i mean, maybe the context isn't clear.

there's a perception in quebec - and, as a leftist, i largely agree with this - that religion is fundamentally a tool of oppression that, if left to run amok, will capture government and enforce itself on the people through tyranny and violence. you would have to have some understanding of a historical event in quebec called the silent revolution in order to fully grasp where this is coming from. if you're standing there scratching your head in california or something, you won't really get it.

the silent - or quiet - revolution was a transformative event in quebec that people familiar with the region will be unsurprised to learn has it's own wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution

up until the 60s, quebec was an exceedingly closed, catholic society; it was like a latin american theocracy, practically run from a bunker in the vatican. i exaggerate only mildly. the church ran everything - the schools, the hospitals, the jails, all of the local governments and virtually everything else, on top of it. the catholic hegemony in quebec was violent, oppressive and widely despised by the people...

a long system of jeffersonian reform took place under liberal and pq governments that ended with quebec as the most left-leaning jurisdiction in north america, and quebeckers to this day remain traumatized by religious rule and pretty vigilant about ensuring a very strong separation of church and state.

so, this increase in muslim immigration has kind of triggered the society into creating a firewall to keep religion out of the state - not out of some kind of active attack on minority rights, but because quebeckers are keenly aware of what happens when you let religion into the state.

so, if you could imagine some bourgeois rights groups trying to make the argument that jesuits or nationalists should be allowed into the spanish government, you get the idea of what quebeckers are reacting against, and why they're not taking this seriously - they seem any confluence of religion in government as severely threatening, and for very good reason as they've experienced it.

let us hope that the rest of us are not so stupid as to allow their concerns to become prescient!