13 February 2019

Religious profiling? Quebec plays blame game over school survey

Finger-pointing intensifies over questionnaire sent out to school principals last fall.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/quebec-government-surveyed-schools-about-religious-symbols

Quebec’s Education Ministry sent a detailed questionnaire to school principals across the province last fall seeking information about religious symbols and requests for reasonable accommodation.
The questionnaire, drawn up in June 2018 while the Liberals were in power, was sent out two months before the later request by ministry officials — now working under a Coalition Avenir Québec government — sparked their own controversy by phoning school boards asking for information about staff who wear religious symbols.
The revelation sparked a war of words between the current Minister of Education, Jean-François Roberge, and the previous minister, Sébastien Proulx, who called separate news conferences to blame each other for dabbling in the issue and letting fly accusations of religious profiling.


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