He joins his co-author Charles Taylor in condemning the latest draft bill before the legislature
Gérard Bouchard, the academic whose report provided the intellectual foundation for Quebec’s attempts to regulate religious dress in the public service, has joined his co-author Charles Taylor in condemning the latest draft bill before the legislature.
Several efforts to organize opposition surfaced on Friday alone. Le Devoir published a letter from about 250 academics calling on the government to withdraw the bill and describing it as discriminatory and anti-religious. Mr. Taylor was among the authors. He disavowed his own report two years ago, and has already called the bill “deplorable.”
Mr. Legault has made a “grave error” and perhaps “yielded to demagoguery” by equating the coercive power of law enforcement with the authority of an educator, Mr. Bouchard wrote in La Presse. The sociologist said his intention 11 years ago was to find a compromise that would stick to secular principles but do the least amount of harm by limiting the ban to people with the power to arrest and incarcerate – judges, prosecutors, police and jail guards.
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