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Montreal Jewish General Hospital and Religious Attire

public services: Wrapping itself in the secular flag, it proposed a ban on all religious attire and symbols, hoping that the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and institutions of other faiths would take up its offer of opting out for five years, according to Toronto Star. That would clear the way to ban niqab-wearing women from accessing public services, including health, and fire hijab-wearing women from daycare centres and the health sector. But the Parti Québécois government of Pauline Marois couldn’t quite figure out how to target Muslims alone. PQ strategist and cabinet minister Jean-FrançoisLisée admitted that much: We are not dummies. That not the case. Nobody will be at the doors of Jewish hospitals taking kippas off of doctors’ heads. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.