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What's in Quebec's secularism bill: Religious symbols, uncovered faces and a charter workaround
We've highlighted key points in the bill, tabled on Thursday by the CAQ government
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-laicity-secularism-bill-1.5075547
The Quebec government has tabled its long-awaited secularism
bill, laying down proposed ground rules it says will ensure the
religious neutrality of the state.
Bill 21, entitled "An Act respecting the laicity of the State," is 16 pages long. Here are some key points and passages:
The preamble to the bill explains the Coalition Avenir Québec
government's motivation. The Quebec nation, it says, "has its own
characteristics, one of which is its civil law tradition, distinct
social values and a specific history that [has] led it to develop a
particular attachment to state laicity."
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