The federal government’s exemption for quoting religious texts in its proposed hate speech law has attracted criticism — it ...

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The Bloc has pushed for years for the religious exemption to disappear, even tabling a bill in 2023 to that effect. At the time, the Quebec party pointed to comments by Montreal Imam Adil Charkaoui ...

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The federal government’s flagship anti-hate bill has hit a roadblock to becoming law after a heated dispute between the three main parties broke out over a Bloc Québécois proposal to end a religious ...