EMSB gets feds to fund fight on hat law
In another school board related story, the EMSB is getting federal funds to fight the secularism law. And boy is Simon Jolin-Barrette mad.
That law is bound to be tested. François Legault knows this, even if his attack poodle doesn’t.
Update: The EMSB has renounced the funds offered to it by the feds under the Court Challenges Program.
qatzelok 08:11 on 2020-02-06 Permalink
I hope they get permission to stop teaching about the lie that is “evolution.”
What an affront to our Lord. and Second Amendment rights. : )
Chris 09:40 on 2020-02-06 Permalink
This CTV paragraph bugs me: “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly said he doesn’t agree with a government telling people how to dress…”
They’re not actually quoting Trudeau, but…
If he really thinks that, why hasn’t he got rid of Criminal Code section 174, where there the government literally tells people how to dress? “Every one who, without lawful excuse, is nude in a public place, is guilty of an offense punishable on summary conviction”. And that’s a _criminal_ offense, not just a firing offense!
Government tells us how to dress in other instances too. Cooks must cover their hair. Construction workers must have boots. Motorcyclists must have helmets. etc. etc.
Clearly Trudeau thinks governments _sometimes_ should tell people how to dress, just not in this instance.
Kate 14:13 on 2020-02-06 Permalink
Chris, as is your wont you’re mixing apples and oranges and making a mess. For whatever reason – and it’s more deeply rooted even than religion – we’re widely agreed, across nations and faiths and cultures, that people need to be clothed in public. You can discount that one. Justin Trudeau is not oppressing us by heading a government which includes, in one or two lines, the requirement that people not be nude in public.
The other matters are for safety and cleanliness as you well know. Again, we’re mostly agreed that my right to wear my hair loose is reasonably curtailed by your desire not to find hairs in your food.
But the secularity law doesn’t touch on either of these things. There’s no longtime, well understood common belief that it’s important not to show signs of one’s faith. In a city absolutely studded with crosses and saints’ names, that’s even more ridiculous. That law is absolutely CAQ pandering to people who’ve never met a Muslim in their life and are panicking from things on TV. Some day it will be repealed and everyone then will say “what WERE they thinking?!”