{"id":10011,"date":"2017-10-18T11:50:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/?p=10011"},"modified":"2020-10-26T05:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T09:23:31","slug":"leaf-opposes-the-quebec-governments-religious-neutrality-bill-bill-62","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/news\/leaf-opposes-the-quebec-governments-religious-neutrality-bill-bill-62\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAF opposes the Qu\u00e9bec government\u2019s \u201cReligious Neutrality\u201d Bill, Bill 62"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) opposes the Qu\u00e9bec government\u2019s \u201cReligious Neutrality\u201d Bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bill-62.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill 62<\/a>, which the Qu\u00e9bec legislature passed today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bill:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Establishes a duty of neutrality for all state personnel;<\/li><li>Requires personnel members to exercise their functions with their faces uncovered;<\/li><li>Makes it mandatory to have one\u2019s face uncovered when receiving a state service.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This requires that one\u2019s face must be uncovered to work in any public service position and to receive public services such as health care, childcare, and public transportation. Just as LEAF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/the-quebec-charter-of-values-detracts-from-the-fight-for-womens-equality\/\">opposed<\/a> the 2013 proposed \u201cQu\u00e9bec Charter of Values\u201d, LEAF opposes Bill 62 because it will disproportionately target women, and in particular, Muslim women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LEAF asserts that this Bill is divisive, discriminatory, and will serve to further entrench inequality along gender, race, and ethnic lines. The Bill intentionally excludes niqab-wearing women from public employment and denies them access to fundamentally important social services such as healthcare and childcare. This will exacerbate the inequality already experienced by Muslim women due to violence, racism, sexism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Bill denies niqab-wearing women access to employment in the public service, an area of the workforce in which they may be most likely to find employment. They will also be denied state services. Again, this explicitly and directly targets women, who we know experience higher rates of poverty and are therefore more likely to utilize public services such as public transportation and social services. Finally, women are particularly impacted by the requirement that an individual must show their face in order to access daycare. Women continue to be the primary care givers in many families, and therefore have a disproportionate need for childcare services. Feminists have long pointed out the relationship between women\u2019s equality, access to the workforce, and access to childcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LEAF is particularly troubled by the Bill\u2019s inclusion of educational services, including elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education, which will deny niqab-wearing women and girls access to education. It is widely recognized in Canada and internationally that women and girls\u2019 access to education is integral to gender equality and the alleviation of gendered poverty. LEAF is particularly concerned about this regressive move to deny Muslim women the right to learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bill\u2019s provisions ostensibly providing for accommodation are unduly onerous and may be used to justify denying accommodations to niqab-wearing women. It is unreasonable to require niqab-wearing women to engage in a lengthy accommodation request process, by which a personnel member will evaluate whether she has cooperated with seeking a solution, and will take into account whether the accommodation is consistent with nebulous concepts such as \u201cstate neutrality\u201d, every time she wants to take a bus, enter a library or see a doctor. The practical outcome of this Bill is very likely to make basic state services entirely unavailable to niqab -wearing women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with the proposed Charter of Values, LEAF suggests that if the government really wants to address inequality between men and women, it should tackle the structural barriers to women\u2019s equality, such as those related to housing, employment, child and elder care, violence, health, poverty and discrimination on the basis of marital status. How can restricting women\u2019s participation in public life and access to public services increase access to equal rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LEAF encourages the Qu\u00e9bec government to repeal Bill 62 and to focus instead on ameliorating the existing significant and real barriers that impede the achievement of substantive equality for all women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LEAF is committed to challenging all forms of discrimination against women through legal action, public education, and law reform under the&nbsp;<em>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms<\/em>. For more information, visit our website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\">www.leaf.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10011","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","category-featured","category-whats-new"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LEAF opposes the Qu\u00e9bec government\u2019s \u201cReligious Neutrality\u201d Bill, Bill 62 - LEAF<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/news\/leaf-opposes-the-quebec-governments-religious-neutrality-bill-bill-62\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LEAF opposes the Qu\u00e9bec government\u2019s \u201cReligious Neutrality\u201d Bill, Bill 62 - LEAF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) opposes the Qu\u00e9bec government\u2019s \u201cReligious Neutrality\u201d Bill, Bill 62, which the Qu\u00e9bec legislature passed today. 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