US EditionConsultations set to begin on controversial Quebec constitution bill
Over 200 groups will participate in consultations on Quebec’s constitution bill that aims to enshrine secularism, gender equality, abortion rights, and boost provincial autonomy.
- The Quebec government introduced a draft constitution that is criticized as ill-conceived, divisive, and authoritarian.
- Critics believe the bill could erode human rights and limit dissent, particularly regarding abortion rights.
- The Quebec chapter of the International Commission of Jurists Canada has requested the United Nations to investigate the bill for potential human rights violations.
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The Minister of Justice was able to measure resistance to his plan to provide Quebec with a constitution at the opening of the consultations.
The PLQ calls it "authoritarian." Oppositions want the withdrawal of articles on abortion and contestation.
Consultations on the draft Quebec constitution begin this Thursday morning.
The public hearings of Bill 1 to provide Quebec with a constitution begin this Thursday in a tense climate, in which several groups demand no more or less that it be "tossed in trash." But Simon Jolin-Barrette defends the rigor of his approach. He even says he is convinced that he can rally his fellow MPs to the project.
The Minister of Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette, was able to measure on Thursday the resistance to his plan to provide Quebec with a constitution as the consultations on this bill opened up in parliamentary committees. Even before the opening of these consultations, more than 300 civil society organizations had come together to demand the withdrawal of the bill and to announce their intention not to participate in these consultations. Then, in the…
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