The Quebec government will be expanding its secularism rules across public institutions in a new bill that is expected to be tabled Thursday.

Various media outlets in the province confirmed the contents of the new bill, which includes a ban on prayer rooms in universities and CEGEPs, restricting the offering of religious-based meals and banning religious symbols in communications by public institutions.
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New forms of spirituality, revival of traditional Indigenous beliefs, rising immigration, and debates on secularism are blurring the line between religion and non-religion in Canada, scholar David Seljak says — part of what he calls a “permanent revolution” and the latest development in how religion has shaped the country’s social order.

Seljak, a professor of religious studies at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, shared his views as the opening speaker at “Land, Law, Religion and Reconciliation,” a colloquium hosted by the University of Victoria’s Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (CSRS) May 4-6. His livestreamed presentation was the latest of the John Albert Hall Lectures, a series hosted by the university in which notable speakers discuss the changing role of religion in modern society.
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