US EditionQuebec Committee Recommends Extending Religious Symbols Ban to Daycare Workers
The committee's 50 recommendations include banning religious symbols for daycare staff and proposing municipalities regulate religious practices to uphold secularism in Quebec.
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Quebec committee recommends extending religious symbols ban to daycare workers
With just over a year to go before the next provincial election, secularism is back at the forefront of Quebec politics. A report released Tuesday, commissioned by the Legault government, proposes, among other things, to extend the ban on wearing religious symbols to educators and management staff in early childhood centers (CPEs) and subsidized daycare […]
The recommendation emanates from the Study Committee on Compliance with the Principles of the Law on the Secularity of the State and Religious Influences.
QUEBEC — A little more than a year before the next provincial election, secularism returns to the foreground in Quebec politics. A report tabled on Tuesday, and commissioned by the Legault government, proposes, among other things, to extend the ban on the wearing of religious signs to educators and management staff of early childhood centres (ECCs) and subsidized day care centres. However, the tufted report of nearly 300 pages suggests a clause …
Quebec committee says government should extend religious symbols ban to daycares
MONTREAL — The Quebec government should phase out public funding of religious private schools and extend the religious symbols ban to daycare workers, says a committee tasked with advising the province on how to strengthen secularism.
A little more than a year before the next provincial election, secularism is likely to return to the foreground in Quebec politics. A report tabled on Tuesday, and commissioned by the Legault government, proposes, among other things, to extend the ban on the wearing of religious signs to educators and management staff in early childhood centres (ECCs) and subsidized day care centres. However, the nearly 300-page report suggests a clause of acqui…
A little more than a year before the next provincial election, secularism is likely to return to the foreground in Quebec politics. A report tabled on Tuesday, and commissioned by the Legault government, proposes, among other things, to extend the ban on the wearing of religious signs to educators and management staff in early childhood centres (ECCs) and subsidized day care centres. However, the nearly 300-page report suggests a clause of acqui…
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