October 30,2025
RED FM News Desk
The Quebec government has passed a law broadening the province’s ban on religious symbols to include anyone who interacts with students in schools.
The legislation also prohibits students from wearing face coverings, aiming to reinforce secularism in the education system.
Building on a 2019 secularism law that barred public employees in positions of authority—such as teachers, judges, and police officers—from wearing religious symbols, the new law extends the restriction to all school staff, including psychologists, janitors, and cafeteria workers, as well as non-employees who provide services to students, such as library volunteers.
The bill was introduced following a government investigation of a Montreal elementary school last year, which found that a group of teachers, many of North African descent, had imposed an autocratic style of management at the school.
The government has also pledged to extend the ban on religious symbols to daycare workers.
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