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Montr Al: Muslim Woman and Applications Quebec

montr al: I totally believed my statement, and it worked out perfectly fine for me, according to Rabble. I was accepted for a Master's program in Finance at the d' cole des Hautes tudes Commerciales de Montr al now HEC Montr al . While all of my professors spoke and lectured in French, most of our readings were done in English. At that time, I was applying for graduate business school, and I remember I kept including this line in my applications Quebec gives me the opportunity to have an excellent French education in a North American context. I was one of the very few racialized students in the program, let alone a Muslim woman with a headscarf. At that time, there was not a social debate about la la cit very little discussion about religious symbols, and nothing at all about the Charter of Values nor the niqab. There was always a malaise the first time I would show up in class among other students with my headscarf, but that would somehow dissipate as soon as I spoke French. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.