Reasonable Accommodation: Parti Quebecois

Parti Quebecois: We believe that a majority of Quebecois would admit that a total ban on wearing religious symbols applied to all employees of the State, no matter the nature of their position, is abusive, wrote the co-presidents of a government commission on reasonable accommodation, a term that has made the improbable leap into popular Quebec usage, according to The Star. Five years later, the governing Parti Quebecois hopes to put the issue to rest once and for all with one of the most extreme fixes ever envisaged for a problem whose very existence is still being debated. If you receive a salary from the provincial government, and if you are obliged or inclined to wear your religion literally upon your sleeve, it promises to be the ultimate ultimatum: choose your job or your faith, because you cant have both and MONTREAL It was just a few lines in a 300-page study about Quebecs accommodations for religious minorities, but philosopher Charles Taylor and historian G rard Bouchard proved that having a big brain does not make one an accurate predictor of public opinion. Their words were written in 2008, after orthodox Jews in Montreal requested that the glass of a downtown YMCA be frosted lest their tempted children see the carnal outfits of exercisers. That demand for change triggered an existential crisis about Quebecs values, tolerance that has ebbed and flowed but has never really gone away. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.