Commission of consultation on the practices of compromises connected to the cultural differences

The Commission of consultation on the practices of compromises connected to the cultural differences , also known under the name of Commission Bouchard-Taylor , is a board of inquiry created the February 8th 2007 by the Prime Minister for Quebec Jean Charest in order to examine the related questions with the reasonable compromises authorized on cultural or religious bases.

The commission, coprésidée by the Philosopher Charles Taylor and the Sociologist Gerard Bouchard, must submit his report in March 2008. It has as a mandate:

to draw up the portrait of the practices of compromise which have course in Quebec;
to analyze the stakes which are associated there by taking account of the experiments of other companies;
to hold a vast consultation on this subject; and
to make recommendations with the government so that these practices of compromise are in conformity with the values of the Québécois company as a pluralist company, democratic and levelling.

Controversies

Gerard Bouchard

The commission raised the controversy before even beginning its work. In an interview which it granted to the cultural weekly magazine montréalais Voir , Gerard Bouchard declared that the minority statute Québécois of ascent to the Canada creates a feeling of insecurity on their premises. The French-speaking people of ascent constitute a majority which reacts like a minority, which shows the same feelings of concern, of threat, of brittleness, the same reflex of fold, of hardening… , adding that the independence of Quebec would make it possible to reabsorb the crisis of the Québécois identity .

The remarks of Mr. Bouchard, an intellectual known souverainist and the brother of the former Prime Minister for Quebec Lucien Bouchard, were denounced by the political chronicler Don MacPherson of the daily newspaper The Gazette as being partial and compromising for the government and the commission.

The representatives of the three political parties represented with the National Assembly of Quebec reiterated their confidence at the place of the police chief, affirming that Mr. Bouchard had not exceeded his duty of reserve.

August 22nd, 2007, it raises a new polemic by marking an opposition between the level of tolerance of the “intellectuals” and that of the other citizens.

Charles Taylor

The deputy pequist Pierre Curzi in addition added that the other copresident of the commission, Mr. Taylor, was federalistic, Taylor is however famous for his broad and tolerant opinions, having militated before for the Nouveau democratic party of Canada.

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