{"id":913191,"date":"2026-09-28T19:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913191\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:52:09","slug":"pq-would-bar-young-children-from-wearing-conspicuous-religious-symbols-in-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913191\/","title":{"rendered":"PQ would bar young children from wearing &#8216;conspicuous religious symbols&#8217; in class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois if elected will extend secularism rules to children, barring elementary school students from wearing hijabs, kippahs and other \u201cconspicuous religious symbols\u201d in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Announced Sunday by PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, the change is part of a package of proposals aimed at boosting state secularism. <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/quebec-elections\/pq-majority-government-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Polls show the PQ is most likely to form a government<\/a> following the Oct. 5 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA school is about children being children and mixing and having fun together,\u201d St-Pierre Plamondon said Monday, adding children shouldn\u2019t be separated \u201cby religious beliefs at such a young age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois if elected will extend secularism rules to children, barring elementary school students from wearing hijabs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-913191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}