SIKH VIRSA ARTICLE (AUGUST 2019)

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Opponents of Quebec's Bill 21 seek to appeal
decision that maintained religious symbols law
MONTREAL: Civil liberties
groups are seeking leave to appeal
a recent Quebec Superior
Court decision that found it
wasn’t necessary to temporarily
suspend certain provisions of
Quebec’s secularism law while a
full challenge is mounted.
The National Council of Canadian
Muslims and Canadian
Civil Liberties Association announced
their intention Tuesday
on the steps of Quebec’s Court
of Appeal building in Montreal.
Last Thursday, the Quebec
Superior Court ruled that Bill 21
would continue to apply in full
until a challenge of the law could
be heard on it merits a process
that could take months.
Justice Michel Yergeau ruled
that the applicants had failed to
demonstrate harm warranting a
stay, but National Council of Canadian
Muslims’ executive director
Mustafa Farooq argues that
people are being affected by the
law now and it must be stopped.
Farooq says if allowed to appeal,
the groups plan to highlight
areas where they believe Yergeau
erred in his ruling.
“We disagree that the harm
to people in Quebec is hypothetical
rather, it’s actual, inevitable
and irreparable,” Farooq
said. “We believe that there is
urgency in halting this law that
people are affected by Bill 21
now.”
At its core, Farooq said, the
law divides and forces people
to give up their identities, and if
they refuse, they’re deemed unwelcome
in segments of society.
The provincial law, which
came into effect in June, bans
some public sector workers, including
teachers and police officers,
from wearing religious
symbols on the job.
And the law is having immediate
impact. Amrit Kaur, a
representative of the World Sikh
Organization in Quebec
and a recent teaching
graduate said she
has had to look elsewhere
for employment.
“I’m actually being
forced to look outside
the province in particular
in B.C. because of
this bill,” Kaur said. “To
say that there are no
immediate effects is a complete
lie, because there are people like
myself who have to choose between
their faith and their careers,
and they cannot put their
faith aside so they have to leave
their homes.”
No date has been set before
the province’s high court.
Bill 21 invokes the notwithstanding
clause of the Canadian
Constitution, which prevents
citizens from challenging the
law for violating fundamental
rights and liberties protected by
the Canadian Charter of Rights
and Freedoms.
Arguing on behalf of the two
organizations and an education
student who wears a hijab, the
lawyers who challenged the legislation
said the law is unconstitutional
because it encroaches
on federal jurisdiction, it is impermissibly
vague and it violates
citizens’ rights to participate in
their democratic institutions.
Yergeau said those arguments
did not justify the stay,
and he rejected claims the law itself
was causing harm to Muslim
women or to other religious
minorities.
The Quebec government
said it was satisfied with a decision
that ensured the law would
apply and is determined to defend
its legitimacy.
On Tuesday, other organizations
including the World Sikh
Organization and B’nai Brith
Canada said they are considering
seeking intervener status in
the case.
B’nai Brith’s Steven
Slimovitch said each individual
must have a right to participate
in society.
“Our position on Bill 21 is
quite simple: It is a reprehensible
piece of legislation. The state
should never be involved in legislating
religion in one form or
the other,” Slimovitch said.
(The End)
Sikh Virsa, Calgary 72. August, 2019