I'm an atheist from Québec. This is just the new thing of the right, pretending that this is an issue. It's not, never seen one street prayer in Montreal in decades. The just want to target Muslims to score cheap political points, fuck every single one of them.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
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Banning prayers in the street is fine, what is the reason for banning prayer rooms? In some places, these are also meditation rooms.
Btw, same guy who said they support illegal attack by US and Israel.
Do you think this would help or hurt QAC polling numbers?
Doesn't matter, they're dead anyways.
It's banning rooms explicitely for prayer, so you can still have an empty room meant for prayer, just needs to allow other things as well.
So wait, what happens to all the chapels in hospitals and such? Or is this solely applicable to universities/cegep and not much else?
Which is still convoluted considering the McGill campus is both an educational facility and a hospital so which way does that lean…?
That sounds remarkably ...sane and balanced if that's the ruling. Are we sure this is the CAQ?
tbh most of the rules in the law are much more reasonable than they sound, the only thing that's really objectionable is the hijab ban. And even then if you were hired before nover 7th you're exempt afaik.
Hijab Ban is fine if they also ban any kind of hat, cap, furry head gear, veils in weddings, etc.
They are banned. This is about teachers and educators, they already were not allowed to wear headgear, but religious stuff was exempted, until now.
I'm not on the side of religion, but that's some bullshit.
I'd just like to know which problem they are trying to solve.
Fair.
As long as they ban all prayers, I'm all for it. We're not living in 1026, we live in 2026. We have science, we know all religions are bullshit, it's time for humanity to move on from the horrors of religion and the only way to do that is to just outright ban it because people just won't stop believing in fairytales on their own
I have no problem with religion as long as they keep it to themselves. I think it's valuable in that it helps a lot of people cope with all the horrendous bullshit we're all exposed to every single day. Science certainly isn't going to do that for them.
Lmao
It is no different than China ethenic unity law. It is a racist laws and this community is full of racists
Hyperbolics too?
Fucking Bullshit by a dying (and gerontocratic) gov
gerontocratic
I learned something. I did not know that was a word.
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By street prayers do they mean those annoying people outside the metro stops?
The ones trying to convert people Christianity or whatever? I’m sure they’ve not got a huge issue with that for some reason.
Only problem with universities is people living on Residence but I assume this isn't banning it from their own rooms.
That would on par with banning masturbation. You can't ban what people do on their own behind closed doors.
Glad to hear it, I don’t want to see or hear about your religion. Worship whatever bullshit you like at home.
how often is this a problem for you?
I have managed to live here for a quarter century and I don't remember ever been bothered by people praying in a park
The problem with this is that it overwhelmingly targets muslims. Christians don’t wear specific things as part of their religion(and will conveniently get passes for “cultural/historic reasons”, I doubt they’ll be too mad about the stuff that the jews in Mile End wear, and they’ll certainly not change the crazy catholic names of many of the schools and hospitals in the province, but they will and have fired people over the hijab.
It’s a blantant attack on a specific group because the CAQ is a useless, racist organization intent on letting the entire province fall to pieces because they only have a handful of angry, misfiring braincells between them.
I also think religion is dumb but you don’t solve it this way. The CAQ spends more energy on this than it does fixing the healthcare issues and that’s so fucking embarrassing.