Marois believes Quebec will rally behind controversial secular charter – The Globe and Mail

2013/08/26 Leave a comment

Looks like it will be an ugly fall, with the PQ clearly planing to push their exclusionary and xenophobic Charte des valeurs québécoises. While I understand the particular sensitivities of Québec being a francophone minority in Anglo-Saxon (and Spanish) North America, excluding a wide-range of people from participating in government work has no justification.

Marois believes Quebec will rally behind controversial secular charter – The Globe and Mail.

Initial poll below is not encouraging (75% support for these restrictions) – but we shall see how the debate progresses in Québec and the degree to which the more open, tolerant and welcoming nature of Québec gets expressed.

Laïcité: fort appui au PQ  

Filed under Charte des valeurs québécoise, Interculturalisme, Multiculturalism Tagged with , , ,

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