We recall that in 2023, Ms. Amira Elghawaby was appointed by Justin Trudeau as “Ottawa’s representative responsible for the fight against Islamophobia.” In September 2024, in a letter addressed to CEGEPs and universities, she recommended that they “increase the representation of Muslim, Palestinian and Arab professors” on their staff. In short, not to appoint professors according to their competence, but according to their religion.
Let’s imagine that, in response to Amira Elghawaby’s request, the Ministry of Education ordered all higher education institutions in Quebec to henceforth hire their professors according to their religion: statisticians would soon provide them with quotas for evangelicals, Catholics, Jews, atheists, agnostics, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Lutherans and, of course, Shiite Muslims and Sunni Muslims corresponding to their weight in the population and in their region.
I imagine the headache of the rector of the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue or the director of the Cégep de Gaspé looking for a Buddhist with a degree in forestry. Palestinian quotas would be particularly difficult to respect: in the 2021 census, only 6,500 people identified themselves as “Palestinian,” out of 8.5 million Quebecers, or 0.0008% of the total population.
I assume that, optionally, it will be possible for applicants to attach to their CV copies of their diplomas and documents attesting to their teaching experience.
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