And it may well dominate the remaining weeks of the leadership campaign, starting with Sunday’s French-language debate in Montreal. Now, the only Quebec candidate for his succession is arguing that it is possible for the NDP to simultaneously champion religious freedoms across Canada without opposing a Quebec bid to limit them. “I am making it clear that, above all, an NDP leader must respect Quebec’s national character.”Really! In his paper, Caron argues that a two-tier NDP policy on religious rights is the way to go to show Quebecers that the party takes the province’s national character to heart. Over the past few years the PQ and the federal Conservatives have both flirted with measures that would have curbed some religious freedoms.

Source: thestar August 25, 2017 22:01 UTC