The Quebec government is creating a committee to make recommendations on how to strengthen secularism in the province.
Announced Monday morning, the committee will study whether Quebec’s secularism law, Bill 21, is being respected.
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The government says it will also document alleged religious infiltration of Quebec institutions.
The committee will analyze measures in place elsewhere in the world to reinforce state secularism, and will deliver a report by Aug. 20.
Quebec has already announced it plans to table new legislation to strengthen the province’s secularism rules, which ban public employees like teachers and police officers from wearing religious symbols on the job.
The government has suggested it may extend the ban on religious symbols to school staff other than teachers.
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