The introduction of legislation in Canada's Quebec province to ban public sector employees from wearing religious symbols during work hours targets Muslim women who wear hijabs or other head coverings, critics say
A sign opposing religious attire is displayed during protests by groups La Meute and Storm Alliance in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada November 25, 2017.
"It is unthinkable to me that in a free society we would legitimise discrimination against citizens based on their religion," Trudeau told reporters in Halifax on Thursday. A ban on full face coverings on anyone giving or receiving public services in Quebecpassed in 2017, but was suspended by a Canadian judge last June and remains in legal limbo.
Like France, which passed a ban on veils, crosses and other religious symbols in schools in 2004, Quebec has struggled to reconcile its secular identity with a growing Muslim population, many of them North African emigrants.
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