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The battle over Quebec’s religious symbols ban is underway.

A legal challenge filed in Superior Court on Monday calls the bill a blatant attack on religious liberty and contrary to the rule of law. It argues that Bill 21 coerces people to abandon their deepest held convictions if they want to belong to Quebec society.

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Bill 21 prevents certain civil servants — including police officers, judges and public school teachers — from wearing religious symbols and garb on the job.

But the legal case against Quebec’s secularism law won’t come down to religious freedom, discrimination on the basis of sex or any other point that leans on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In passing the law late Sunday, the Coalition Avenir Québec government invoked the notwithstanding clause, which allows it to circumvent sections of the Charter. And so, the battle to have Bill 21 thrown out will be waged on a set of procedural arguments.