Critics call Quebec’s proposed ban on religious headwear ‘Putinesque’

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/parti-quebecois-under-fire-over-proposal-to-ban-religious-symbols/article13869072/

INGRID PERITZ
MONTREAL — The Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Aug. 20 2013, 12:24 PM EDT
Last updated Tuesday, Aug. 20 2013, 10:09 PM EDT

Quebec is heading into another fierce debate over the future of religious freedom in the province with the Parti Québécois government set to release a Charter of Quebec Values that could ban religious headwear everywhere from daycares to hospitals.

On Tuesday, a news report suggested that the minority government of Premier Pauline Marois wants to prohibit public employees from wearing items such as hijabs, turbans and kippas, in a broad ban that could extend from elementary and university teachers to nurses and child-care workers.

The minister responsible for the values charter, Bernard Drainville, would not comment on the report, published in the Journal de Montréal and the Journal de Québec. However, no one from the Marois government disavowed it.

The PQ is expected to table new rules in the fall, part of a set of proposals by the government to enshrine the secular character of the province into law.

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1. "Tis an ill word, 'tis a vile word,

"Putinesque is a vile word."