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MONTREAL — Premier François Legault said Friday a school board in western Quebec should never have hired a woman who had to be removed from her teaching duties because she wears a hijab.

MONTREAL — Premier François Legault said Friday a school board in western Quebec should never have hired a woman who had to be removed from her teaching duties because she wears a hijab.

An elementary school teacher in western Quebec has been reassigned from her classroom because her hijab contravenes the provinces law forbidding teachers from wearing religious symbols.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not "closed the door" on legal action against a Quebec law that cost a teacher her job last week because of her hijab, his office said on Friday.

MONTREAL - Premier François Legault said Friday a school board in western Quebec should never have hired a woman who had to be removed from her teaching

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not closed the door on legal action against a Quebec law that cost a teacher her job last week because of her hijab, his office said on Friday.

Under Bill 21, some civil servants in positions of authority cannot wear religious symbols at work

The Western Quebec School Board confirms the Grade 3 teacher at Chelsea Elementary School was removed from the classroom because of Bill 21, Quebecs law that bans all religious symbols in public buildings.

MONTREAL — An elementary school teacher in western Quebec has been reassigned from her classroom because her hijab contravenes the province's law forbidding teachers from wearing religious symbols.

After a teacher in Chelsea, Que. lost her classroom job for wearing a hijab—in contravention of Bill 21—some provincial politicians doubled down, even saying the young woman did it intentionally to make a statement.