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Title: Quebec to bar public servants from wearing religious symbols
Post by: jmyrlefuller on March 29, 2019, 11:51:44 am
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47701221 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47701221)

A Canadian province has introduced legislation that would bar civil servants in positions of "authority" from wearing religious symbols at work. Bill 21 will prevent civil servants from wearing symbols such as head coverings like the kippah, turban, hijabs.

The center-right Coalition Avenir Quebec's bill covers judges, prosecutors, police officers, teachers and some other positions. Civil servants who currently wear religious symbols will be exempt from the bill. The CAQ was elected last autumn in part on pledges to restrict immigration and impose a secular charter. Opinion polls suggest support for a secular dress code among Quebecers.

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Title: Re: Quebec to bar public servants from wearing religious symbols
Post by: jmyrlefuller on March 29, 2019, 12:12:47 pm
I'm surprised that Quebec even elected conservatives to begin with. CAQ is the most conservative party in Quebec.
Title: Re: Quebec to bar public servants from wearing religious symbols
Post by: sneakypete on March 29, 2019, 12:25:20 pm
Deys jis to dam much ob dat freedum stuff goin round out dere!

Ho tol dem peep-pulls dey could hab day own O-pinions,anyways? Ho dey tink day arr,Oprah?
Title: Re: Quebec to bar public servants from wearing religious symbols
Post by: Fishrrman on March 29, 2019, 10:37:05 pm
"A Canadian province has introduced legislation that would bar civil servants in positions of "authority" from wearing religious symbols at work"

Will this prohibition include hijabs and other muslim head coverings that are intended to "symbolize" muslim womens' submission ...?
Title: Re: Quebec to bar public servants from wearing religious symbols
Post by: sneakypete on March 29, 2019, 11:19:00 pm
Quote from: Fishrrman on March 29, 2019, 10:37:05 pm
"A Canadian province has introduced legislation that would bar civil servants in positions of "authority" from wearing religious symbols at work"

Will this prohibition include hijabs and other muslim head coverings that are intended to "symbolize" muslim womens' submission ...?

@Fishrrman

One can only hope and be dissapointed.

We must NOT upset our Muslim Overlords.
Title: Re: Quebec to bar public servants from wearing religious symbols
Post by: The_Reader_David on March 30, 2019, 01:34:37 am
This misunderstands the nature of Jewish kippahs, Sikh turbans and the Islamic hijab.  They are not symbols, but observances incumbent upon pious adherents of those religions.  This will forbid public servants it covers from practicing their religions.