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The Legault government will toughen up existing laws enforcing its policies on secularism, extending its ban on religious symbols to future employees of private schools and cutting — but not fully eliminating — funding to schools that base student recruitment on religion, according to multiple reports.
The latest measures, initially reported Monday evening, follows an online tease of the coming legislation by Jean-François Roberge, the province’s minister responsible for secularism.
A 21-second video posted on the minister’s X account Monday evening shows writing by hand across the cover sheet of a copy of the proposed legislation with the words “C’est comme ça qu’on vit au Québec,” echoing the phrase used by Premier François Legault to justify Bill 21, the government’s initial secularism law.
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— Jean-F. Roberge (@jfrobergeQc) November 24, 2025
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While Roberge’s post offered few details, he wrote “secularism 2.0” and referred to Nov. 27, 2025 as a date.
The new legislation will reportedly also impose a ban on the wearing of face coverings in universities and CEGEPs, but not in public. Like its predecessor Bill 21, the new law may also contain the pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights to short-circuit legal challenges based on constitutionality.
This story will be updated.