Quebec's secularism law heads to Canada's Supreme Court

Canada's Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Quebec's Bill 21, which bars some public sector workers, including teachers, from wearing religious symbols.

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Lisa Robicheau describes her life as "stuck between a rock and a hard place".

The 41-year-old single mother of two, who wears a hijab, works in Montreal's English-language school system as a contract support worker for students with disabilities - a job she loves and where she is exempt from the current law.

But Robicheau can't help feeling anxious about her future and whether she will be able to continue working in a public school while being visibly Muslim in Quebec. The uncertainty has led her to enroll back in university, hoping to find a different job—or even leave the province.

"I've spent the majority of my life here, but it never feels like home," she told the BBC. "I am constantly being treated like an outsider."