the ruling makes sense. and, i agree that this dress code should be specific to public sector employees when they are at work, and not apply to day-to-day life.
i'm sorry, but i reject the entire premise that religious freedom should be protected by the law at all. this is a dress code, a church is a political organization and this woo about religious belief should be struck from the law altogether. do you think that's a conservative argument? because i don't....
but, i actually think that the supreme court will be more likely to overturn the exemption for english boards than overturn the entire law - that's a quebec thing that doesn't apply in broader generality. you can ask the quebec courts to rule on the quebec charter and deduce that english schools should have minority rights, but when you ask the supreme court to rule on the canadian charter, the issue becomes 100% about quebec sovereignty.
like i say - i think the issue is about political symbols in the workplace because i reject the idea that religion is different than politics. that's why i support the ban. but, that's not going to be heard in court. and, while i got the court wrong in my initial analysis, this ruling was predictable, nonetheless - and is likely to be upheld on appeal.