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The Bouchard-Taylor Report on Cultural and Religious Accommodation: Multiculturalism by Any Other Name?
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EUI LAW; 2009/18
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TREMBLAY, Luc B., The Bouchard-Taylor Report on Cultural and Religious Accommodation: Multiculturalism by Any Other Name?, EUI LAW, 2009/18 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/12971
Abstract
In 2008, Gerard Bouchard and Charles Taylor released an important report as Co-Chairs of the
Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences. The
Commission was set up by the Quebec government in response to public discontent concerning
«reasonable accommodation» of religious and cultural practices. In the report, four delicate issues,
among others, are examined: cultural integration, collective identity, church-state relations and the
most appropriate procedures for handling cultural and religious harmonization requests. Altogether,
the Co-Chairs’ positions propound a normative conception of sociocultural integration in a pluralist
society. This conception, that may be called «interculturalism», is conceived by the commissioners as
an alternative to «multiculturalism». The text examines whether interculturalism, as conceived in the
report, is anything but a version of multiculturalism. The contention is that it is a rose by any other
name.