An alternative way of stating this is that the Quebec government was unilaterally required to give its citizens rights.

The people of Quebec may be unhappy with the mechanism but surely the principle of protecting people from government overreach should not be in dispute.

The Quebec gouvernement is limiting some individual right to protect the culture and language. It probably hard to understand form outside when you are not seeing your culture completely swallowed by Canada and America.

Can't blame Quebec for disagreeing that people are entitled to basic freedoms?

(I'd encourage people to read the charter and Quebec's concerns, Quebec objects to it because it doesn't allow them to discriminate against foreigners, there's not some legitimate concern)

Some background https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/28/quebec-ca...

Unfortunately people agreeing to sacrifice their own rights in favor of more government overreach as long as it’s marketed as hating on the other (usually immigrants, but also, for example, black people in the US) is not unique to Quebec, and is distressingly popular across the world.

Unbound rights means french will disappear along with a culture. For long and still today, french speaking citizens in Quebec earn less than the English minority. The plan was always to assimilate us, and it's mostly working, but you can't blame us for pushing back.

I don't know the full story behind this; but if, as you say, the national government had to go behind Quebec's back to enact basic civil liberties, that says more about Quebec than the government. Using it as a defense does more harm than good to your case.

It was adopted without quebec, but its not like it was done in secret. Quebec was present for the negotiations.

In secret, during the night, when the Quebec representatives were sleeping.

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuit_des_Longs_Couteaux_(Qu%...

Well i guess this proves that Godwin's law was alive and well pre internet.

However, fair is fair - that was more secretive than i was aware, although i would still say that quebec was actively participating in the negotiations up to that point.