Reasonable accommodation, the debate has been going on in Quebec for the past decade. One of the men at the helm of a 2008 report analyzing the issue is not happy with the new CAQ government's plan to ban the wearing of religious symbols by all civil servants.
Charles Taylor co-authored the Bouchard-Taylor report, which at the time made 37 recommendations including certain authority figures should not wear religious symbols and the crucifix be removed from the National Assembly.
However in 2017, Taylor had a change of heart and now distances himself from the report, even though it is still being used as a reference today.
"We have low level politicians and high level politicians. Low level politicians will do anything to get a vote," Taylor told CJAD 800s Aaron Rand. "I'm passed being angry at those people. "[Jean-Francois] Lisee, [Pauline] Marois, [Francois] and Legault. I feel kind of sorry for them as human symbols."
What Taylor is angry about is the way the CAQ appears to be picking and choosing which parts of the report it wishes to implement, such as banning the wearing of religious symbols by all civil servants but keeping the crucifix in the National Assembly, saying it is not a religious symbol.
"It's adding insult to injury of the most ridiculous kind," Taylor said. "By itself it's a ridiculous bit of inconsistent nonsense."
Taylor's decade old report also did not prohibit teachers from wearing religious symbols, because as he said, it didn't make sense to even bring it up.
"Obviously that distinction wasn't one that was really going to make a great importance in the public, and I don't see there's any good reason other than that to have restrictions on those particular professions," he said.
Taylor believes Quebecers who disagree with the CAQs handling of the reasonable accommodation issue should stand up and have their voice heard.
"We should also protest vigorously to try and dissuade them," Taylor said. "If we don't then of course we're going to have action by the courts which in the end will invalidate the law."