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New legislation would include exemption for current workers. The Quebec government says it will ban religious symbols in the province's daycare centres. Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge says ...

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The Quebec government says it will ban religious symbols in the province's daycare centres. Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge says there is a "broad consensus" that Quebecers want secularism ...