{"id":5363,"date":"2013-08-21T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2013-08-21T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T13:40:50","slug":"poutinesque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5363","title":{"rendered":"Poutinesque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With their raison-d&#8217;etre of separatism neutralized, one would have hoped the PQ would set to work trying to turn around Quebec&#8217;s economy. Instead&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/m.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/parti-quebecois-under-fire-over-proposal-to-ban-religious-symbols\/article13869072\/?service=mobile\"><em>this<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Quebec is heading into another fierce debate over the future of religious freedom in the province with the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois government set to release a Charter of Quebec Values that could ban religious headwear everywhere from daycares to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a news report suggested that the minority government of Premier Pauline Marois wants to prohibit public employees from wearing items such as hijabs, turbans and kippas, in a broad ban that could extend from elementary and university teachers to nurses and child-care workers.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But the PQ\u2019s supposed remedy to such cases, as outlined in the Journal de Montr\u00e9al, suggests that the Marois government can expect significant blowback on the issue. Critics called the reported proposals divisive, draconian, and even reminiscent of Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Human-rights lawyer Julius Grey, who has fought numerous constitutional cases, says the rules would likely fail a challenge under freedom-of-religion provisions in the Canadian Charter of Rights. Because Quebec\u2019s new rules would reportedly exempt private schools, the proposals risk driving minorities into separate, religious-based schools, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their raison-d&#8217;etre of separatism neutralized, one would have hoped the PQ would set to work trying to turn around Quebec&#8217;s economy. Instead&#8230;this: Quebec is heading into another fierce debate over the future of religious freedom in the province with the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois government set to release a Charter of Quebec Values that could ban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[1228],"class_list":["post-5363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quebec-politics","tag-pauline-marois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5365,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions\/5365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}