NEWS: Quebec Government Plans to Ban Religious Symbols in Public Buildings

Quebec’s government plans to amend its charter of rights and freedoms and ban most religious signs and symbols from public institutions such as daycare centres, public schools, hospitals, clinics, and other government buildings, Sun News reports.

The religious freedom of minorities is really threatened on all fronts nowadays.

The article continues to report that all health workers, public-school teachers, and public daycare workers will have to leave their religious symbols at home when they go to work. But, as if by a coincidence, the government has no intention of removing symbols of Quebec’s Christian heritage. In other words, the crosses at the National Assembly and at the top of Montreal’s Mount Royal will stay in place.

So what might seem as an attempt to separate state from religion is really only about implementing a state dress-code. The symbols of government will still send the message that Canada is a Christian nation.

(Photo by Wladyslaw of the government-owned cross at Montreal’s Mount Royal.)