The charter of values could avert a crisis

Most Canadians are naive and complacent when it comes to culture and immigration, perhaps the result of a lifetime too far from the ancient enmities of ancestral lands and generations with no knowledge of war or deprivation.

Quebec can see coming what Canada cannot, and gets labelled racist and fascist when it acts to prevent it. In the rest of Canada, a blind defence of multiculturalism moots all discussion as to what is culturally undesirable. Quebec has never been a society that embraces multiculturalism, so it more easily evaluates what’s not concordant with its ideals and is therefore undesirable.

Rather than being closed to other cultures, Quebec

» ers celebrate the desirable aspects of different cultures by patronizing festivals, the arts, restaurants, concerts, dance shows, etc. Where the line of cultural appreciation is drawn in Quebec is at unjust or even dangerous beliefs.

For decades, the West has been shedding the influence of Christianity. Abortion rights, homosexual rights, female emancipation — these are just a few of the benefits this struggle has given us. Are Canadians seriously going to stand by while an even more conservative and repressive religious strain comes into the West and undermines these victories for human rights?

Quebec currently has a small immigrant population. By implementing this law now instead of when there is a larger immigrant population, as few people as possible will be affected. The PQ is not fabricating a crisis; they are averting one.