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Quebec's secular charter has not only scored deep political divisions, it is also provoking Quebecers, according to the polls, to want to reaffirm their Catholic heritage. Just one of the many paradoxes in this fractured debate, Michelle Gagnon writes. 5:02 AM ET

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