AFT Bulletin, 2020-05-07

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• Blog #118: “Now Confirmed: No Secular Movement in Canada Outside Quebec”, David Rand
  “…if there are any secularists in RoC, either they have been cowed into silence, or they are promoting something which is not really secularism.”
• Blog #117: “The Huge Lie of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Bar Association”, David Rand
  “…the CCLA grants religion an enormous privilege, the privilege of being on a level of importance exceeding even the duties of a civil servant during working hours, a privilege which elevates religious practice above even the democratically adopted laws of the State. By virtue of such logic, or rather illogic, if a Pastafarian were hired as civil servant, they would have to be allowed to wear a colander on their head, even at work. The consequences are downright laughable.”
• Blog #116: “No, We Are Not Guilty”, David Rand
  “Open letter to Mr. Boufeldja Benabdallah, president of the Centre culturel islamique de Québec (CCIQ), and to all those opponents of Quebec Bill 21 who exploit the Quebec City mosque massacre as a weapon against secularism.”
• Blog #115: “Comments on the Hak versus Quebec Attorney-General Ruling”, Pierre Cloutier ll.m
  “When the Legault government decided to include the so-called “notwithstanding” clause—i.e. section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms—in its Draft Bill 21 on State secularism, in order to protect the law from an adverse decision from the Supreme Court of Canada, all those who support the law, including myself, enthusiastically applauded this decision. We thought, reasonably, that the law would thus be protected for at least 5 years, as specified in subsection 3 of section 33…”
• RPL Press Release, 2020-04-09: The Rassemblement pour la laïcité is satisfied with the Supreme Court Decision
  “Today’s decision by the Supreme Court of Canada, like those previously rendered by the Superior and Appeal Courts, is an important victory for the realization of the principle of secularism within the machinery of State, as well as for respecting the principle of freedom of conscience of citizens, both female and male, and in particular underage persons.”
• RPL Press Release, 2019-12-12: Alliance for Secularism Welcomes the Decision by the Court of Appeal
• Letter to Organizations in RoC about Bill 21
  • Responses to our letter
• World Atheist Day 2020
• “Quebec Bill 21: A modest but historic step forward for secularism”, David Rand
• …as well as several News posts

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