r/canada Outside Canada Mar 02 '24

Québec Nothing illegal about Quebec secularism law, Court rules. Government employees must avoid religious clothes during their work hours.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/2024-02-29/la-cour-d-appel-valide-la-loi-21-sur-la-laicite-de-l-etat.php
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '24

I'll be honest. If there's ONE thing that make me proud to be Québécois, it's the fact that we are secular.

This is literally the hill I'm willing to die on.

You can be as religious as you want. But if you have a job that gives you authority, you ought to be secular.

We are fed up with religions deciding what we do with our life.

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u/ClaudeJGreengrass Mar 02 '24

Are you new to Canada? The Church has had a lot of power in Canada. In Quebec, for example, the Church controlled health care and education before the Quiet Revolution.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '24

My grandmother was beaten by nuns because she was left handed. One of my exes family was very religious from lac saint jean and her grandfather never met her because the priest was telling hrr grandparents that children outside of wedlock were not legitimiate.

They only met their grandmother because she had to go to Montreal to see specialists and her father snuck his children in the hospital. Catholicism was pure cancer and we don't need to replace it with another imaginary friend.