More than a thousand people demonstrated on Sunday in Quebec against the wearing of masks at school, compulsory from the age of 10 in establishments in the French-speaking province. " What brings us together is to tell the government not to touch our children and that the mask at ten does not make sense, " said one of the organizers, radio host Eric Duhaime, quoted by Radio Canada.
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In addition to opponents of the wearing of masks in general, families had come to protest on the eve of the start of the school year against the authorities' decision to impose masks at school for children from ten years old.
Quebec Minister of Education Jean François Roberge recently announced that students aged 10 and over should wear the mask in school transport as well as in common places in Quebec schools, but that they could dispense with it. once installed in their classrooms.
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Several anti-mask demonstrations, notably attracting followers of conspiracy theories, have taken place in recent weeks in Quebec and Montreal.