This is pure, unadulterated Stalinism.
I have problems with articles that cover the face entirely because of identification issues, but to ban all symbols of religiosity is flat-out totalitarian.
I recommend anyone of any faith cease working for the local government.
I don’t know what is worse, tyranny like this or quailing out from carrying out what witness you can until they literally kill you. Actually I do know what is worse, it’s the latter.
This makes Quebec almost identical to France in their pathological fixation on secularism in all aspects of life. Interestingly, this is one of the reasons why France doesn’t have the same problems with radical Islam that England faces. A foreign-born radical imam can call for the overthrow of the British government from a mosque in London and collect welfare to pay his bills. The same imam can probably be deported without a trial in France.