Summer jobs: a “test ” ideological” federal sows the seeds of concern in Quebec

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Maxime Huard

Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:38

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OTTAWA – the quebec organizations are concerned that the federal their request to join a number of values, including the right to abortion for the funding of summer jobs.

“We have been contacted by people who are very uncomfortable and who see it as a matter of principle,” said the conservative mp Alain Rayes Wednesday, who is said to have received two official complaints in his constituency.

The conservative Party believes that Justin Trudeau should take a step back and stop penalizing organizations that provide community-based services.

Canada summer jobs, a program of more than $ 200 million, has helped finance last year, about 70,000 jobs.

In their form in order to receive funding, organizations must now demonstrate that their “primary mandate” respects “human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the canadian Charter of rights and freedoms and other rights”, which includes reproductive rights.

The department of Employment said they want to target groups who, in the past, for example, have engaged young people to design and distribute leaflets antiavortement, and not punish the mere fact of opposing abortion.

The prime minister Justin Trudeau had put oil on the fire during his tour of public meetings, January 10, in Hamilton, Ontario. The organisations who want to restrict the rights of women are not in phase with the society, he had launched.

Christian groups have called on Wednesday the new government rules of the “tyrannical”, “communists” and “fascists”.

“The government imposes a test of ideological students. It is a violation of the rights and freedoms that has no place in Canada,” protested the president of the Canada Christian College, Charles McVety, at a press conference in Ottawa alongside other religious representatives.

The federal Court this week rejected the injunction request of a pro-life group in Toronto, for the suspension by the new federal directive. Mr. McVety maintains the ability to go to the supreme Court if necessary.

The New democratic Party, as the leader Jagmeet Singh as its spokesman in matters of social development, Brigitte Sansoucy, approve of the idea of not funding groups that undermine the rights of women or abortion.

“The problem is that the new directive is blurred, so all the religious groups feel excluded in advance,” said Ms. Sansoucy. The member for Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot has also been approached by a group of his constituency who was concerned about changes in the program.

The mp bloquiste Rhéal Fortin has held that the government’s approach is coherent, “in that it seeks only to enforce the existing laws”.