Source: The Globe and Mail/Canadian Press

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On April 13, 2005 the Canadian Press reported, "Lawyers wrestled over whether a Sikh's ceremonial dagger is a weapon as the Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment yesterday in the case of a student prohibited from wearing one at his Montreal school.

Lawyers challenging a Quebec Court of Appeal decision banning the kirpan from schools said the metal dagger, which is bound, sheathed and strapped to Sikhs, cannot be considered a weapon and has never been used as one.

Those defending the Quebec decision said it cannot be considered anything else and warned that overturning the ruling could open the floodgates to weapons in school."