Firings begin over religious signifiers
Women who’ve been hired to work for the Centre de services scolaire des Mille‑Îles have been issued ultimatums to remove their hijab or leave their jobs, and other women in similar positions will soon have to choose between their work and their identity as the law is applied.
These women aren’t teachers – they’ve been working in after‑school programs and other support positions – but they’re now covered by the new law.
I’m sure that parents who’d relied on this service will be delighted to lose working hours because there’s no one left to look after their kids after school. At least the kids won’t be exposed to the sinister brainwashing of headscarves.
azrhey 13:47 on 2026-02-26 Permalink
in any article or speech about banning the hijab if you replace the “women wearing hijab” by “women wearing trousers” in public spaces, if it makes you sound like an old crummy person from 1925… then shut up about the hijab and stop telling women what they can and cannot wear in public.
jeather 13:57 on 2026-02-26 Permalink
So unlike for teachers, they don’t even get to keep the jobs they had as long as they never change anything?
Joey 14:10 on 2026-02-26 Permalink
@jeather the exemptions for existing employees are pretty narrow – you must have been employed before the bill was introduced (not before the law was adopted) and the exemption ends if you change your job or, more likely IMO, your job is reclassified somehow
jeather 14:43 on 2026-02-26 Permalink
I thought it was before the law was adopted. I do know you can’t change jobs.
The thing is, this is mostly hurting people in Montreal who aren’t the support for the CAQ anyhow. (Both employees and parents.)
Kevin 16:32 on 2026-02-26 Permalink
Hurting Montreal is the point, because Montreal proves ethnic nationalists wrong.
Ian 21:42 on 2026-02-26 Permalink
@jeather et al
“Quebec had included an exception for employees who were already working in school service centres, but that protection retroactively ended to when the bill was tabled.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-94-secularism-school-staff-9.7106299
@Kevin Cruelty is the point, because the ethnonationalists want everyone that they “other”to weigh their options and either voluntarily assimilate, or preferably, leave.
Kevin 22:50 on 2026-02-26 Permalink
Ian
Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics, and separatists study demographics and cry.
jeather 08:53 on 2026-02-27 Permalink
Yes, I was just saying I had understood it incorrectly, that the exception ended when the bill was adopted, not tabled.