In Canada’s Quebec, Indigenous people continue to fight French law
Montreal, CanadaReuters A sweeping law adopted by Quebec on Tuesday to promote French usage is elevating already simmering tensions with indigenous groups, who see the move as an imposition and have vowed to fight it. Bill 96, passed by a majority of Quebec legislators, sets stricter rules to enforce French usage in the province, adding […]
CANADA: WHAT IS QUEBEC’S BILL 21 DEBATE ABOUT – AND WILL A VOTE END IT?
JAX JACOBSEN, of Religion News Service, explains what’s behind a controversial bill which would ban public-sector workers in positions of authority from wearing any sort of religious symbolism at work – as well as religious face coverings for people receiving services from government bodies…