04 October 2019

Quebec hurtling toward religious symbols ban, which critics say would not only be discriminatory, but a nightmare to enforce

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebec-hurtling-towards-religious-symbols-ban-which-critics-say/?fbclid=IwAR2f9RcsNVvoy-3eOVvOe4qeEUVP8qqMjEUgdfFFaujxSBhgqrACcSJFwR4

Bouchera Chelbi, a schoolteacher who wears a Muslim headscarf, sat in the ornate salon rouge of the National Assembly and spilled her heart out to the legislators before her. Quebec’s plan to restrict teachers’ right to wear religious symbols, she said, was going to hurt.

“As a woman, I don’t accept that you dictate to me how I can dress,” she told the MNAs.

Ms. Chelbi’s comments were both pointed and remarkable: After six days of committee hearings into Quebec’s disputed legislation on religious symbols, she was the first and only teacher in a headscarf to address politicians about it

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