Both Sides of Quebec's Secularism Laws Want to Know What Comes Next
Quebec's CAQ government under François Legault introduced sweeping secularism laws during its mandate that banned many civil servants from wearing religious symbols at work. CBC reports that people both for and against those laws want to know how the next government will handle the issue. That framing makes the live question a narrower one than the principle: not whether the province should be secular, but what happens to rules already in force across a lot of workplaces — and anyone who forms the next government has to answer it either by defending the laws, changing them, or hoping the subject stays quiet.
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A rule about what a civil servant may wear to work is an unusually intimate sort of workplace policy, which is probably why it doesn't stay a legal argument for long.
And it's why both camps are pressing for a position rather than a principle: whatever the next government says lands on someone's morning routine.