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Quebec minister says schools
should discuss whether bras
should be compulsory
THE CANADIAN PRESS Updated: June 5, 2018
MONTREAL — Whether young women should be
forced to wear a bra in school is an "extremely
interesting" question, the cabinet minister
responsible for women's issues said Tuesday in
response to a recent bra -less protest.
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School administrations should take up the issue and discuss it, Helene David
told reporters.
"Is there a good answer, a bad answer? Personally, I am on the side of
freedom of choice, honestly," said David, reacting to news about a teenager
who arrived at a private, all -girls boarding school last week in Montreal without
wearing a bra and was told to cover up.
She refused and went home but, since then, her peers have chosen to support
her cause by also refusing to wear a bra.
A petition demanding the school change its rules has been signed by about
1,000 people.
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Schools should govern themselves as they see fit, David said, but they need to
open a dialogue with students who are asking important questions.
David called the young women who launched the protest "leaders with strong
personalities."
"In the 1970s, women used to burn their bras and say: `It's terrible, you won't
tell us how to dress.'
"And 50 years later, we are being told the same thing ... these girls are really
extraordinary, they are asking real questions."
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