Summary: Forget about student protesters, identity is becoming the defining issue in the Quebec provincial election campaign. The mayor of Saguenay has publicly complained about a candidate of Algerian descent, whose name, he says, he can't even pronounce. The Parti Quebecois has announced that -- if elected -- it will prohibit the children of immigrants and francophones from attending English-language CEGEPs, and now we have PQ leader Pauline Marois' plans to essentially ban most religious symbols and articles of clothing from the public sector. Today we hear arguments both for and against her so-called secular charter.
