The Legault government will toughen up existing laws enforcing its policies on secularism, extending its ban on religious symbols to future employees of private schools and cutting — but not fully eliminating — funding to schools that base student recruitment on religion, according to multiple reports.

The latest measures, initially reported Monday evening, follows an online tease of the coming legislation by Jean-François Roberge, the province’s minister responsible for secularism. Article content

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