Hijab-wearing teacher who lost job due to Bill 21 was 'trying to make a statement': Quebec lawmakers
CTV
After a teacher in Chelsea, Que. lost her classroom job for wearing a hijab—in contravention of Bill 21—some provincial politicians doubled down, even saying the young woman did it intentionally to 'make a statement.'
“The reason this teacher doesn't have a job is because she didn't respect the law,” said Pascal Bérubé, the Parti Québécois’s critic on secularism, on Thursday morning.
“The law is for everyone. She tried to make a statement wearing a hijab.”
Bérubé said Anvari "has to make a choice: her job or religion," he said. "[They’re] not going well together."
But the teacher, Fatemeh Anvari, told CTV News on Thursday that her reassignment at her primary school came as a surprise, after the local school board belatedly realized she wasn't allowed to teach under the Quebec law.
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