Bill 21 is offensive, both in impact and historic implications
Quebec’s Bill 21 banning religious symbols worn by government employees and those using government services is poorly drafted, offensive in most respects, and almost inadvertently acceptable in one policy area. It falls in the lengthy Quebec tradition of a grandstanding political gesture of limited consequences in practice, but based on the chief legal-philosophical difference between the civil and common law systems; in this country between the French and English legal traditions.
Maurice Duplessis and his contemporaries seriously believed that the Anglo-Saxons were making a dangerous mistake allowing fascists and communists to exploit democratic freedoms to agitate for the overthrow of democracy, and this was an arguable position. In countries where the armed forces are constitutionally established as the guardians of democracy, such as Turkey and Algeria, they have intervened at times to prevent anti-democratic parties from winning elections.
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