.
“We’re thinking about it,” Drainville said. He declined to offer details, however.
In the wake of a report that found teachers at Bedford elementary school in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges brought religious ideas into the classroom and contributed to a toxic environment, Drainville promised to introduce new legislation to strengthen secularism in the province’s schools.
