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Pearl Eliadis on Quebec’s Ban on Religious Symbols | The New York Times
Published: 27 January 2025
January 25, 2025 | The Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether a law that Quebec enacted in 2019, barring public-sector workers from wearing religious symbols, violates their rights. Professor Pearl Eliadis said that while one of the main tenets of Quebec’s secularism was the idea that the state should be a neutral actor, she thought the law had imposed the government’s viewpoint of what nonreligion ought to look like in the public service. “Now the state is no longer really neutral,†she said.