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Who belongs in Quebec? : identity politics in a changing society

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    Linda Leith Publishing, 2020
  • Publisher:
    Linda Leith Publishing, 2020
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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    2020
    Summary:

    What does diversity mean for the Quebec identity? Who gets to consider themselves a Quebecer? The author, a young journalist who moved to Quebec City from Saskatchewan, has some critical questions for the adopted province she loves. Are Quebecers less tolerant than other Canadians? Ongoing debate about secularism and religious symbols has led many observers to ask that very question. Premier François Legault denies that racism or Islamophobia exists, even after gunman Alexandre Bissonnette opened fire in a Quebec City mosque in 2017, killing six people and wounding 19 others. The Quebec government has now established a religious symbols ban for some public employees. The increasingly diverse new reality is sometimes embraced and sometimes met with anti-immigrant sentiment if not outright hostility from alt-right groups.

    Contents:
    • Introduction
    • 1 Blowing on the Embers of Intolerance
    • 2 Pastagate, the English-language Debate, and the Separation of Church and State
    • 3 Zero Sum Game: The Challenge of Defining Quebec Identity
    • 4 The Charge of Racism
    • 5 The Mosque Shooting
    • 6 Populism and the Donald Trump of Quebec
    • 7 Bill 21
    • 8 Islam, Women, and the Quebec Secularism Debate
    • 9 Wanted: A Common National Identity
    • Conclusion.
    Original Publisher: Montreal, [Québec], Linda Leith Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781773900575, 1773900579, 9781773900599, 1773900595, 9781773900582, 1773900587