Pages tagged "Francois Legault"
CAQ Religious Symbols Ban An 'Assault on Fundamental Freedoms'
QUEBEC CONFIDENTIAL | By Mike Cohen
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MONTREAL – With the Quebec National Assembly officially in session, members of the province's multicultural communities are feeling uneasy as the newly elected Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) looks to adopt legislation banning religious symbols in public.
CAQ Must Completely Backtrack on Religious Symbols Ban
François Legault
MONTREAL – For most new governments, municipal, federal, or provincial, there's a honeymoon period. In Quebec, that has hardly been the case for Premier-elect François Legault, whose Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) won a strong majority in the Oct. 1 provincial election with 74 seats compared to 32 for the Liberals, 10 for Québec Solidaire and 10 for the Parti Québecois (PQ).
B'nai Brith Canada Urges CAQ to Reconsider Banning Religious Symbols
MONTREAL – As the controversy intensifies over the freshly elected Coalition Avenir Quebec's (CAQ) proposed ban on religious symbols in public institutions across Quebec, B'nai Brith Canada is urging Premier-elect Francois Legault to reconsider adopting the discriminatory legislation.
Quebec's Lone Jewish MNA David Birnbaum Nominated to Seek Another Mandate
Quebec Confidential
MONTREAL – David Birnbaum was 58 years old in the Spring of 2014 when Philippe Couillard asked him to be the Liberal candidate for the National Assembly in the riding of D'Arcy McGee, which includes the predominantly Jewish municipalities of Côte Saint-Luc and Hampstead.