What do others think? Should Jagmeet Singh say, "I oppose requirements to uncover one's face!"?
I think that Quebec MP's have the right as elected officials to state their views just as municipal leaders can and should speak out. Mulcair as an elected Quebec MP and public figure from both provincial and federal politics has every right to speak on any issue affecting the rights of his fellow citizens.
Singh as part of the minority affected by this type of legislation also has the moral authority to speak on an issue of fundamental rights affecting others of his faith in Quebec.
Yes krop, I know he has the right and the moral authority and whatever to speak on this. I got that. That's not what this thread is about.
The question is: [size=20]SHOULD[/size] he speak against this - as the leader of a federal party?
And I asked the further question: Should Jagmeet Singh demand, today, that Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta abolish their separate Catholic schools (which are "public" schools)? Should he demand that they stop discriminating in recruitment and in hiring of teachers on the basis of religion?
That's what I think this question is about.
Oh, and should he loudly condemn the "uncovered face" rules that CAQ and the Liberals and everyone else in Québec have bought into, and which is part of this same CAQ legislation? He never said a word about that, whereas Mulcair had the nerve to do so. Should he, yes? No?
Is Jagmeet Singh in support of the Islamophobic opposition to the niqab and burka? No? Then how about saying so?
See, it's not so simple.