Charter: Parti Quebecois

Parti Quebecois: MONTREAL - Supporters of Quebec's charter of values numbered in the hundreds as they descended on downtown Montreal calling for a secular state and urging the government to go forward with its plan to push state employees to leave their religious garb at home. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Several hundred gathered in a Montreal square on Sunday and marched to voice their support for the Parti Quebecois' controversial secular plan for public sector employees. Supporters of a proposed Quebec values charter gather in Montreal, Sunday, during a demonstration in favour of the charter which would ban the wearing of religious symbols and clothing from any public institutions if brought into law. The Parti Quebecois government formally announced its plan earlier this month, one that would prohibit state employees from wearing overt religious symbols. That would include everyone from judges and police officers to daycare and health care workers and school teachers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.