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Wanted: a commissioner to oversee a new Régie des accommodements raisonnables du Québec (RARQ).

Must believe in the primacy of state neutrality. Background in human-rights law, constitutional law and administrative law required. Experience in conflict mediation strongly recommended. Understanding of religious rites, customs and dress an asset.

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Don’t laugh. The RARQ may not exist in real life and a posting for such a job may seem far-fetched, but we could be heading in that direction now that the Liberal government this week tabled the regulations for applying its controversial Bill 62.

The secularism law, which aims to provide guidelines for handling requests for religious accommodations in the public sector and requires all government services to be offered and delivered without a covered face, was adopted last October. But it took until now for the government to reveal how, exactly, it would be applied.