Banning Religious Clothing? The Quebec Charter of Secular Values: What’s It All About?

Banning Religious Clothing? The Quebec Charter of Secular Values: What’s It All About?

5:30 pm – 7 pm
Wednesday, November 6

U of T Multi-Faith Centre
596 Spadina Avenue, Room KP 113 (1st Floor)

Join Prof. Benjamin Berger, Osgoode Law School, Prof. Ruth Marshall, Study of Religion, U of T, Prof. Simone Chambers, Pol. Sci., U of T, Ayesha Valliani, Grad Student, Study of Religion, U of T, in a moderated discussion of the Quebec Charter of Values with Prof. Pamela Klassen, Director, Religion in the Public Sphere programme, U of T.

Explore issues of state neutrality and religious accommodation vis a vis the proposed legislation of the Quebec’s Charter of Values. The proposed Charter includes banning public sector workers, including teachers and all civil servants from wearing “ostentatious” religious symbols. This includes: hijabs, turbans, and large crosses.

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