It may well make it all the way up to Canada's Supreme Court.

The province already invoked the Notwithstanding Clause to ignore the ruling, unless this is a new law.

and it looks like they are using the notwithstanding clause to include this addition so, yes, it will not go before the courts, unfortunately.

From the article:

"The Legault government is thus strengthening its Bill 21 on secularism, which prohibits the wearing of religious symbols by government employees in positions of authority, including judges, police officers, and teachers.

Once again, Quebec is shielding its law from legal challenges with the notwithstanding clause."

But small crosses are OK.

Unless this is a new law, it was overturned by the Canadian Supreme Court, but the provincial government invoked to the Notwithstanding Clause to ignore the ruling.

France has long outlawed any display of religious symbols by educators. No cross pendants for teach, comprenez-voux ?

Publicly funded institutions should be exclusively secular institutions.

Large groups doing their praying in the street..happening in Europe too

I can see a pastor, rabbi, priest etc. speaking at a protest being used as an excuse to shut it down.


If it's praying just to put on a big public display of religious fervor, I say treat it as any "street takeover". But the challenge is drawing the line between the two.

I rather live under this than the Christian Nationalist bullshit the state of Texas is shoving down my throat on a daily basis.

My plan to one day move to Québec remains resolute!

Both are tyrany.

and wants to limit others.

The thing in Quebec applies to all religions. And it doesn't ban individuals in their own l8fe doing what they want.

It does not take away drivers license or passports from people who got them legitimately:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kansas-revoked-drivers-licenses-1700-transgender-residents-rcna262120

https://www.them.us/story/trump-administration-passports-trans-nonbinary-x-marker-invalid

It does not profile people using driver license ids:

https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-collects-gender-change-requests

It does not promote any religion or creed above others:

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/24/ten-commandments-texas-schools-senate-bill-10/

It does not strip women of their rights to their own bodies:

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/25/texas-trigger-law-abortion/

Strips kids of medical rights:

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/02/texas-transgender-health-care-minors-kids-mental-therapy/

Strips free speech rights:

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/06/texas-drag-show-ban-appeal/

Put freaking bounties on people’s heads for taking a pee:

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/odessa-tx-just-put-10000-bounties

Undo civil rights protections:

https://www.advocate.com/politics/arlington-texas-lgbtq-discrimination-vote

And more and more and more of this shit every freaking year…

Québec sounds like a dream come true to this hell I have to live through.

Especially child care. But I think it’s a small number religiously affiliated daycares and schools that hire people wearing something like that anyways.

The street prayers sound like a nuisance, but like any form of peaceful protest, if there’s a permit, I don’t see the problem.

I don’t care about headscarves or turbans. Neither should be disruptive in most situations, but I can see where a head covering could interfere with a safety helmet.

So many of these can be handled on a case by case basis, which is why I’m typically not in favor of such blanket bans, even if I’m generally sympathetic to the reasoning behind them and personally would prefer a more secular society.

much of a problem with it.