'Problematic' and a 'dog's breakfast': Quebec face-covering ban panned by authors of landmark report

 

Bouchard and Taylor's 2008 report aimed to reconcile Quebec's identity and minority rights

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A new Quebec law purported to deal with secularism and the accommodation of minorities is being called a "dog's breakfast" of contradictions by one of the authors of a landmark study of the issue.

The other author of the study says it would be "problematic" in its application.

In their 2008 report, sociologist Gérard Bouchard and philosopher Charles Taylor offered solutions aimed at assuaging concerns about the erosion of Quebec identity while respecting the rights of minorities.