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Jason Kenney

Jason Kenney: This should not be seen as a Canada vs. Quebec issue, Kenney told s Question Period. I know that the separatist government would like to frame it that way, according to CTV. Kenney said that many Quebecers, including municipal politicians in the Montreal region and even very serious Quebec nationalist commentators, have criticized the PQs values charter, which needs approval from the legislature before it can become law and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney says Quebecs proposed charter of values, which would ban religious clothing and symbols in public-sector workplaces, should not be seen as a divide between the province and the rest of the country. Earlier this week, the provinces minority Parti Quebecois government unveiled a contentious plan to prevent public sector employees, including hospital workers, teachers and police officers, from wearing hijabs, niqabs, turbans, kippas and other ostentatious religious symbols, such as large crucifixes, while at work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.