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The Quebec Liberals have been criticizing the Parti Québécois for confusing the issues of terrorism, religious accommodations and state religious neutrality.

Then, this week, they did the same thing, by addressing those issues in two bills and an “action plan,” all announced on the same day, and all obviously aimed at Muslims in particular.

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Wednesday’s anti-“radicalization” package was the Liberals’ long-promised response to pressure from the opposition parties to Do Something — that is, introduce new legislation­­ — to address mostly imaginary problems, including hooded civil servants.

One of the bills would allow the Catholic crucifix to remain in its place of honour in the legislature of a “religiously neutral” state, as a historic symbol of “Quebec’s cultural heritage, in particular its religious cultural heritage.”

The other bill, the one on hate speech, is even more absurd. It would turn the Quebec human rights commission into a “speech police.”