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“To avoid extremes, you have to give a little to the majority,” Premier François Legault said after the passage of his Coalition Avenir Québec government’s anti-hijab Bill 21. “I think it’s the best way to keep things from getting out of control.”

So, how’s that working out?

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Well, things aren’t exactly under control this summer in Legault’s Quebec. Video evidence of several incidents of hatred toward Muslims and other minorities has been posted in social media. And the response of politicians, police and the French-language mainstream media has been weak at best.

In one disturbing incident on a sidewalk in Montreal’s Ahuntsic district, a video of which was posted online, a man obscenely berates a woman, apparently after overhearing her speaking Arabic with her small child.

He bends down toward the child and says, “ask your mother whether I can f— her, child of a whore.” The child bursts into tears, as the man walks away.