Quebec public schools teachers and school principals will be prohibited from wearing religious symbols such as the hijab or kippa, under a bill likely to be tabled later this week in the provincial legislature. Sources familiar with the legislation said any public employee who carries a weapon won't be able to display religious symbols. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press)Radio-Canada is reporting the bill will contain a grandfather clause to allow an estimated 500 public sector workers to keep wearing their religious symbols. That report, based on a public inquiry held between 2007 and 2008, recommended preventing public officials who wield coercive power from wearing signs of their religious affiliation. This respectful gesture of support for the Muslim community would become impossible in Quebec if a ban on state employees holding positions of authority wearing religious symbols is adopted.

Source: CBC News March 25, 2019 20:02 UTC