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QUEBEC — Premier François Legault has denounced as racist an incident in which a man told NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to cut off his turban to look Canadian.

“It’s unacceptable,” Legault told reporters arriving for question period. “With Bill 21, it’s clear that people can wear religious symbols in the street, like Mr. Singh.

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“It’s unacceptable that somebody said something like that.

“There are some people who are racist in Quebec. It’s not a systemic racism but some people are racist and we have to fight against that.”

Asked if it is clear in his mind the man who approached Singh was racist, Legault said, “Yes.”

And Legault said Bill 21, the government’s secularism law, which bars some public workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols, will actually fight racism because it makes it clear people can wear symbols in public.

“In putting parameters, it is now clear,” Legault said. “And I can tell everybody people can wear a religious sign on the street. Come on. That’s clear.