The Legault government will toughen up existing laws enforcing its policies on secularism, extending its ban on religious symbols to future employees of private schools and cutting — but not fully eliminating — funding to schools that base student recruitment on religion, according to multiple reports.

The latest measures, initially reported Monday evening, follows an online tease of the coming legislation by Jean-François Roberge, the province’s minister responsible for secularism.

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A 21-second video posted on the minister’s X account Monday evening shows writing by hand across the cover sheet of a copy of the proposed legislation with the words “C’est comme ça qu’on vit au Québec,” echoing the phrase used by Premier François Legault to justify Bill 21, the gove

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