QC publishes report on investigation at Dawson, Vanier on secularism law

A report published by the Government of Québec Ministère de l’Éducation asserts that QC’s secularism law is not being consistently respected at Dawson College and Vanier College, according to the Journal de Québec. CTV states that the report highlights issues such as tensions created by political student groups and divergent interpretations of academic freedom. The report authors questioned the relevance of prayer rooms on a public campus. La Presse reports that the investigators found the cégeps to have acted diligently and in accordance with legal and ministerial frameworks; they called for QC to tighten laws and regulations applying to the cégep system. Dawson and Vanier released a joint statement in which they expressed surprise at receiving the report after the media, but said they were pleased that the report acknowledged “the rigour of our practices.”