Parti Québécois says ban on religious symbols is for authority figures

The Parti Québécois scrambled into damage control Sunday after delegates at its policy convention appeared to vote for a return to the party’s old idea of banning all religious symbols in the civil service.
Moments after news emerged that a motion saying civil servants should display total religious neutrality on the job sailed through the plenary at the party’s policy convention, Taschereau MNA Agnès Maltais, the PQ’s critic on the secularism file, ar