François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government is preparing to table another bill aimed at tightening the province’s secularism laws.

The legislation, expected Thursday, builds on a years-long effort to limit religion in the public sphere — a concept known in French as laicité.

The coming bill has already drawn criticism from religious groups and civil liberties advocates.

New secularism bill to ban prayer in schools, restrict offering of religion-based meals

Here’s how the province arrived at this latest chapter.

Before the CAQ

The secularism debate has been simmering in the province well before the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) came to power.

Analysis The roots of Quebec's secularism debate, why it isn't going away

In 2007, the Liberal government under Jean Charest orde

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