Supreme Court Of Canada: Multani

Sikh Community Dept: As a 12-year-old boy of Sikh origin, in the fall of 2001 he tripped in the schoolyard of cole Ste. Catherine Labour in LaSalle and lost his kirpan. A parent saw him pick it up and complained. He was suspended. The suspension provoked a court battle that saw the Supreme Court of Canada in 2006 rule in favour of the right to wear a kirpan at school. Today, Multani is a second-year accounting student at Concordia University, according to Montreal Gazette. ?A lot of people think my case made me political. It didn't. I really don't follow politics very much, although my father and a lot of other people in the Sikh community want me to get into politics eventually. But politics is complicated. There are a lot of compromises you have to make at various stages. You are not really free to make your own choices and few ordinary people had an impact on the politics of Quebec in the last decade more than Gurbaj Singh Multani. How the kirpan affair shaped my political views: As reported in the news.
@t montreal gazette, kirpan