The Quebec government says it will ban religious symbols in the province’s daycare centres.

Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge says there is a “broad consensus” that Quebecers want secularism to be strengthened.

The announcement follows a recommendation made this summer by a committee tasked with advising the province on how to enhance secularism. The committee had called for the ban to be extended to daycares.

Quebec has already banned public sector workers in positions of authority, such as teachers and judges, from wearing religious symbols on the job.

  • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Seems reasonable

    Meanwhile in Ontario, right beside them, public funds still go to Catholic schools

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      What next remove religious names or part of people name like the word st aka saint?

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        5 days ago

        I’m not sure I follow your attempt to paint this as a slippery slope given that one thing is a person’s personal name, a part of their person, and the other is the state brandishing elements of religion.

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          I am showing how ridiculous this law is. It serve no benefits just hate and more division