“The only other language that we accept on the show is the Indigenous languages, because they were there prior to us,” said Pierre Séguin, co-artistic director and stage director of the Fête nationale blowout taking place Thursday night at Place des Festivals.
Montreal's Fête nationale show open to everyone, but en français s'il vous plaît (msn.com)
13 July 2022
Raymond J. de Souza: In Legault's Quebec, there's no room for religious expression, or diversity of thought
The distinct society only has room for a limited sort of distinctiveness
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/raymond-j-de-souza-in-legaults-quebec-theres-no-room-for-religious-expression-or-diversity-of-thought?fbclid=IwAR34Rzth2_qkueEpw9PmUeBikzGs2Re8yNOQ3IR-cLVRmKuy2uZf2fQLctQ
Wajsman: The hits just keep on coming
This is fascist talk. And we use that word advisedly. Every society that has actively and aggressively enforced collective rights over individual rights has resulted in authoritarian governance and moral and physical destruction of individuals and minorities. Every society that has maintained the predominance of individual rights over the tyranny of the majority, has maintained a healthy democracy whose foundational underpinning is the rule of law. This was the organizing pri…
The hits just keep on coming | Editorials | thesuburban.com06 July 2022
Johnson: Canadian Multiculturalism Falsified
The Gazette’s Philip Authier got it wrong. In the edition of August 9, 2019, he wrote: “While multiculturalism is used to refer to a society where people of different cultural backgrounds live side by side without much integration...”
False. Multiculturalism, as vested in Canada’s constitution in 1982, does not isolate cultural minorities. On the contrary, it celebrates their contribution to Canada’s diverse culture. Pierre Trudeau proclaimed it as a national policy in 1971 and explained:
Canada's citizens come from almost every country in the world and bring with them every major world religion and language. This cultural diversity endows all Canadians with a great variety of human experience. The Government regards this as a heritage to treasure and believes that Canada would be poorer if we adopted assimilation programs forcing our citizens to forsake and forget the cultures they have brought to us.
Multiculturalism, as he defined it, was not to be an isolated policy. It was to be “a policy of multiculturalism within a bilingual framework.”
He qualified: Although there are two official languages, there is no official culture, nor does any ethnic group take precedence over any other. No citizen or group of citizens is other than Canadian and all should be treated fairly.”
Robert Libman: New parties merit respect; so do those who vote for them
Very little is as demeaning as having a finger wagged in your face and being admonished about how to behave. That’s the feeling I get when reading or hearing former Liberal MNAs warning the anglophone community against supporting any new political alternative to the Liberal Party of Dominique Anglade in the fall election.
To me it shows a disconnect with what many in the community are feeling right now. It also seems like the same kind of condescension that has contributed to the community’s sentiment over the years that the Liberals take them for granted. Successive Liberal administrations of Jean Charest and Philippe Couillard could count on having the anglo vote locked up, because the only alternative was a separatist option.
With the introduction of Bill 96 by the CAQ government, the sense of political alienation in minority communities intensified. The Liberals were evasive at first on where they stood, promising to get changes to the bill in committee. Their likely intention was to support it and then tell minority communities they succeeded in making the bill more palatable. Many weren’t buying it, and talk started swirling around the need for other political options.
Robert Libman: New parties merit respect; so do those who vote for them (msn.com)
Muslim, civil liberties groups to appeal Quebec court ruling on religious symbols law
MONTREAL _ Two groups that unsuccessfully challenged Quebec’s secularism law in court said Thursday they will appeal last month’s ruling.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association said in a statement Thursday the law known as Bill 21 makes Quebecers who wear symbols such as hijabs, turbans and kippas second-class citizens.
“We promised that we would not stop fighting until second-class citizenship ends for all Quebecers,” said Yusuf Faqiri, the council’s director of Quebec affairs.
https://montreal.citynews.ca/2021/05/06/muslim-civil-liberties-groups-to-appeal-quebec-court-ruling-on-religious-symbols-law/?fbclid=IwAR1HI5l32GT8Dh-O42O50NvkN8NY3cM9tF6H1dUO-gQP_dOhsX6uKqHdxhQ
La nation québécoise face à ses responsabilités
La nation québécoise doit garder le cap – être un phare démocratique et inclusif dans un monde où xénophobie, populisme et corruption dénaturent le débat public et menacent la paix sociale. Elle doit montrer qu’elle sait utiliser ses pouvoirs, son autonomie, pour résister à ces dérives. Pour être une nation dont on puisse continuer d’être fiers.
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