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QUEBEC — Premier François Legault is calling on federal political leaders including Justin Trudeau to pledge they will have no part in legal challenges against the province’s state secularism law.

Legault told reporters Quebec’s democratically elected Coalition Avenir Québec government adopted Bill 21 in the National Assembly and it is supported by the vast majority of Quebecers.

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That means the law is “legitimate,” and federal politicians should butt out, he said.

“I am asking all federal parties to make sure and re-assure the population of Quebec that they won’t participate in any suit against Bill 21,” Legault told reporters as he emerged from a meeting of the Quebec cabinet.

“I want them to stay out of it — forever. Not for the moment, but forever.”

“It’s up to Quebecers to choose. Quebecers did choose. We can see the vast majority of Quebecers are for Bill 21, so I think it’s not a matter for the federal government.”