

Québécois here. I’m surprised by the positive reception here.
First because normally, anything about Québec policies on reddit (unless it’s on a Quebec-related sub) is received very negatively, and harshly so, while I may support, be neutral, or against but with understanding where it’s coming from. But that may be a Reddit-Lemmy difference. And that’s welcome. I don’t expect people to agree with everything Quebec does, but I do value reason.
Second, because this time, I’m very much against. I’m an atheist, antitheist even. But what would banning headscarves in daycare centers even achieve? Do you think children growing up will be convinced to become Muslim because their educators were veiled? And for the negative impacts:
- From what I see as a parent in Montreal, nearly half educators in anything daycare in the city are veiled. If they decide to stop working, it will have terrible economic effects.
- Veiled women being made to feel unwelcome, antognized and ostracized.

Oh. That government has been campaigning on this for years now. I didn’t even realize it would mean something different to the wider world. Of course it does. My bad. Yeah. It’s all about veiled women. It’s all very xenophobic, islamophobic.