Maria Mourani

Maria Mourani: The federal wing of Quebecs sovereignty movement dumped Maria Mourani, a respected Montreal criminologist who was born to a Lebanese family in the Ivory Coast, after a one-two punch in which she denounced the proposal to ban public workers from wearing religious symbols, according to The Star. Then on Thursday, her fate was sealed following the publication in Montreals Le Devoir of an open letter in which she and 19 other current and former players in Quebecs sovereigntist movement denounced the PQ plan as discriminatory, ill-considered and a barrier to building new supporters for an eventual third run at independence and MONTREAL The day after Premier Pauline Marois invited Quebecers to debate her governments charter of values, the Bloc Qu b cois caucus dropped from five to four after one of its MPs spoke out against the controversial proposal. First, Mourani revealed in a Radio-Canada debate that the idea of a charter which she said was equivalent to ethnic nationalism has been causing the PQ to lose members, candidates and donors. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.