Manitoba’s premier would be better off spending money on French-language services or retaining NHL players than trying to woo Quebec civil servants to the Prairies, Quebec Premier Francois Legault said Thursday as he shot back at his counterpart’s latest criticism of his province’s secularism law.
Brian Pallister’s government recently announced it is rolling out a series of newspaper and electronic advertisements in Quebec that welcome government workers to move to Manitoba if they feel threatened by their province’s ban on religious symbols in the workplace.
The ads reference “21 reasons to feel at home in Manitoba” — a reference to Quebec’s Bill 21, which was passed into law earlier this year. The legislation prevents state employees in positions of authority, such as teachers, judges and police officers, from wearing religious symbols such as hijabs or turbans on the job.
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