An independent committee's 50 recommendations to Quebec, including extending the province's religious symbols ban to subsidized daycares and requiring people to uncover their faces when receiving public services, are drawing criticism from some community leaders.

"We really have to ask some serious questions about the legitimacy of this report," said Stephen Brown, president of the National Council of Canadian Muslims.

He said the nearly 300-page report released on Tuesday offering recommendations to strengthen secularism in Quebec is not suggesting that the government "proceed in the spectrum of neutrality."

"Neutrality is the absence of an opinion. In this case, what we're really looking at is recommendations for the government to take away the rights of religious people and to impose

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