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> The drivers, who followed Sikh traditions by wrapping their uncut hair in turbans, said bosses asked them to remove the turbans.

Ironically, Quebec has made it a law now.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-laicity-secul...

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Ontario has a law allowing Sikhs to wear turbans instead of motorbike helmets:

https://globalnews.ca/news/4533568/ontario-government-to-exe...

> ban public workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols.

> public workers

public worker in a position of authority

So it applies only to specific subsets of public roles (police, judge, etc).

It also applies to teachers, but I am not sure this was a good idea.

Switzerland has a similar law too https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/church-and-state_geneva-secular...

AFAIK the best-known example of this is France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_law_on_secularity_and_c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_scarf_controversy_in_F...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%C3%AFcit%C3%A9

Following the footsteps of the mother country I guess.

I wonder why does rest of Canada allows Québec to act as a rogue province.

France's laws are a lot more universal I thought, not limited to certain jobs.

IIRC, Some sects of Sikhs do not insist (or perhaps even shun) the wearing of the turban. I think the original core population of Sikhs that emigrated to Canada were mostly these non-Khalsa Sikhs.

I'd say this is not entirely correct. There is no sect of Sikhism that shuns the turban to the best of my knowledge. And, I think there is this gross misunderstanding that you have to wear the turban to be a Sikh. As a Khalsa, you have to have unshorn hair, and turban is a practical way to cover it up. In fact, turban isn't mandatory when looking at the technicalities (there are a lot of Sikhs who might disagree with me on this). The Kes (unshorn hair) are. And, that too is a requirement only for Khalsa. I'm a Sikh (not Khalsa), but I keep unshorn hair and wear a turban because I like it. And, there are a lot of people like myself. A lot of non-Khalsa Sikhs wear turbans as a step towards the path to becoming a Khalsa.

Not sure how you got that from that link. There's a whole section on different religious associations. It points out that it's a religious requirement for Sikhs - observant baptised Sikhs are required to wear a turban.

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