Bill 94: A Major Step Towards Secular Public Schools 2025-03-20 Montreal, 20th March 2025. The Rassemblement pour la laïcité (RPL or Alliance for Secularism) welcomes Bill 94 introduced by Minister Bernard Drainville to strengthen secularism in the Quebec school system.…
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RPL Press Release, 2025-03-20
Bill 84 and National Integration, a Further Step towards Social Cohesion
The original French-language version of this letter first appeared in Le Devoir with the title Le PL-84 sur l’intégration nationale, une étape de plus vers la cohésion sociale. Nadia El-Mabrouk, François Dugré, Marie-Claude Girard, Etienne-Alexis Boucher, Lucie Jobin, Lyne Jubinville…
RPL Press Release, 2025-01-23
Press Release, Rassemblement pour la laïcité Challenge before Supreme Court Will Quebec’s right to self-determination in matters of secularism be recognized? Nadia El-Mabrouk & six cosigners, board members of RPL: Etienne-Alexis Boucher, Marie-Claude Girard, François Dugré, Lyne Jubinville, Raphaël Guérard…
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Overview of the Year 2024 and Secularism
2024, une année centrale pour la laïcité de l’État (2024, Pivotal year for State Secularism), Marie-Claude Girard, Le Devoir, 2024-12-30. Several steps have been taken over the years towards a secular state in Quebec. We need only think of the…
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Quebec Asks for Repeal of Religious Exception
Discours haineux: Simon Jolin-Barrette demande à Ottawa d’en finir avec l’exemption religieuse (Hate Propaganda: Simon Jolin-Barrette asks Ottawa to put an end to the religious exception), Raphaël Pirro, Journal de Montréal, 2024-11-29. Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette is asking his…
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Yves Gingras Recipient of Science and Secularism Prize
Yves Gingras, Prix Science et laïcité 2024, Prix de la Laïcité, Comité laïcité république, 2024-11-07. As part of its annual Secularism Awards, the Comité laïcité république (CLR) awarded Yves Gingras, Quebec historian and sociologist of science, the 2024 Science and…
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Discrimination in Childcare Centres
Trente-six CPE sélectionnent selon l’ethnie ou la religion (Thirty-six childcare centres select according to ethnicity or religion), Francis Vailles, La Presse, 2024-11-12. An article in La Presse reveals that 36 State-funded (i.e. more than 80% State-funded) childcare centres in the…
Decisive Action for Secular Schools
Nadia El-Mabrouk, President of Rassemblement pour la laïcité (RPL) Publication date: 2024-11-11 Date of publication in L’AUT’JOURNAL : 2024-11-08 Honorable Premier of Quebec, Allow us to express our deep concern at the numerous revelations of religious infiltration in Quebec schools and…
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2024-10-29: Book Launch Simulacre in Quebec City
Book launch of Un simulacre de laïcité by David Rand (French-language version of Stillbirth) at Le Mot de tasse bookstore in Quebec City, 29th October 2024 A successful event and a great evening, thanks to: Main organizer: Myriam Morissette Presenter:…
Blog 145: Tax Privileges of Religions
Pierre Marchand Publication Date: 2024-10-20 We recently learned in the Journal de Montréal that the city of Montreal had given a tax holiday to a centre owned by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) where an activist celebrates the terrorist…
Blog 143: The Outrageous Declarations of Amira Elghawaby & Anas Hassouna
David Rand Publication Date: 2024-09-20 The outlandish Amira Elghawaby was appointed “Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia” by the government of Justin Trudeau in January of 2023. It is noteworthy that her mandate does not bother to define just what…
In the News: MLQ, PDF-Q & Quebec Ask for Disqualification of Justice Jamal
The Mouvement laïque québécois (MLQ), the organization Pour les droits des femmes du Québec (PDF-Q) and the Attorney General of Quebec have each written to the Supreme Court requesting that Justice Mahmud Jamal be withdrawn from the case involving Quebec…
PRESS RELEASE, 2024-03-04
For immediate release AFT welcomes judgment of Court of Appeal of Quebec but calls for removal of all mention of religion from Charters Montreal, 4th March 2024 — Atheist Freethinkers (LPA-AFT) heartily welcomes the decision of the Court of Appeal of…
Tagged with: bill_21, Canadian_Charter, Court_of_Appeal_of_Quebec, Quebec, Quebec_Charter, secularism
In the News:
Renew Notwithstanding Clause to Protect Bill 21
Laïcité de l’État : Québec renouvelle l’utilisation de la clause dérogatoire (State Secularism: Quebec Renews its Use of the Notwithstanding Clause), Hugo Pilon-Larose and the Canadian Press, La Presse, 2024-02-08. The Quebec minister responsible for secularism, Jean-François Roberge, has tabled legislation…
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English Montreal School Board Wastes Taxpayers’ Money
Commission scolaire English-Montréal: 1,3 M$ pour contester la Loi sur la laïcité de l’État (English Montreal School Board: $1.3 million to challenge Quebec’s secularism law), Patrick Bellerose, Journal de Québec, 2024-02-01. The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) has spent, to date, at…
Blog 142: The Gross Incompetence of the Canadian Human Rights Commission
David Rand 2023-11-30 On the website of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), there is a page entitled “Discussion Paper on Religious Intolerance,” dated October 23, 2023 and indicating that it is “Anti-racism work.” Given that its topic is religious…
International Solidarity with Religion-State Separation
Publication Date: 2023-11-04 Would your organization like to endorse this declaration? We are looking for associations, internationally, who would be interested in signing. You can reach us via this on-line form. Furthermore, we invite you to publish this declaration on…
2023-10-13: AAI Hot Seat, Arif Hussain Theruvath Interviews David Rand
The following video, recorded 13th October 2023, is an interview of David Rand, president of LPA-AFT and author of Stillbirth, by Arif Hussain Theruvath as part of the AAI Hot Seat series for Atheist Alliance International. Here are the 18…
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Thank You Donors!
We Thank Our Donors! Many thanks to each and every one of you who have donated (and some of you, several times!) to our Legal Fund. We are particularly grateful to: the Rassemblement pour la laïcité (Alliance for Secularism) which…
Culture and Citizenship Quebec Program: Two Observations
Nadia El-Mabrouk For Board of Directors of Rassemblement pour la laïcité (RPL, Alliance for Secularism) 2023-08-26 We are delighted with the changes made to the new version of the Culture and Citizenship Quebec (CCQ) program in connection with secularism. Following…
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Court Rejects Appeal concerning Prayer Spaces in Schools
Quebec judge denies request to appeal decision maintaining school prayer space ban, Jacob Serebrin, CTV News, 2023-07-26-court. A Muslim organization and a civil rights group seeking to suspend Quebec’s ban on prayer spaces in public schools have been denied leave…
2023-04-29: Atheist Society of Melbourne, Talk by David Rand
Atheist Society of Melbourne, AustraliaTalk by David Rand “Stillbirth, The Failure of Secularism in the English-Speaking World” Publication Date: 2023-05-05 The following video is an on-line talk, given for the Atheist Society of Melbourne, on 29th April 2023. This talk…
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Secular Ontario Supports Bill 21
We have learned from the secretary of Secular Ontario that the Board of that organization has adopted a resolution in support of Quebec Bill 21. “Be it resolved that Secular Ontario supports the secular (laicite) legislation of the Quebec National…
2023-04-01: Warsaw, Atheist Days, Talk by David Rand
Comparison of English and French Models of Secularism and the Importance of Universalism David Rand Publication Date: 2023-04-15 The following presentation was given by the author at Atheist Days 2023 in Warsaw, Poland, an event organized by the Kazimierz Łyszczyński…
Tagged with: antiracism, canada, First_Amendment, neoracism, Quebec, racism, religious_neutrality, secularism, separation
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Quebec National Assembly Strikes Back. Bravo!
Les députés québécois unanimes: pas plus de racisme au Québec qu’ailleurs (Quebec MNAs Unanimous: Quebec No More Racist than Elsewhere), Geneviève Lajoie, Journal de Québec, 2023-03-15. Members of all political parties in the National Assembly are unanimous: there is no…
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