加拿大魁北克省的新政府将在小学禁止所有宗教遮盖物，包括头巾和尼卡布面纱此举进一步收紧了现有的限制。受影响的将主要是锡克教、穆斯林和犹太族的儿童。
The new government in the Canadian province of Quebec will prohibit all religious coverings, including turbans and niqabs, from elementary schools, in a move that adds restrictions to those already in existence. The impact will mostly be on young Sikh, Muslim and Jewish children.
奉行分离主义的魁北克人党在10月举行的省选中上台执政，禁止学童穿戴显眼宗教服饰是其竞选纲领的一部分。
据媒体《蒙特娄宪报》报道，该省教育部长若埃尔·阿尔瑟诺表示：“我们是基于这个基础当选的，我们也将在这个基础之上开展工作。”
The separatist Parti Québécois came into power in the provincial election held in October and the ban on school children wearing overt religious attire was part of its platform.“We were elected on this base, and it’s on this base that we are going to work,” the province’s education minister Joël Arseneau said, according to the outlet Montreal Gazette.
今年9月，现任该省省长保罗·圣皮埃尔·普拉蒙东曾表示：“人们普遍接受的是，当你把孩子送到学校时，是有规则的。绝大多数人都会理解宗教标志是可以摘下的。”
In September, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, now the province’s Premier, said, “It’s accepted that when you send your child to school, there are rules. The vast majority of people will understand that a religious symbol can be removed.”
这是在此前由魁北克未来联盟（CAQ）政府于今年4月颁布的进一步限制措施之上建立的。当时《蒙特娄宪报》报道称，该禁令禁止在公立大学、政府资助的私立机构甚至托儿所进行宗教活动。该禁令还禁止在道路或公园进行集体宗教活动。
It builds on further restrictions enacted in April this under the previous Coalition Avenir Québecor (CAQ) government. That banned religious practice in public universities, private institutions subsidised by the government, even child car centres, the Gazette reported at the time. It also prohibits collective religious practices on roads or in parks.
在公共场所禁止宗教服饰的进程始于2019年的魁北克未来联盟政府时期。所谓的世俗化法案禁止某些类别的公务员展示明显的信仰标志，例如锡克教头巾或穆斯林女性的希贾布头巾。
The process of barring religious attire in public spaces began in 2019 under the CAQ government. The so-called secularism law prohibited certain categories of public servants from displaying a visible symbol of faith like the Sikh turban or a Muslim woman’s hijab.
受该法案约束的处于权威职位的公务员包括学校教师、校长和副校长、警察、法官以及其他执法官员。该法案已在加拿大最高法院受到挑战。
Public servants in positions of authority covered by that law includes school teachers, principals and vice-principals, police officers, judges and other law officers. That law has been challenged before Canada’s Supreme Court.
加拿大公民自由协会（CCLA）魁北克发言人兼基本自由主任阿娜伊斯·比西埃尔·麦克尼科尔在在一份声明中表示，魁北克在“首先禁止某些公共部门雇员”之后，“逐步扩大了对宗教表达的限制”，然后将其扩大到“公立学校、接受公共资助的私立学校以及公立或接受公共资助的日托中心的员工”。
麦克尼科尔表示：“我们再一次面临一个寻找问题解决方案的情况。而这一次，魁北克政府将矛头指向了儿童，向每一名小学生传递了排挤和拒绝差异的信息。”
In a statement, Anaïs Bussières McNicoll, Quebec spokesperson and Director of Fundamental Freedoms at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), said Quebec had “progressively expanded restrictions on religious expression” after it “first banned certain public sector employees” then extended it to “staff at public schools, publicly funded private schools, and public or publicly funded daycare centres.”“Once again, we’re faced with a solution in search of a problem. And this time, the Quebec government is targeting children, sending a message of exclusion and rejection of difference to every elementary school student,” McNicoll said.