After Quebec complains, Supreme Court justice recuses himself from Bill 21 challenge

A Supreme Court of Canada justness says he will not participate successful deliberations astir whether nan precocious tribunal will perceive an entreaty to Quebec’s secularism law, known arsenic Bill 21.

Justice Mahmud Jamal says successful a missive issued Tuesday by nan tribunal registrar that while there’s nary ineligible ground for him to recuse himself, he has decided to retreat to debar being a distraction.

Last week, Quebec’s lawyer wide and different groups called connected Jamal to measurement distant from nan lawsuit because he served arsenic president of nan Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s committee of board erstwhile nan group challenged Bill 21 successful Superior Court successful 2019.

Jamal initially said he had nary volition of sidelining himself from nan case, erstwhile nan rumor was first raised connected June 25.

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In February, Quebec’s Court of Appeal upheld nan province’s secularism law, which prohibits immoderate nationalist assemblage workers from wearing belief symbols connected nan job.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and different groups person sought time off to entreaty that determination to nan Supreme Court, which has not yet said whether it will perceive nan case.