POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hijab, Canadian Identity
25 Feb 2014
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History of the topic: the topic of identity is very important to quebec since it is the only french. They have always felt that another group could erode their values. There is no crisis, but rather a perception of one. Bouchard and taylor says that there should be a secularism model for quebec, meaning political leaders couldn"t favor a religion, but people could still wear their religious symbols to school. This is one way of looking at how religion functions in a society. The argument of the government: state neutrality is a liberal idea. It seeks to intervene as little as possible into the religious practices of an individual. Immigration in canada: there are people from all over the world in canada. Canada"s population is rising due to immigration (3% muslim). This introduces a challenge for government, hence why the quebec government is concerning them with this challenge.
