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.

  • mrdown@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The argument for it is to remove hate and division.

    Canada has religious harmony for long time there were little to no division. Those restrictions of the right to wear a sign that mean someone to a person but is not used to convert other to a religion will only cause more hate since those people will feel discriminated. Being able to display a sign with no one telling you that you shouldn’t wear it is a show of tolerance The idea that a kid will be influenced by a hijab or a cross is also total bullshit