Quebec's Solution to a Non-Problem

Good for the three federal political parties. Unanimously, the Conservatives, New Democrats and Liberals have lined up against the provisions in the proposed Charter of Quebec Values. These policies would ban government employees, with some exceptions, from wearing religious symbols, ostensibly in the name of non-discrimination and secularism. But the issue runs much deeper, to one of human dignity and tolerance of difference. On both tests, the Quebec initiative fails, as all federal parties now acknowledge, along with the Quebec Liberal Party and the left-wing Québec Solidaire.