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  Article content Around one third of Quebecers would like to see Parti Quebecois's proposal to ban religious symbols for employees in the public sector extended to the private sector in a new poll that measures attitudes toward multiculturalism as well as the PQ's charter of values. Article content Forum Research poll for the National Post found that plans for the charter have split the public roughly in the middle with 45% backing the idea with 49% opposed and 6% still undecided. Content of the article The data indicate a drop in support for the charter that was previously at 58% in Quebec in an Forum Poll on August. 24. According to the poll, 32% want the ban on conspicuous religious symbols, such as burkas and turbans, to be extended to private sector companies such as servers and taxi drivers. 75% of respondents agreed that immigration is what makes the province strong, but half of Quebecers do not agree with the concept of multiculturalism. They would like new immigrants to Quebec to change their national clothes and dress to be more like Quebecers. Nearly 4 out of 10 Quebecers believe that Quebec should only accept immigrants who speak French. Article content All Canadians understand that francophone Quebeckers feel themselves under threat as a minority linguistic group on an English-speaking world, Forum President Lorne Bozinoff stated in a statement but the levels of xenophobia seen in these findings, particularly in rural Quebec is truly alarming. here we go again The charter's support, however it may not translate into political gain or the PQ A second Forum poll suggests. It also found that the support for Liberals has risen to 42% in the province, an increase of 10 points over the 2012 election. According to the survey, these gains could suffice for the Liberals to become a hair thin majority. According to the poll the results show that 35 percent of Quebecois support is present. Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) was third in the poll with 12% support. Content of the article among non-francophones, the Liberals have 87% support, the poll found. If the results are projected to seats in the province's 125-seat National Assembly, the Liberals would be in the right position to capture a one-seat majority, the poll said. According to the results the Parti Quebecois, which currently forms a minority government, could lose just one seat - meaning the majority of Liberals gains are from former CAQ supporters. CAQ won 19 seats in 2012's election. However the results of the poll indicated that the third-party would receive only four seats if an election were held today. Both polls were conducted over the phone and surveyed 1,179 Quebeckers who were of voting age and are believed to be accurate +3% 19 times out of 20. The results were released on Saturday, as protesters marched through the city of Montreal demanding that the premier Pauline Marois' to increase the proposed charter, which would ban public sector employees wearing conspicuously visible religious symbols. According to the poll the poll shows that Ms. Marois's rating of approval is just a little over 30%.. National Post with a file from the Canadian Press

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