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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada's new special representative on combating Islamophobia is the perfect person to help Canadians grapple with difficult conversations about religion.
The column, co-written with former Canadian Jewish Congress CEO Bernie Farber, cited polling data to say that"a majority of Quebecers" who supported Bill 21 also held anti-Muslim views. Quebec's Bill 21 has been heavily criticized — including by Trudeau — for discriminating against members of religious minorities by banning them from wearing religious symbols at their public-service workplaces.
He said it is important to him that all Canadians understand that before the Quiet Revolution, Quebecers"suffered the yoke and the attacks on individual rights and freedoms of an oppressive church."
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