(CBC) Quebec’s Court of Appeal has refused to suspend the province’s controversial ban on religious symbols, even while acknowledging it causes “irreparable harm” to those affected.
The province’s top court was ruling on a request to stay sections of the Laicity Act, or Bill 21, pending a ruling on its constitutionality.
In a 2-1 decision issued Thursday afternoon, the court said the law should be allowed to stand until the challenges are heard in Quebec Superior Court.
The law is being challenged with four separate lawsuits, three of which are expected to be heard together in October 2020.
