Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, left, with Mohamed Labidi, vice president of the Islamic Cultural Center of Quebec. ( AFP/GETTY IMAGES )Quebec and all of Canada have been profoundly shocked by the mass murder at a mosque in Quebec City. A decade of toxic debates about supposed threats to Quebec values, about hijabs and niqabs and “reasonable accommodation,” has taken its toll. Any suggestion that the province has a special problem is just more “Quebec bashing,” they insisted. But it has been harder for Quebec society to face these issues squarely, for obvious historical reasons.

Source: thestar February 01, 2017 21:30 UTC