The image at City Hall was revealed last June, after the building reopened following extensive renovations. Since then, there have been numerous calls for it to be taken down.
RELATED - The CAQ government is under fire for continuing to subsidize private religious schools, despite its repeated claims that Quebec’s education system should remain secular. Global’s Franca Mignacca has more.A welcome sign in the lobby of Montreal’s newly renovated city hall depicting a woman wearing a headscarf will be removed in the name of secularism, Montreal’s mayor says, following criticism that the image is offensive.
In the image, which is in the style of a pencil sketch, the woman is standing between two men — one who seems younger and is wearing a baseball cap and overcoat, and an older man with his hands crossed in front of him. “Welcome to Montreal City Hall!” is written in French above them. The image at City Hall, which was still up on Monday, was revealed last June, after the building reopened following extensive renovations. Since then, there have been numerous calls for it to be taken down.
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