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Pearl Eliadis on Religious Accommodation Under Quebec's Secularism Laws | HRReporter

Published: 21 April 2026

April 20, 2026 | Pearl Eliadis spoke to HRReporter on how Quebec's Bills 94 and 9 are reshaping religious accommodation. The "sleeper" issue for HR teams, Eliadis argues, is Bill 9's replacement of the "undue hardship" threshold with a "more than minimal hardship" standard, letting employers refuse religious accommodation on the basis of minor inconvenience. She frames the shift as part of a broader rejection of "the 'Canadian approach' to multiculturalism and tolerance," and notes the irony that Quebec's secularism, once tied to women's emancipation from the Catholic Church, now falls hardest on minority religious women.

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