when archaeologists study a region that has experienced shifts in culture, one of the things that they use to classify those shifts in culture is changes in burial practices.

i'm concerned about land use. it's 2017; nobody should be burying their dead, any more. in that sense, i'm representing a different cultural shift - one towards a secular and liberal vision of science and reason, and away from conservative religious traditions that have lost touch with whatever sense they may have made in the past. i think that land use decisions should be made by the community that uses the land, not by people from other communities that want to buy a plot of land or whatever else. that is a basic principle of socialism.

so, this is not an individual rights issue; there is no right to a religious burial, and no positive right to carry out religious customs. there is a negative right to non-interference. nobody is claiming such an infringement.

regardless, to suggest that making burial grounds for a foreign culture is not an invasion of some sort is just a break down in critical thinking - for it is exactly what archaeologists will conclude when they study the land in the future. by studying changes in burial practices, they will - correctly - conclude that there was a cultural disruption in the region.

you can argue in favour of that cultural disruption if you insist, but it is simply disingenuous to deny it altogether. as mentioned, my own biases lie in a cultural disruption of a different sort.

i consequently don't share the premier's views that the situation puts the province in a poor light. rather, the premier's comments make him seem clueless and delusional.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/couillard-muslim-cemetery-saint-apollinaire-1.4211441