Canada’s special envoy on combating antisemitism says Quebec’s law banning teachers and some other public?sector workers from wearing religious symbols at work is "discriminatory" and authorizes state interference in religion. Prof. Irwin Cotler, a former justice minister and attorney general, says the law that has come to be known as Bill 21 also breaches both Canada’s and Quebec’s charters of rights and freedoms. The secularism law provoked protests before the holiday break after Fatemeh Anvari, a Grade 3 teacher, was told she could no longer teach in a classroom because she wears a hijab. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said...
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