The Quebec Court of Appeal will not allow the English Montreal School Board to hire teachers who wear religious symbols while an appeal from a lower court decision on Quebec’s secularism law is pending. In progress.
The school board had requested that a Superior Court decision exempting English-language school boards from the law, which prohibits the wearing of religious symbols by teachers and other government employees in positions of authority, come into effect immediately.
Judge Frédéric Bachand wrote in his ruling today that the school board has failed to prove that it would suffer serious or irreparable harm if the law, known as Bill 21, was applied while the government appeal is underway.
He found that the school board’s assertion that enforcement of the bill would suppress minority cultures went too far and did not prove that enforcement would harm integration and integration. student education.
Although he found that the school board had shown the bill would make it more difficult to hire staff at a time when it faced a shortage of qualified teachers, the government was able to demonstrate that there was teachers available.
In a statement, the school board said it was disappointed with today’s decision.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on November 9, 2021.
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