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Daycares: Quebec wants to end admissions based on religion

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The Canadian Press
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27 Mar 2025
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The Quebec government is overhauling the admissions policies for subsidized daycare centres (CPEs) to eliminate selection based on language, culture, or religion.

The Minister for Families, Suzanne Roy, has just tabled a bill to introduce a single “national and uniform” admissions policy for subsidized childcare centres. The minister said that an inventory had revealed nearly 2,000 admission policies.

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The government will also ban material designed to teach a religious belief, dogma or practice.

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