Canada allow kirpan in school
School ban on Sikh daggers not justified, says Supreme Court.
JIM BROWN Thu Mar 2, 11:08 AM ET 2006
OTTAWA (CP) - A Montreal school board went too far in imposing a
blanket ban on the wearing of Sikh ceremonial daggers by students,
says the Supreme Court of Canada.
In an 8-0 judgment Thursday, the court overturned a decision that
barred teenager Gurbaj Singh Multani from wearing the dagger, known
as a kirpan, to class. The court said a total ban can't pass muster
under the Charter of Rights, because the policy infringes the
constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.
A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled in Gurbaj Singh's favour in
2002, saying he could carry the kirpan under certain conditions -
for example, if he kept it sewn into a cloth envelope to be worn
beneath his clothing.
Quebec Court of Appeal reversed that decision in 2004, ruling that
the school board had the power to impose a total ban.
2.Can we do anything in the name of freedom?I dunt favour
this ruling.
