Colby Cosh on the real reason to fear Quebec’s charter of values

Just two articles today. Colby Cosh noting the perverse impact of English Canada negative comment on the proposed Charte des valeurs québécoises in terms of inflaming Québec-Canada tension and helping the PQ’s political objective of creating a wedge issue. While he has a point, the nature of the proposed measure is xenophobic at best, bordering on racism at worst, with the worst political motives behind it.

Colby Cosh on the real reason to fear Quebec’s charter of values – Colby Cosh, Opinion – Macleans.ca.

And Warren Kinsella in the Sun, noting the history lessons from the 1936 Oldenberg degrees against the Catholic Church, and how they were overturned by popular pressure, given how central faith is to their identity.

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