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Parti Québécois leadership candidate Bernard Drainville is promising another charter of values — but this one will be more “flexible and consensual.”

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Drainville told reporters Monday he plans to present the new plan sometime after Christmas as part of his leadership bid.

“I’ve always said my intention is to get the charter adopted,” Drainville said. “Had it not been for the election, there would have been a discussion with the CAQ (Coalition Avenir Québec) and there would have been a consensus.

“The charter I will propose, after Christmas, will be more or less the charter I had in mind after the discussions with the CAQ. Get me?”

The CAQ was the party with ideas that came closest to Drainville’s when he was the PQ minister of democratic institutions. The Liberals opposed the idea.

While Drainville’s charter of values, incarnated into Bill 60, proposed a total ban on religious symbols in the public sector as a way of asserting state neutrality, the CAQ did not go so far.