A Montreal school that reportedly violated the province’s Education Act has sparked a political standoff over how to defend Quebec’s secularist values
Some of the biggest political battles ever fought in Quebec have revolved around the role of religion in public schools. And a new one is now unfolding amid revelations that teachers at a multi-ethnic Montreal elementary school have, for years, failed to teach mandatory science and sex-ed curriculum and intimidated colleagues who took issue with their rigid teaching methods.
Coalition Avenir Québec Premier François Legault has ordered Mr. Drainville and his Minister Responsible for Secularism, Jean-François Roberge, to examine “all options” for strengthening secularism in public schools. “In Quebec, we decided, long ago, to take religion out of our public schools,” Mr.
Most Quebeckers do not have a problem with that. They see Quebec’s Catholic heritage as part of what makes it a distinct society. Though few of them are practising Catholics, they still value the traditions of their abandoned faith. Mr. Drainville, a former PQ cabinet minister best known for tabling a charter of Quebec values in 2013, is now on the receiving end of PQ attacks as he seeks to come up with a political response to the École Bedford controversy. Mr. Drainville’s charter served as the inspiration for the CAQ’s Bill 21.
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