Oh. That government has been campaigning on this for years now. I didn't even realize it would mean something different to the wider world. Of course it does. My bad. Yeah. It's all about veiled women. It's all very xenophobic, islamophobic.
In the 17th century, during a short peace between the French and the Iroquois, the French, with the Iroquois' permission (or even invitation, I'm not sure anymore), built a fort in the middle of the Iroquois heartland, close, if I recall correctly, to their capital.
The French were hopeful of a longterm peace and close friendship. But they learned from clergy who were among the Iroquois that there was a conspiration to kill all the French in a surprise attack.
The French in the fort were absolutely outnumbered and had no hope to survive even knowing of the attack.
So they worked each day to build a boat with which they'd flee on the river. Whenever Iroquois came to the fort, they hid the boat behind a false wall.
On the day before the attack, with the boat completed, as they knew the indigenous people had a tendency to fall asleep after eating a lot during feasts, they organized a feast and cooked a lot of food for the Iroquois. When predictably they fell asleep, they ran away with the boat and fled on the river to relative safety in their colonies on the St. Lawrence.
Québécois here. I'm surprised by the positive reception here.
First because normally, anything about Québec policies on reddit (unless it's on a Quebec-related sub) is received very negatively, and harshly so, while I may support, be neutral, or against but with understanding where it's coming from. But that may be a Reddit-Lemmy difference. And that's welcome. I don't expect people to agree with everything Quebec does, but I do value reason.
Second, because this time, I'm very much against. I'm an atheist, antitheist even. But what would banning headscarves in daycare centers even achieve? Do you think children growing up will be convinced to become Muslim because their educators were veiled? And for the negative impacts:
From what I see as a parent in Montreal, nearly half educators in anything daycare in the city are veiled. If they decide to stop working, it will have terrible economic effects.
Veiled women being made to feel unwelcome, antognized and ostracized.
So... is he liberal or socialist??