Pearl Eliadis on Quebec’s Bill 94 and the Deepening Discrimination Under the Guise of Secularism | Law360 Canada
April 11, 2025 | In an interview, Pearl Eliadis critiques Quebec’s newly proposed Bill 94, which expands the province’s secularism rules by extending the ban on religious symbols to all school support staff and volunteers, mandating uncovered faces in educational institutions, and prohibiting religious accommodations across the education system. She argues that the bill intensifies discriminatory measures against religious minorities—particularly Muslim women—and reflects a broader nationalist agenda aimed at eroding human rights, weakening the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, and undermining democratic protections through a wave of recent legislative proposals that also restrict labor rights and promote assimilationist policies.
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