Pearl Eliadis on the Advisory Committee鈥檚 Controversial Secularism Proposals | Daybreak Montreal
August 27, 2025 | On Daybreak Montreal with Sean Henry, Pearl Eliadis said Quebec鈥檚 new secularism proposals mark a fundamental shift in the province鈥檚 legal and constitutional framework. The proposals come from a government advisory committee tasked with reviewing how the province鈥檚 secularism law is applied and how it could be expanded. In its 228-page report, the committee issued 50 recommendations, including extending the religious symbols ban to subsidized daycares, requiring people to uncover their faces to access public services, and phasing out funding for religious private schools.聽Eliadis said many of these measures would clearly violate the constitution and could only be enforced using the notwithstanding clause. She also warned that they risk isolating communities and unintentionally encouraging the very radicalization the report aims to prevent.
