This has nothing to do with student protests. It's about people who
their faces for religious reasons. As the article points out, Quebec
already has rules forbidding government employees or other authority
figures from wearing religious garb like hijabs or kippahs or large
crosses when they're on the job: this is an expansion of the same concept.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/quebec-to-expand-religious-symbol-ban-force-students-to-uncover-faces/
For what it's worth, I understand that these rules were inspired by laws
in France that are very similar. (That's a bit surprising in that the governments of France and Quebec are not otherwise terribly close.)
I wonder if we'll see court challenges to this or if the good people of
Quebec will just quietly comply?
I can't help but cheer the fact that women in burkas will be
considerably more scarce. I feel like I'm looking at a slave when I see
someone like that: a person with severe limitations on what they can do
or say and who they can associate with.
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Rhino
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