Canada’s House of Commons voted overwhelmingly to rescind Quebec’s provisional notice, which gave Quebec an opportunity to enforce Law 21 to ban headscarves in public.
“Law 21” was opposed by 174 members, headed by the ruling liberal party, while 142 members, most of them from the conservative party, supported it, to pass the decision to the Senate and then the Constitutional Court to issue a final decision to stop it.
Law 21, launched by the Quebec government in 2019, prohibits religious manifestations from all government employees, as authorities in Quebec defend the law banning religious symbols worn by government employees, such as teachers, police officers and prosecutors, by claiming that it is implemented by decree.
A judicial decree issued in 2019 to preserve secularism in the mainly francophone province.
