The Canadian Soccer Association: Quebec Soccer Federation

Quebec Soccer Federation: The Canadian Soccer Association suspended the provincial association on Monday after the Quebec body showed no sign of overturning its decision to uphold a ban on Sikh religious headwear on the pitch, according to CBC. The Quebec premier took issue Tuesday with the CSA move and called it "unacceptable" for the national organization to punish her province's soccer federation and Pauline Marois came out kicking in defence of the Quebec Soccer Federation's refusal to let turban-wearing kids play the sport, a position that has lobbed the controversial debate into the province's political arena. It says the suspension will remain in place until the Quebec organization lifts its restriction on turbans, patkas and keskis in organized soccer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.