Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says citizens, not just governments, must play a role in ensuring that fundamental rights are defended after a Muslim teacher in Quebec was removed from her teaching position for wearing a hijab in class.
In a wide-ranging year-end interview with Rosemary Barton, CBC’s chief political correspondent, Trudeau defended his government’s response to Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21, which bans the wearing of religious symbols on the job by public servants in positions of authority.
“I disagree, and I always disagree, with Bill 21,” Trudeau said in an interview airing today on Rosemary Barton Live. “I
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