Groups seeking to suspend Quebec secularism law granted leave to appeal
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MONTREAL — Quebec’s highest court has agreed to hear an appeal on behalf of groups seeking to suspend the central parts of the province’s secularism law.
Catherine McKenzie, a lawyer for the applicants, said Quebec Court of Appeal Chief Justice Nicole Duval Hesler did not give a reason for granting leave to appeal in a ruling from the bench today.
Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21, prohibits some public sector workers, including teachers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols at work.
Lawyers representing a national Muslim organization, a civil liberties group and a university student who wears an Islamic head scarf, had asked for an immediate stay of the central components of the law while their full legal challenge is heard.
