The Parti Quebecois' failed secularism charter might be gone but it's not forgotten, as evidenced in some heated chatter from the province's political circles Friday.
Quebec’s justice department was never asked by the Marois government for its legal opinion on the constitutionality and legality of the secularism charter, a new letter reveals.
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The Parti Quebecois' stunning electoral failure was due to worries over a referendum and was not a condemnation of the PQ's attempt at legislating a ban on religious symbols in the workplace, according to PQ MNA Bernard Drainville.
Liberal leader Philippe Couillard is pledging to publish legal opinions that the PQ government solicited concerning their Charter of Values legislation.
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Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois says if the Charter of Values becomes law, the government will help those who may lose their public service jobs find new ones.
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For months the PQ said it would not be necessary to use the notwithstanding clause to bring the Charter of Values into effect. Liberal leader Philippe Couillard said the PQ has embarked on a Machiavellian plan.
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Quebec icon Janette Bertrand believes that a “danger” is creeping up on Quebec society -- that of “fundamentalists” who in “chipping away” at rights, threaten the gender equality, and we’re better off preventing it than dealing with it case-by-case, she said.
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A couple of hundred demonstrators voiced their opposition to what they described s “racism and the charter of values” in a march that kicked off outside the Mount Royal metro station at 6 p.m. Friday.
Cabinet minister and Parti Quebecois candidate Bernard Drainville was in Montreal Wednesday in an attempt to shift the focus of the election campaign back to the Charter of Values.
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La Pinière MNA Fatima Houda-Pepin is poised to run as an independent candidate in the upcoming Quebec provincial election but needs to raise some money fast.
Canada's ambassador for religious freedom says the issue came up as he was discussing minority rights in Turkey with a representative of the government there.
Fatima Houda-Pepin tore a strip off of her former leader Philippe Couillard at a press conference Wednesday, blasting his approach to the PQ's secularism charter Bill 60.
An association that represents 3,600 Quebec medical residents has come out against Bill 60, the proposed secularism charter that would ban the wearing of many religious symbols by provincial government employees.
The board has said repeatedly that the Charter is nothing less than an attempt to bully minorities in Quebec, and that should the law ever come to pass it will not be obeyed.
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