Bill 21 has made immigrants in Quebec grow even more attached to Canada
When then-premier Pauline Marois unveiled her sovereigntist Parti Québécois government’s proposed Charter of Quebec Values in 2013, she got an earful from an unlikely critic.former PQ premier Jacques Parizeau denounced the proposal to ban all public servants in Quebec from wearing religious symbols on the job, declaring that such a sweeping ban was neither necessary to protect Quebec’s secular identity nor helpful to the party’s ultimate goal of separating from Canada.
Ms. Marois’s minority government was defeated at the polls in early 2014 and its proposed charter died on the order paper. The debate over secularism in Quebec did not end there, however. It continued to gnaw at the political class for several years, culminating in the 2019 adoption of Bill 21 by Premier François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government.
“In the battle waged between the federal and Quebec governments for the loyalty and hearts of their constituents, Quebec appears to have lost ground to Canada among minority groups,” write Antoine Bilodeau of Concordia University and Luc Turgeon of the University of Ottawa.
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