Bill 21 explained to stubborn peoplekind
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Provisions of the Bill
Bill 21 provides that laicity is based on four principles: the separation of state and religions, religious neutrality of the state, equality of all citizens, and freedom of conscience and religion. (Id.)
Chapter 2 of the Bill speaks to the prohibition of religious symbols, while chapter 3 specifies services during the provision of which workers are required to uncover their faces. (Id. § 6.) Chapter 2 states that personnel listed in schedule 2 are prohibited from wearing religious symbols while at work. (Id.) This includes commissioners appointed by the government, lawyers under the authority of the government, peace officers exercising their functions mainly in Quebec, and educators working in Quebec public schools, among others. However, this prohibition does not apply to certain public-sector workers who held their positions at the time of the Bill’s introduction.
Chapter 3 provides that personnel listed in schedules 1 and 2 must carry out their tasks with their faces unveiled. (Id. ch. III; see also id. scheds. 1 & 2.)
Similarly, those expecting to receive services from the listed personnel must likewise have their faces uncovered for identification purposes. (Id.)
https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2019-08-06/canada-new-bill-prohibits-religious-symbols-for-public-sector-workers-in-quebec/
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EXPLANATORY NOTES
The purpose of this Act is to affirm the laicity of the State and to
set out the requirements that follow from it.
To that end, the Act provides that the laicity of the State is based
on four principles: the separation of State and religions, the religious
neutrality of the State, the equality of all citizens, and freedom of
conscience and freedom of religion.
Parliamentary, government and
judicial institutions are bound to adhere to all these principles in
pursuing their missions, and State laicity requires that all persons
have the right to lay institutions and lay public services. However,
with respect to judges of the Court of Québec, the Human Rights
Tribunal, the Professions Tribunal and the municipal courts, as well
as presiding justices of the peace, responsibility for establishing rules
translating the requirements of State laicity and for ensuring their
implementation is assigned to the Conseil de la magistrature.
The Act proposes to prohibit certain persons from wearing
religious symbols while exercising their functions. However, the
prohibition does not apply to certain persons holding positions at
the time the bill is introduced, subject to the conditions specified by
the Act.
Under the Act, personnel members of a body must exercise their
functions with their face uncovered, and persons who present
themselves to receive a service from such a personnel member must
have their face uncovered when doing so is necessary to allow their
identity to be verified or for security reasons. Persons who fail to
comply with that obligation may not receive the service.
However,
those obligations do not apply to persons whose face is covered for
reasons of health or a handicap, or because of the requirements tied
to their functions or to the performance of certain tasks.
In addition, the Act amends the Charter of human rights and
freedoms to specify that persons must maintain proper regard for
State laicity in exercising their fundamental freedoms and rights.
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The Act’s provisions prevail over those of any subsequent Act,
unless expressly stated otherwise. The Act must not be interpreted as
requiring an institution to remove or alter an immovable, or movable
property adorning an immovable, nor as affecting toponymy, or the
name of or name used by an institution. The Act also grants ministers
powers to verify compliance with the measures it sets out.
The Act has effect despite certain provisions of the Charter of
human rights and freedoms and the Constitution Act, 1982.
Lastly, the Act contains consequential amendments and various
interpretative, transitional and final provisions.
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