The Quebec government says it will ban religious symbols in the province’s daycare centres.
Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge says there is a “broad consensus” that Quebecers want secularism to be strengthened.
The announcement follows a recommendation made this summer by a committee tasked with advising the province on how to enhance secularism. The committee had called for the ban to be extended to daycares.
Quebec has already banned public sector workers in positions of authority, such as teachers and judges, from wearing religious symbols on the job.
That’s something you can argue in court, but it doesn’t stop you from the hassle and it doesn’t stop the chilling effect that a law like that could cause. I don’t know what you’re actually disagreeing with me about.
Argue what in court? How to wear a rug?
You can argue that your prayer mat is a yoga mat. I still don’t understand what your issue with my comment is.
And I still don’t understand how you made the leap from clothing to prayer mats.
Because of the quote from the article I included wherein he talks about banning prayer in public places.