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Education Minister Bernard Drainville ordered the ban after reports of at least two Montreal-area schools permitting students to gather on school property for prayer.
The order comes after Bernard Drainville said earlier this month that he had learned of at least two Montreal-area schools permitting students to gather for prayer.
Quebec Premier François Legault was criticized as being hypocritical for championing state secularism but also romanticizing the Catholic religion.
Muslim groups are speaking out against the Quebec government's intention to ban prayer spaces in public schools, saying they will monitor how the new rules are enforced.
Premier François Legault reignited the debate about his party's conception of secularism in Quebec on Easter Monday with a tweet celebrating the perceived Catholic origins of the province's "culture of solidarity."