(CityNews) The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) is questioning the legitimacy of a Quebec committee report that proposes, among other things, that the province extend its religious symbols ban to daycare workers.
“What we’re really looking at is recommendations from the government to take away the rights of religious people and to impose a uniformity on them,” said NCCM CEO Stephen Brown at a press conference in Montreal Wednesday.
Brown is accusing the committee of failing to interview institutions of repute that take care of, and are made up of, religious individuals. He feels the report, which was commissioned by the Legault government, does not actually solve anything.
“This report says that it’s looking to protect secularism, which is bizarre because many of its recommendations go against the very principles of secularism itself,” Brown said.
