Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms

Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms: No, these words do not come from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms adopted in 1982 without Quebecs signature. Rather they comprise Section 3 of the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms passed unanimously by the National Assembly, including its Parti Qu b cois members, seven years before Canada got around to it. The 1975 Quebec charter is an admirable document, proudly proclaiming that rights and freedoms constitute the foundation of justice, liberty and peace and the rights and freedoms of the human person are inseparable from the rights and freedoms of others and from the common well-being, according to The Star. A Charter of Rights and a Charter of Values come from two very different places. The first recognizes the existing rights of individual citizens and minorities and pledges to respect them; the second denies some of those minority individuals some of their rights. One flows from the brilliance of the liberal-pluralist tradition; the other from the darkness that lurks at some level in all nationalisms and Every person is the possessor of the fundamental freedoms, including freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of opinion, freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association. Which should not but unfortunately does bring us to recent talk of a Charter of Quebec Values . In 1975, Quebecers rallied around the liberal precepts of the Quiet Revolution . But their current PQ government seems intent on entrapping the province in an ugly philosophical and political contradiction with its plan to deny public employment to those wearing religious symbols. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.