Bill 21: several ways of looking at it
Compare and contrast: CBC and CTV report on groups hoping to bring an appeal of the Loi sur la laïcité de l’État (Bill 21) to Canada’s Supreme Court. At the same time CBC has a long report on how Mathieu Bock-Côté and friends want to build on the law and strengthen it as well as the language laws to enforce a single culture in Quebec.
Jack 18:42 on 2019-12-18 Permalink
Really good article by Simon Nakonechny of the CBC.
What amazes me is the fact that that event could only attract less than a 100 people.
Yet because of Quebecor’s platforms, what they decide and promote becomes almost consensual in French media and therefore consciousness.
Bock Cotes real strength is not his arguments, they are lame and easy to push back, but the fact he and his small band can repeat them over and over in the Journal, 24 hres, TVA and LCN.
His power is his ability to conflate his narrow conservative nationalist vision into a conceit that he speaks for a large segment of society. Read the article , look at what this marginal group is obsessing about, pick up a Journal or watch La Joute and like magic these issues become actual.
One thing that becomes more and more obvious about this group is that short and long term their real goal is simple, ethnic supremacy.
Chris 09:55 on 2019-12-19 Permalink
Jack, with regards to 21, that’s part of the story, but not all of it.
Guess what, some people sincerely and thoughtfully hold a view different that you! That does not automatically mean they are the victim of a vast media conspiracy.
What about brown women from Muslim countries that escaped theocracy and support 21? Are they just Quebecor zombies? Are they ethnic supremacists?
(I also think it’s a mistake to assume that the support for 21 that currently exists will automatically translate into support for the expansions Nakonechny describes.)
Jack 17:54 on 2019-12-19 Permalink
Thanks for your reply. I agree that some people can have different opinions and look at this law from the perspective of their upbringing in Tunisia, Algeria and Iran, I get that.
This is Quebec in 2019 and the motives and rationale for this law were built in the fear mongering of the “accommodations reasonable debate”… period. Chris their is no Islamist theocracy that is about to demand our daughters wear a scarf , no sharia law, no Pork ban in sugar shacks etc.
This law was built to tell people, who do not like the site of people who are different amongst them, that they have power. This law makes them feel better, stronger, they can tell people what they can or can not wear to be full citizens. This law targets the most marginal members of our society to make political hay in areas where these people do not even exist.
The most muscular discussions I ever had on this topic were with my cousins , who fully supported all and everything about this legislation. They were born, raised and live….in La Tuque.