State Employees: Religious Symbols

religious symbols: 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, according to CTV. "If we don't have religious symbols, I think it's easier to accept each other for all societies," said Robert Carrier, one of those on hand and 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. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.