Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging Quebec’s incoming premier to reflect carefully before using the notwithstanding clause to enforce a law that would prohibit public employees from wearing religious symbols such as a hijab or kippa.
François Legault has promised to implement such a ban on workers in positions of authority, including judges, prosecutors and police officers, as well as teachers.
“The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is there to protect our rights and freedoms, obviously,” Trudeau said Wednesday.
He said he believes the state should not “tell a woman what she can or cannot wear.”
State shouldn’t tell women what to wear, Trudeau says as Quebec promises ban on religious symbols
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