Montreal’s largest school board has lost more than 100 support staff because they refused to remove religious symbols to comply with the province’s new secularism law.
The law, known as Bill 94, expanded a ban on wearing religious symbols, like crosses and hijabs, to include support staff workers in schools — lunchroom monitors and special education technicians, for example.
Several school service centres told Radio-Canada in February that dozens of staff had already been fired, suspended or decided to resign because of Bill 94.
Now, the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal (CSSDM), says it, too, has had to let staff go.
My understanding of Ontario law is that it prevents discrimination on protected grounds, like religion.
How did Quebec pass this law?
Quebec is allowed do discriminate for whatever reasaon and would probably use the not withstanding clause on this if it came to it.
Edit: My bad, they per-emptivly used the notwithstanding clause on this bill so they could discriminate. But they’ve discriminated before as well.
That’s wild.
It’s why some MPs are pushing for the notwithstanding clause to either be removed or extremely limited.