QUEBEC — Clamping down on organized crime, sex offenders and protests, Quebec Public Security Ian Lafrenière introduced a sweeping crime bill Wednesday that would ban gang symbols, create a sex offenders’ registry and place new restrictions on demonstrations.

At the legislative session’s kickoff in September, Premier François Legault had promised anti-crime measures, identifying law and order as a key priority for his government.

The law would allow the public security minister to designate and forbid symbols identified with criminal organizations. The government argues that organized crime uses such symbols to intimidate, extort and even recruit new members.

It would ban protests within 50 metres of elected officials’ homes and enact a list of objects forbidden at protests.

That list

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