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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Conveniently implemented to the Bill might be more accurate. The Bill was created to deny religious freedoms to newcomers while preserving Québec's Catholic history. No one can deny that.
Removing the cross in the Assembly was the absolute minimum they could do in order to not look like complete hypocrites. When the story (removal of the cross) was posted on Facebook, most of the comments were racially charged, blaming new immigrants for its removal, when in reality, it was brought on by this xenophobic Bill.
I'm a little off topic, so I'll try not to further comment on this.
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The key word in your post is "history".
Even before Bill 21, any progress of Catholicism or Christianity in the public sphere was verboten.
Yes, public schools with crosses in the stonework and named St-François-d'Assise did not have their façades stripped and maybe the name was not changed. But when they are renovated all the religious stuff disappears, and when two schools merge or a new school opens it's never under a religious name.
So if you merge École Notre-Dame and École St-Paul, it will always have a name like École des Quatre-Saisons.