Overview
- The bill, expected to be tabled Thursday, would prohibit prayer rooms in universities and CEGEPs and restrict public prayer, with defined exceptions.
- It would extend the ban on religious symbols to staff across the education system, from public and subsidized daycares to CEGEPs, universities and private schools.
- Post-secondary students would be barred from wearing full face coverings such as the niqab, and face-uncovering rules would be expanded across the daycare network.
- Public institutions would be barred from using imagery that includes religious symbols, and subsidized daycares could not offer menus based exclusively on a religious tradition, such as halal-only.
- Roughly 50 subsidized private religious schools could face new funding conditions, including limits on teaching religion during classroom hours, and the government is weighing the notwithstanding clause to deter Charter challenges.