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National Assembly
Quebec religious neutrality assembly, act to foster religious neutrality
Public Ban on religious symbols
The state is there to provide reasonable,
The state religious neutrality purpose, when the state serves the public it must be
neutral in religion, the government departments, the budget funded bodies,
universities included, bodies under the public service act, the public sector
(hospitals, health care, school boards), bodies where the government elects the
majority of the members, includes national assembly, all police officers, dentists,
physicals in public institutes,
If their faith does not approve it they will not perform the procedures i.e. doctors
not providing services, they are not required to provide services if it breaks their
faith, giving freedom of choice to practitioners, Quebec follows civil law model
A public body may require a service organization to comply with the state neutrality
provisions
Public servants must not have their face covered; if people want service from the
government then they must have their face to be uncovered,
Quebec has civil rights because of abuse and religious conversion back in the
colonization of Canada
State must always be neutral must not have religious programs, no religious
daycare,
Cultural events are engrained in society, like Easter, Santa Claus, Halloween,
majority decides for society
Symbols specifically identified to a faith are not allowed in the France and Quebec
model
Uber getting banned in Quebec because they tried to dictate the law
In 1995 PQ, jean chretian, Lucien bouchard, amend constitution for Quebec schools,
the Quebec Claus, originally Quebec was excluded, linguistic school boards no longer
religious school boards
Quebec wont finance Anglophone schools, because in many provinces don’t finance
francophone schools
Aboriginals are using collective rights; Aboriginals can block anything in BC because
there is no treaties or established rights for aboriginals in BC
They are a tribe speaking to the government, who want their own laws,
government; Supreme Court ruled that we must consult aboriginals
Limitations act 2002, timing you can submit a case to the court, everything in
Ontario expect properties, appeal, provincial offences, aboriginal and treaty rights
Basic Limitation period item 4, of the limitations act, if they miss the timing they
cannot take you to court all charges issues are dismissed after 2 years, starts the
first day that they knew
Teeth whiting chemicals haven’t been long term testing, how do we know they won’t
give cancer,
Baby powder, class action lawsuit ovarian cancer, and testicular cancer
Because theres no norms doesn’t mean its illegal, things might be wrong
Is the testing done on or chemicals enough what are the norms of these tests?
Limitations act When did you find out about the issue and what would a reasonable
person do in this situation, the person who delayed needs to prove why they have
taken that long and they must justify why it took that long,
Yes means Yes, must reconfirm consent, the burden is on the person asking for
consent, no excuse not to understand consent