Quebec's National Assembly continues, focus shifts to religious symbols bill

The title of this submission broke the site guidelines quite badly. They ask: &quot;<i>Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don&#x27;t editorialize.</i>&quot; We take away submission privileges from accounts that do that, so please don&#x27;t do that.<p>Submitted title was &quot;Québec will ban hijab &amp; other religious symbols to be worn by govt. employees.&quot;

The title of this link is so grossly sensationalized. Nothing has been set yet, and Quebec hasn&#x27;t banned anything. Politicians just proposed a bill and will likely face steep opposition since this sort of thing has happened before.<p>In Canada, everyone must wear helmets when operating a motorcycle; riders who wore turbans were exempt from this rule. A bill was proposed to ratify the exemption, ppl cited discrimination and the bill was shot down.

It&#x27;s disgusting, and most of the rest of Canada is against it.<p>The part that really bugs me about it is that Christian symbols are allowed- because that&#x27;s &quot;a part of our culture&quot;.

&gt; The Coaliton Avenir Québec government wants to pass a bill today that will bar public-school teachers, government lawyers, judges and police officers from wearing religious symbols while at work.<p>&gt; The bill also invokes the notwithstanding clause in an effort to spare it from court challenges about its constitutionality.

If Quebec wants to ban &quot;religious symbols&quot; for its govt. employees, then they must affirmatively put forth a strict &quot;this is what _everyone_ must wear&quot; uniform similar to grade school&#x2F;military codes. I personally wouldn&#x27;t have a problem with that, but I wonder if that could pass through the political process (hence this backdoor bill shenanigans I suppose).