Wednesday, 25 September 2013

response to the charter of values


On September 17th 2013 the Quebec government established the charter of values. this proposal makes it mandatory for any public servant wearing a religious symbol while working.the charter has cause a large up-roar of protests and worst of  all the majority of racists in Quebec feel that the government is now on their side, so as a side effect there is a relentless amount of racism targeting ethnicity and their establishments and even the people themselves are at risk of verbal degradation.

in response to this charter of values, lake ridge health center , a leading general hospital in the greater Toronto area has released a pamphlet featuring a woman wearing a hijab and a standard doctors uniform. the pamphlet read "We don't care what's on your head,  we care what's in it." due to the fact that in Montreal itself  we have the Jewish general hospital the lake ridge health center is likely to be taking in the majority of doctors who don't agree with the charter and what it imposes on public servants in Montreal.

Although its  mostly the people who need to change,  many religious symbols are being removed including the catholic cross from parliament and many other religious symbols. the outraged communities are  in a way revolting against the pq legislation by mass protests , noise protests, picketing , and public speaking.

personally this whole conundrum reminds me of many things like the riots brought about by the treyvon martin case and many of the riots and protests in  many fights for equality in our history  be it the fight to abolish slavery , the million man march and the fight for equality for women. all of our history is doomed to repeat itself , lest we learn from it.

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