Pauline Marois announced that the Parti Québécois government will create a charter of secularism preventing, among other things, civil servants from being able to wear a hijab or any other overt religious symbol, but the Catholic crucifix will remain displayed in the National Assembly. This all despite the fact that it could violate the right to freedom of religion, protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Raffaele Iacovino
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Department of Political Science
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Raffaele Iacovino’s teaching and research interests include Canadian and Quebec politics, federalism, citizenship and immigration and citizenship education.
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Bell Chair Fellow/SSHRC Post-Doc
Department of Political Science
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Bruce Hicks’ primary research focus is on formal institutions of governance – constitutions, legislatures, courts, governments and federalism – in developed countries like Canada, the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Europe. More specifically, he has been researching institutional change; why some countries have been able to ‘reform’ their institutions of governance and amend their constitutions.
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