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\u201cDoes Quebec plan to banish dreadlocks?\u201d <\/i><\/b>
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\nBy Robert Frank<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) plans to give the Parti qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/i> government some homework to do during the holidays. <\/p>\n

During its last commissioners meeting of the year, Dec. 16, LBPSB chair Suanne Stein Day announced that on Friday this week, the board will submit its brief on Quebec\u2019s proposed values charter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brief was developed by myself, LBPSB commissioners Craig Berger and Linton Garner as well as Beaconsfield High School science teacher Nadia Naqvi,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe plan to take the same approach as we did to Bill 14,\u201d Stein Day told The Suburban,<\/i> referring to an unpopular law to tighten Quebec\u2019s language legislation that Premier Pauline Marois abandoned, earlier this year, in the face of overwhelming opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur brief will be direct and strong,\u201d she said in an interview following the commissioners meeting, \u201cand we are prepared to go and defend it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stein Day noted that Naqvi is a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab headscarf while she teaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer sister in New York City wears a full niqab,\u201d she added, referring to the full-facial covering worn by many women of the Arabian peninsula and elsewhere, \u201cand feels less prejudice walking the streets there than here in Quebec with a simple hijab.\u201d<\/p>\n

The school board chair also mused about whether Quebec intends to ban dreadlocks, the distinctive, matted coils of hair worn by many natives of Jamaica and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dreadlocks are a conspicuous expression of the Rastafarian faith,\u201d Stein Day observed.<\/p>\n

Rastafarians consider their flowing curls symbolic of the Lion of Judah, which traces its ancestry to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheeba through their son, Melenek I.<\/p>\n

Many African practitioners of shamanism also wear dreadlocks. LBPSB\u2019s brief will be submitted exactly one week after the National Assembly approved a petition proposed by Pearson\u2019s Central Parents Committee (CPC), Dec. 13.<\/p>\n

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\nCPC chair Laura Derry told The Suburban<\/i> that the petition is now available on the National Assembly web site<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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In addition, Valerie Cochennec, a non-voting student commissioner, told the meeting that the school boards Central Students Committee has also been debating its own position on the proposed Quebec values charter. <\/p>\n
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