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Loyola High School has won its six-year legal battle over the mandatory ethics and religious culture course taught in Quebec schools.

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In a decision published Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada ordered Quebec’s Department of Education to grant the private Catholic boys’ school the exemption it had sought from teaching the course and “to offer an equivalent course to the ERC Program in line with Loyola’s proposal and the guidelines we have outlined.”

The Supreme Court ruled that the Education Department’s decision infringed on Loyola’s right to religious freedom.

The decisions caps a legal battle launched by the private Catholic boys school in Montreal six years ago when the course became part of the curriculum in Quebec schools.