School board 'should not have hired' Quebec teacher who lost job for wearing hijab: premier
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'And I want to remind everybody that Bill 21 became a law in June 2019. It was voted democratically by the National Assembly. I think it’s a reasonable law, a balanced law,' Legault said.
“The school board should not have hired this person in the first place as a teacher, given Bill 21,” Premier François Legault said Friday at an end-of-session press conference at the National Assembly.
Parents and students have rallied behind Fatemeh Anvari, a Grade 3 teacher in the Western Quebec School Board, who was told she could no longer teach her students because she was violating Quebec’s secularism law.
Bill 21 bans people in positions of authority, including teachers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols, such as hijabs, kippas and turbans, in the course of their work.
“And I want to remind everybody that Bill 21 became a law in June 2019. It was voted democratically by the National Assembly. I think it’s a reasonable law, a balanced law,” Legault said.
