Prayer, Ethics and Religious Culture

Starts
Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 7:00 pm
Location
PR Building, Rm 100, SGW campus, Concordia University, 2100 Mackay Street, Montreal, H1A0A1

The pesentation will address:

  1. The new Ethics and Religious Culture course which since September 2008 is obligatory in all Québec schools at all levels from primary through secondary, and which constitutes a serious violation of
    "laïcité" (secularism) despite the misleading blandishments emanating from the Ministry of Education.
  2. The MLQ's efforts to remove religious prayers from municipal council meeting, including successes in Montreal and Laval and positive developments in Saguenay and Trois-Rivières.

The MLQ is Quebec's oldest activist organization promoting secularism.  Founded some three decades ago to work for the secularisation of public schools, the MLQ's field of activity has widened since then, but the school system remains its major focus.