A Grade 3 teacher and the children of Chelsea spark promising movement to bring down Bill 21

It is painfully ironic that Bill 21 was passed with its own pre-emptive notwithstanding clause. Quebec Premier François Legault confidently plays his nativist cards against the criticisms of more than three million Quebecers who are opposed to the law. Wearing his own political motives on his sleeve, he dares the rest of Canada to get into the fight.
Dozens gathered in Chelsea, Que., outside the office of Gatineau’s CAQ MNA, Robert Bussière, to protest Quebec's secularism law after a teacher was removed from her position for wearing a hijab.
CHELSEA, QUE.— Standing in an ice-covered parking lot outside the office of Gatineau’s CAQ MNA, Robert Bussière, and listening to several protest speeches in French and English doesn’t seem like a pleasant way to spend a lunch hour. But things are not always as they seem. For one thing ther...

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