Montreal: Muslim teachers lose licenses for trying to introduce ‘Islamist religious concepts into a public school’

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Quebec Premier François Legault said back in October 2024: “There is something very disturbing in this case. It is this attempt by a group of teachers to introduce Islamist religious concepts into a public school. In Quebec, we decided a long time ago to remove religion from public schools. We will never accept going back.”

In today’s far-left Canada, it’s astounding that these teachers had their licenses revoked. One would have expected their Islamic curriculum to become mandatory in all Canadian schools.

“All 11 teachers accused of creating toxic climate at Montreal school have their licences revoked,” by Cassandra Yanez-Leyton, CBC News, May 12, 2026:

All 11 teachers who were suspended in 2024 after being accused of fostering a toxic climate at a Montreal elementary school have had their licences revoked, according to the office of Quebec’s education minister.

Confirmation of the 11 licences being revoked came on the same day the Education Ministry made public a final report into the situation at Bedford elementary school.

The revocation of the licences is the latest development in a saga that reignited the debate around secularism in the province and raised concerns about religious indoctrination in Quebec schools.

Reporting by 98.5 FM’s Valérie Lebeuf followed by a government report released in June 2024 showed the teachers at the school — which is located in the city’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood — weren’t teaching subjects such as sex education or science and technology comprehensively….

The Bedford controversy motivated the Coalition Avenir Québec government to strengthen its secularism policies. This ultimately led to the government extending the religious symbols ban to all school staff who interact with students as well as daycare workers and establishing limits on public prayer.

In a brief statement to CBC News, the office for the education minister said the decision to revoke the 11 licences was made because of the findings of the 2024 investigation.

Bedford under watch
Bedford elementary school was placed under watch in the fall of 2024, a few months after the ministry’s investigation.

Reporting from 98.5 FM painted the picture of two groups — one mainly composed of people of North African origin — clashing with each other.

The ministry’s investigation specified, however, that the situation was not as clear-cut, and that there were teachers of North African origin in both groups….

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