QUEBEC, Canada’s “French province”, has brought the hammer down on Islamic immigrants attempting to make their religion a public and separate part of Canadian society.
Unknown to most Australians, Quebec has paved the way in demonstrating how a western community can use the tradition of western church-state toleration against the inroads of militant, public Islam.
Quebec, for the past decade, has been run by a political party that aligns with One Nation – nationalist and supporting cultural homogeneity.
Canada’s Federal Parliament is dominated by ex-banker Mark Carney’s Liberal Party, that aligns with Australian and UK Labor Party governments, and in some respects, is even more leftist.
A decade ago the Coalition Avenir Québeca was elected to run the province, ending 50 years of domination by two parties but subjected to the federal policies of the leftist Liberals, including open-door immigration, including a large number of Moslems.
When Quebecans found themselves dealing with a series of pro-Palestinian protests featuring open-air Moslem prayers on the streets in the Montreal city centre outside the main Catholic cathedral, the outgoing Premier François Legault said “no more”. (The new Premier is Christine Fréchette.)
On April 2nd, Legault and his party passed Bill 9, an Act Respecting the Reinforcement of laicité, the term defining France’s legal separation of religion and state, first passed in 1905.
The Act specifically bans:
– Group prayer on any public road, park or public space without the explicit permission, case by case, of municipal approval by resolution;
– Designated prayer rooms in universities and public community colleges;
– Day care workers at subsidized centres wearing religious symbols, particularly the hijab;
– Full face coverings for staff and students at day care centres, public colleges and universities;
– Religiously prescribed meals at public hospitals (halal, kosher etc)
– Private religious schools with public funding selecting staff and students on the basis of religious belief.
This is now law in the province of Quebec, Canada, and the legislators have preemptively shielded it from action under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedom, that would undoubtedly have had Quebec fighting endless legal actions.
Dr Steve Turley notes that Mari Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Rally nationalists, has an entire apologetic on “how the unique form of French secularism, known as laicité, is actually dependent on Christianity and Christian civilization.”
“Le Pen argues that Christianity provides the church-state distinction upon which laicité is grounded, and if you get rid of the overt supremacy of Christianity in your land and in your heart, the French will lose their nation to a religion that knows no such sacred state distinction, like Islam.”
Turley insists the Quebec law is not a crackdown on Christianity, but an extension of “distinctly French civilizational Christianity”.
One Nation needs to be in possession of that document, because Australia, like France, is a nominally Christian nation, whose politicians read the Lord’s Prayer at the opening of Parliament.
