On the same day Quebec vigorously defended its law promoting state neutrality and secularism in government, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared religious values can and should frame how politicians act.
An ML posting to a CA sub with a right-wing news article that talks about Carney’s actions only in the first three paragraphs, never includes a direct quote of what the guy said, but a couple paragraphs later, leads a statement with
The Carney government has taken no formal position on the notion of secularism in the law
then buries it by finishing the sentence with
but objects to how Quebec and other provinces are using the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to override Charter rights pre-emptively.
and spends several paragraphs talking about the notwithstanding clause, some stuff about how restricting what women can choose to wear is somehow liberating to women because religion - what happens if a middle-eastern woman decides one day that a headscarf would look nice with her outfit and gets kicked out of parliament?
Still no quote directly from Carney, but the last paragraph is
Oral arguments at the Supreme Court of Canada continue Wednesday and Thursday. A final decision from the court is unlikely for several months.
So, the (right-wing media) Star makes a story mentioning a thing the PM said, lacking either a quote or context of the statement, then yaps a bunch about the law itself and provinces’ use of the notwithstanding clause…
Then at the end says “Oh, BTW, the Supreme court hasn’t made any decisions, this is just testimony”
An ML posting to a CA sub with a right-wing news article that talks about Carney’s actions only in the first three paragraphs, never includes a direct quote of what the guy said, but a couple paragraphs later, leads a statement with
then buries it by finishing the sentence with
and spends several paragraphs talking about the notwithstanding clause, some stuff about how restricting what women can choose to wear is somehow liberating to women because religion - what happens if a middle-eastern woman decides one day that a headscarf would look nice with her outfit and gets kicked out of parliament?
Still no quote directly from Carney, but the last paragraph is
So, the (right-wing media) Star makes a story mentioning a thing the PM said, lacking either a quote or context of the statement, then yaps a bunch about the law itself and provinces’ use of the notwithstanding clause…
Then at the end says “Oh, BTW, the Supreme court hasn’t made any decisions, this is just testimony”
A less biased version
You say that like .ca isn’t one of the more conservative instances out there.