Quebec's attorney general filed a notice of appeal Friday regarding the Superior Court decision on April 20, which upheld most, but not all of the province's controversial secularism law enacted under the Coalition Avenir Québec government. In that ruling, Justice Marc-André Blanchard declared that the most contentious parts of the law — the religious symbols ban for many government employees — can't be applied to English school boards. Not long after the decision was handed down, Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette, the architect of Bill 21, said the province planned to appeal. "The Quebec nation has made the choice of secularism," said Jolin-Barrette in the statement. We will spare no effort to defend this important law for Quebec."

Source: CBC News June 04, 2021 23:13 UTC