La Loi québécoise sur la laïcité de l’État (loi 21) a été validée en bonne partie par le jugement de la Cour supérieure du Québec, au grand soulagement de ses défenseurs craignant son invalidation par le Tribunal. Toutefois, le contenu de ce jugement est décevant à maints égards.
Dès le début du procès, il était clair que le juge Marc-André Blanchard penchait en faveur des contestataires de la loi. Dans son jugement de 240 pages, il adopte leurs arguments voulant que cette loi porterait atteinte aux droits fondamentaux des minorités, particulièrement ceux des femmes musulmanes. La loi n’a donc été validée que grâce à la disposition de dérogation, renouvelable tous les cinq ans, ce qui rend son avenir précaire.… Seguir leyendo »
A veil-wearing Muslim woman in Quebec can’t work as a provincial civil servant or a municipal garbage collector without removing her face covering. She’s prohibited from teaching, participating in P.T.A. meetings, paying her taxes in person or borrowing a book from the library while wearing her veil. When taking public transportation, she has a choice: show her face to the bus driver or order an Uber.
Canada is perhaps best known for its cheery multiculturalism and its equally cheery prime minister, Justin Trudeau. Yet Quebec, the province where Mr. Trudeau spent much of his life, last month put a ban on the face coverings worn by a handful of Muslim women, prompting a fractious debate over the place of non-Christian religions in Canada’s only French-speaking province.… Seguir leyendo »
It is easy to tut-tut the overindulgences of the American right. For Canadians, it is practically a birthright. None of our politicians, many of us would like to believe, would dare invoke the Trumpian galaxy of Mexican rapists, or ponder publicly, as the Republican nominee Ben Carson did, that Europe’s Jews would have fared better against Hitler if only the Third Reich hadn’t instituted gun control.
Yet over the last several weeks of an increasingly caustic election campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Canada’s ruling Conservative Party have managed to erase much of our trademark smugness.
Faced with a stalling economy and a corresponding dip in the polls, Mr.… Seguir leyendo »
In Quebec, Canada’s second most populous province, the governing Parti Québécois plans to prohibit government employees from wearing “overt and conspicuous” religious symbols while on the job. Everyone from judges to teachers would have to doff their hijabs, kippas, niqabs, turbans and outsize crucifixes. Day care centers would be forbidden to serve kosher or halal foods. Government workers would be allowed to cover their faces only for weather-related — not religious — reasons.
Bernard Drainville, the provincial minister responsible for the ban, part of a so-called Charter of Quebec Values, said it was necessary to “recognize and affirm some of the fundamental values that define us as Quebecers.”… Seguir leyendo »
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