{"id":560394,"date":"2026-03-24T04:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560394\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:38:08","slug":"the-impact-of-quebecs-secular-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560394\/","title":{"rendered":"The impact of Quebec&#8217;s secular law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">As Quebec&#8217;s secularism law, Bill 21, faces a challenge at the Supreme Court of Canada, some women in Quebec say they\u2019ve paid the highest price. The law bans certain public workers from wearing religious symbols, but includes a \u201cgrandfather clause,\u201d meaning people already in their roles can keep their jobs, as long as they don\u2019t change positions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">For Montreal public pupil support worker Lisa Robicheau, who wears a hijab, that creates uncertainty, she can stay in her current job, but risks losing it if she seeks a promotion or new role. Supporters of the law argue it protects secularism in public life, while critics say it can limit careers and disproportionately affects Muslim women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Read more about the fight over Bill 21 <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c78j8vk3r50o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Video by Eloise Alanna and Nadine Yousif<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Quebec&#8217;s secularism law, Bill 21, faces a challenge at the Supreme Court of Canada, some women in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-560394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}