Racist Intent of PQ "Charter of Values" Becomes More Evident

If the racist intent of the PQs values charter wasn't evident before it becomes more evident with each passing day.

In response to an ad by an Ontario hospital directed at the minority health professionals who would be targetted by the values charter, the PQ put out its own ad.  The intent of the ad is clear. If you're a person of faith and your faith requires you to wear something as part of that faith then you're not wanted in Quebec's health care system (or any other publicly funded institution for that matter) 

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Whoever crafted the PQ ad clearly wasn't firing on all cylinders.  Because if you read between the lines what the ad implies is that the PQ government doesn't care whether you have the proper qualifications to work in Quebec's health care system, what they care about is what you wear.  If I were a resident of Quebec and a user of their health care system I would be seriously worried about the quality of the health care professionals tending to my needs in the future under the values charter.

The true intent of  the PQ's political objectives were further revealed when it was reported that the lead PQ minister on the charter issue, Bernard Drainville, was pushing the private sector to adopt its proposed charter of values as well. 

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As time passes the blatantly racist nature of the PQ's charter of values and the obscene, xenophobic and desperate political strategy behind it will become clearer to all Canadians.  It is my hope that Canadians of good conscience (whether Francophone or Anglophone) will respond forcefully to a political strategy that will only stoke the fires of racism and give a platform to the bigots within Quebec society to peddle their poison.

And as the debate on this issue continues to evolve, Quebecer's must keep the following question foremost in their mind, if the PQ are willing to take away the rights of one group of minorities now in their lust for power, then which minority will they go after next to achieve their political objectives?

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