Posted AT 3:58 AM EDT on 07/12/07
Hate? Let's all take a Valium
That's a weird commission in Quebec, the one on hate, whoops, I mean "reasonable accommodation." Premier Jean Charest set it up after some "incidents": frosted glass on the windows at the YMCA so Orthodox Jews wouldn't see the spandex; something about the cost impact on shoppers of kosher food; a town council that passed bylaws disallowing death by stoning.
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