A four-part audio documentary on Quebec's Bill 21, the law that bars police officers, judges, teachers, and other public servants from wearing religious symbols at work.
The final episode sets Quebec’s law inside two larger models for managing pluralism: French republicanism, which emphasizes a common culture and the general will, and Anglo liberalism, which emphasizes individual conscience and the recognition of difference. It traces those models to their Catholic and Protestant roots, to the civil-law and common-law traditions, and to the […]
A four-part audio documentary on Quebec’s Bill 21, the law that bars police officers, judges, teachers, and other public servants from wearing religious symbols at work.
Hosts Lisa Richmond and Jean-Christophe Jasmin of the Canadian think tank Cardus trace its roots and its stakes through interviews with leading scholars, lawyers, historians, and activists, and take no side, so you can decide for yourself.