Quebec plans to ban street prayers as it moves to beef up secularism law

QUEBEC — The Coalition Avenir Québec government has presented new legislation expanding and reinforcing the rules of secularism in Quebec. Six years after adopting Bill 21 barring people in position of authority from wearing religious symbols, the minister responsible for laicity, Jean-François Roberge, presented Bill 9 in the National Assembly Thursday. Among other things, the bill, which will be subject to public hearings, will move Quebec’s secularism law up another