Quebec Values: Pauline Marois Charter

Pauline Marois Charter: Official discrimination encourages bigots. Since news broke of Pauline Marois Charter of Quebec Values, there has been a rise in ugly incidents. A mosque in Saguenay was baptized with pigs blood. A woman in a Quebec City shopping mall was told to change her religion and remove her veil The government is going to force you to take it off, anyway and her 18-year-old son was spat upon. In Montreal, a hijabi was berated on a bus by a man: With Marois, we re going to take off your toque, according to The Star. It is not an answer to say they can wear their religious symbols after working hours, Kathleen Mahoney , professor of law at the University of Calgary, writes in the Globe and Mail. This amounts to the government mandating how citizens practise their religion and treating some citizens as less equal than others reminiscent of the dictatorial religious policies imposed during the Duplessis era and Bigotry is most dangerous when promoted by the state. Yet thats what Quebec is doing with its proposal to fire civil servants and public sector workers who wear the turban, the kippa or the hijab, and to prohibit such citizens from being hired in the future. The harassers were crude. Marois is sophisticated, rationalizing her discrimination in the lingo of state neutrality. But both have the same aim: yank the religious symbols off believers. They want them off permanently. She wants them off from 9 to 5 from those on public payroll. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.