Jews and practicing Muslims follow some food rules dictated by their religious convictions.
This set of rules is generally qualified as “kosher” for the former and “halal” for the latter, which means “permit” because in accordance with doctrine.
The refusal to eat pork and the consumption of meat from an animal whose slaughter respected a certain ritual are the best known.
Non!
Honestly, that doesn’t bother me, as long as the freedom of others is respected.
After all, there was a time when many Catholics deprived themselves of meat on Friday and fast during Lent.
Today, vegetarians and vegans also have eating habits based on beliefs that are not mine, but which are legitimate and respectable.
But should the state encourage and even subsidize meat production in accordance with Judaic and Islamic religious precepts?
Should my taxes be used to finance an increase in the production of kosher and halal meat?
In Canada, the answer is apparently yes, since this is exactly what the federal government does.
A reader draws my attention to a very discreet program of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and the Agrifood intended to invest in public funds in the production of Red Red Mind and Halal. You will find this here.
The program is aimed at private companies already engaged in this type of production or those who want to get started.
In particular, we aim to help the slaughterhouses concerned to “increase their effectiveness”.
Funds may be devoted to the purchase of the required equipment (conveyors, cutting tools, blades, etc.) or hiring a consultant to help them.
The eligible projects will be able to receive up to two million dollars in government aid per applicant.
The eligible costs would be shared 50-50 between the government and the entrepreneur.
Ottawa receives requests until 1is September 2026.
The total cost of the program is $ 25 million, spread over two financial years (2025-2026 and 2026-2027).
The problem here, I repeat, is not production or kosher or halal consumption, or based on some other conviction.
The problem is obviously not in a faith and a religious practice experienced in respect of others.
The problem is the use of your money and mine to encourage ethnoreligious communitarianism.
Secularism
But obviously, we are in Canada, the only one of these countries that have joined the multiculturalist doctrine, which today refuses to see the disastrous consequences and to backtrack.
Mark Carney seems determined in this regard to being the continuator of Justin Trudeau, himself a zealous executor of this fatal ideology introduced by his father.
Meanwhile, Quebec, with the half-cans of half a state, strives to try to establish secularism as a philosophy founding the relationships between the State and the citizens.
Will Quebecers finally understand?