Fréchette and Drainville say they won't water down Quebec's secularism laws

QUEBEC — Both Coalition Avenir Québec leadership candidates say they will maintain Quebec’s laws barring certain employees from wearing religious symbols in the workplace even if it means a loss of much needed labour. And while candidate Christine Fréchette pledged to maintain what she called the CAQ’s essential “DNA” of nationalism and economic development, candidate Bernard Drainville said he thinks the party needs a shake-up. In a first event pittin