10 April 2019

Cops could enforce Bill 21, minister says, then backtracks

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/cops-could-enforce-bill-21-minister-says-as-legault-plays-coy

QUEBEC — With his ministers saying the police or the courts will be responsible for applying Quebec’s secularism bill, Premier François Legault stayed vague — saying only that the government will take the necessary means for the law to be respected.

Following reports of possible acts of civil disobedience emerging following the tabling last week of Bill 21, Public Security MInister Geneviève Guilbault sparked a controversy Tuesday when she said police would ultimately be responsible for enforcing the legislation.

That means, in theory, they could be sent into a school board to force it to apply the law which states newly hired teachers cannot wear religious symbols ...

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