Resources and information
Law 21 in the news
- Quebec teacher removed from classroom for wearing hijab under law banning religious symbols
- Quebec's English school boards will have to apply secularism law until court hears challenge
- Protesters gather to oppose religious symbols ban, one year after Bill 21 became law
- ‘Dark day for Quebec’: Religious symbols law draws criticism
Law 21 in the courts
- Quebec Court of Appeals – Mouvement laïque québécois c. English Montreal School Board (2021 QCCA 1675) (November 9, 2021)
- Décision de la Cour supérieure du Québec (Superior Court Ruling – April 20, 2020)
- Quebec Court of Appeals on the Suspension of Bill 21 (December 12, 2019)
- Décision de la Cour supérieure du Québec quant à la suspension du Projet de loi 21 (Superior Court Decision on the Suspension of Bill 21 – July 18, 2019)
Scholarly research
- Boukhari, Dallal. 2020. “L’école publique au Québec, la laïcité et l’intégration.” Revue du droit des Francophones religions (10): 125-140.
- Celis, L., Dabby, D., Leydet, D. and Romani, V (eds). 2020. Modération or extrémisme? Regards critiques sur la loi 21. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval.
- Ferretti, Lucia, and Rocher, François, eds. 2020. Les Enjeux D'un Québec Laïque : La Loi 21 En Perspective. Montréal: Del Busso éditeur.
- Fletcher, Raquel. 2020. Who Belongs in Quebec? : Identity Politics in a Changing Society. Montreal, Québec: Linda Leith Publishing.
- Gouvernment du Québec. 2021. La Laïcité: le choix du Québec. Québec: Secrétariat à l’accès à l’information et à la réforme des institutions démocratiques.
- Guyver, Jennifer. 2021. “Protecting the legitimacy of state violence through laïcité: the case of Quebec.” In Religion and Violence in Western Traditions, edited by André Gagné, Jennifer Guyver and Gerbern Oegema. London: Routledge Press (forthcoming)
- Patrick, M., Chan, W.Y.A, Tiflati, H., Reid, E. 2019. “Religion and Secularism: Four myths and Bill 21.” | Religion et laïcité: quatre mythes et le projet de loi 21 Directions (December).
- Potvin, M., et al. 2020. Findings from the Survey on the effects of Bill 21 on Faculties and Departments of Education in Quebec universities, their students and personnel. | Observatoire sur la formation à la diversité et l’équité.
- Rousseau, Guillaume, Poirier Éric, and Julie Latour. 2020. Loi Sur La Laïcité De L'état Commentée Et Annotée : Philosophie, Genèse, Interprétation et Application. Sherbrooke, Québec: Éditions R.D.U.S.
- Seymour, Michel. 2021. Raison, Déraison Et Religion : Plaidoyer Pour Une Laïcité Ouverte. Collection Théorie, 11. Montréal (Québec): Éditions Écosociété.
- Stout, Dale, Claude Charpentier, and Myriam Chiasson. 2021. “Secularism, Intercultural Openness, and Reasonable Accommodation: The Perspectives of and Anglophones Living in South-Eastern Quebec.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 33 (1): 47–76.
Background issues and points of view
- 2008 — Bouchard-Taylor Report on Reasonable Accommodation
Bouchard, Gérard, and Charles Taylor. Commission de consultation sur les pratiques d’accommodement reliées aux différences culturelles. 2008. Building the Future: A Time for Reconciliation (or Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée Nationale [PDF]) Québec, QC: Gouvernement du Québec. - 1999 — Proulx Report on the Place of Religion in Schools
Proulx, Jean Pierre. Groupe de travail sur la place de la religion à l’école. 1999. Religion in Secular Schools: A New Perspective for Quebec Québec, QC: Gouvernement du Québec.
- Bill 94 (PLQ proposed legislation, introduced in 2010):
- Bill 60 (PQ proposed legislation introduced in 2013):
- Bill 398 (QS proposed legislation introduced in 2013):
- Bill 492 (CAQ proposed legislation introduced in 2013):
- Bill 491 (PLQ proposed legislation in 2014):
- Law 62 (PLQ adopted legislation in 2017):
- Béland, Daniel, Lecours, André and Peggy Schmeiser. 2021. “Nationalism, Secularism, and Ethno-Cultural Diversity in Quebec.” Journal of Canadian Studies 55 (1): 177-202.
- Gaudreault-DesBiens, Jean-François. 2018. “Cohesive Fear.” In Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: National Narratives, Multiple Identities and Minorities, edited by Katayoun Alidadi and Marie-Claire Foblets, 175-180. London: Routledge.
- Gauvreau, Michel. 2014. Catholic Origins of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
- Guyver, Jennifer. 2017. “Politics or Piety? Debating the Function and Meaning of Religious Symbols in Quebec,” Arc 45, 23-46
- Laxer, Emily. 2019. Unveiling the Nation. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
- Lefebvre, Solange and Guillaume St-Lauren. 2018. Dix ans plus tard : La Commission Bouchard-Taylor, succès ou échec? Montréal: QuébecAmérique.
- Maclure, Jocelyn. 2014. “After the Bouchard-Taylor Commission. Religious Accommodation and Human Rights in Quebec.” In Negotiating Diversity: Identity, Pluralism and Democracy, edited by Alain-G. Gagnon and José-Maria Sauca, 87-101. New York: Peter Lang.
- Maclure, Jocelyn and Charles Taylor. 2011. Secularism and Freedom of Conscience. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
- Version Francaise : Maclure, Jocelyn and Charles Taylor. 2010. Laïcité et liberté de conscience. Montréal: Boréal.
- Stoker, Valerie. 2007. “Zero Tolerance? Sikh Swords, School Safety, and Secularism in Québec.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75 (4): 814–39.
- Zubryzcki, Geneviève. 2016. Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion and Secularism in Quebec. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Support resources
- Concordia University, Notice: Statement by Department of Education on Bill 21
- McGill University, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life: Resources for students regarding Bill 21