Bill 21

The Manitoba government is planning to recruit civil servants from Quebec who are concerned about a new law in the province banning religious symbols at work.

As lawyers defended the Quebec government's secularism law from a constitutional challenge in a Montreal court on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, the crucifix hanging over the province's legislative chamber in Quebec City was quietly removed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added his voice on Thursday, June 20, 2019, to the growing opposition to Quebec's new law prohibiting teachers, police officers and other public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols.

Feminist analyst Alexa Conradi says some Quebec legislators are operating under false assumptions that women who wear head coverings need saving.

The Quebec government's latest attempt to legislate on secularism could find its way into the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.

Quebec's secularism bill is a frontal attack on women's rights and primarily targets Muslims, the head of a major feminist organization said on Thursday, May 16, 2019, during the final day of legislative hearings into the proposed law.

The Quebec government's move to legislate on secularism will come at the expense of individual freedoms, Montreal's archbishop said on Thursday, May 16, 2019.

Hearings into Quebec's secularism bill veered off track on Thursday, May 9, 2019, when a former senator drew a connection between the Muslim head scarf, female genital mutilation and forced marriage.

A second prominent intellectual has told the Quebec government it is going down the wrong path with its secularism bill, saying there is no compelling reason to lump teachers among the public servants who'd be prevented from displaying their religious beliefs at work.

Quebec Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette says he disagrees with prominent critics who have described his government's religious symbols bill as discriminatory.

There are growing calls for a suburban Montreal mayor to apologize for comments last week equating the province's proposed secularism legislation to "ethnic cleansing."

Immigrants and visible minorities are noticing how some of the most significant pieces of legislation introduced by the Coalition Avenir Quebec government since it took power last October have something in common: the bills disproportionately affect them.

Quebec's proposed legislation banning religious symbols for some public servants is drawing criticism from one of the province's leading public intellectuals.

Quebec's decision to draft a bill that affects the rights of religious minorities but limits their ability to challenge the legislation suggests the Canadian court system is useless or illegitimate, the Canadian Bar Association said on Thursday, April 4, 2019.