Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante spoke out Thursday about threats directed against her over her stance on the province's secularism bill. The threats, including some of physical violence, are in messages posted online or sent directly to her social media accounts. The debate surrounding the proposed legislation has been divisive since the bill was tabled last month. On Monday, Plante and Lionel Perez, the opposition leader at Montreal city hall, issued a joint motion denouncing Bill 21. The April 2 dispatch called the Quebec's proposed legislation a good way of ensuring separation of church and state.

Source: Huffington Post April 18, 2019 21:00 UTC