Today the Canadian Interfaith Conversation released a statement to Quebec Premier Pauline Marois, provincial justice critics, and leaders of opposition parties on the proposed “Charter affirming the values of State secularism and religious neutrality and of equality between women and men, and providing a framework for accommodation requests”.
The Canadian Interfaith Conversation has been bringing together senior representatives of the world’s faith communities since January 2009, beginning with the hosting of the International Interfaith Leaders Summit. National representatives of the Interfaith Conversation are concerned by the Quebec government’s proposed “Charter affirming the values of State secularism and religious neutrality and of equality between women and men, and providing a framework for accommodation requests” which, among other measures, would prohibit government employees from wearing conspicuous religious symbols.
Read the CIC’s statement on the proposed Quebec charter. En Français.
Read the Charter Vision for the Canadian Interfaith Conversation. En Français.