I like this debate on the state’s secularism/religious neutrality but it’s too bad the PQ government has wasted the opportunity by introducing such a poorly thought out charter. They could have done something really valuable and instead came up with a biased piece of legislation, which does a bad job setting foundations for keeping religion at bay from unduly influencing the state.
This CBC article was interesting in how it weighed in from philosopher Jocelyn Maclure’s perspective (Maclure helped on the Bouchard-Taylor report previously). http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/08/21/f-charter-quebec-values-jocelyn-maclure.html
And then Taylor speaks up against this as well. I was so impressed when our former government had Taylor and Bouchard put so much effort into developing a really interesting analysis on these issues and now it’s a pretty unfortunate state we’re in where the current government squanders it all.