Quebec’s charter of values worries members of the university community

By Marie Lambert-Chan. The province’s university community, like the rest of Quebec society, is torn apart over the proposed ban on wearing religious symbols. Nora Jaffary, chair of Concordia University’s history department, is not a Muslim. But she is wearing a hijab to protest Bill 60 – entitled the Charter affirming the values of State secularism and religious neutrality and of equality between women and men, and providing a framework for accommodation requests (PDF) – tabled by the Quebec government in November. More...