Quebec adopted French-style secularism to ban the hijab

Evidence

Quebec’s Bill 21, which wielded the French principle of laïcité, or secularism, to inspire the second wave of the Hijab Ban in the lone francophone province in Canada. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 817

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s global-synthesis goal — states learning techniques from each other, here France exporting laïcité-based bans to its former colony.