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PART 1 – Presentation and general conclusions
PART 2 – The Association des viandes halal (AVH) and its relationship with MAC
PART 3 – More information about MAC
PART 4 – More information about AMCVH
PART 5 – More information about the Aboubakerseddik Cultural Centre
PART 6 – AMQ, another of MAC’s organizations at 371 Jean-Talon E.
PART 7 – Excerpts of Dumont le midi TV show broadcast on March 13, 2012

PART 1 – PRESENTATION AND GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

In her March 13 report broadcast on Dumont le midi TV show, journalist Caroline Lacroix revealed that Olymel pays thousands of dollars to the “Association des viandes halal that is controlled by Abou-Baker-Assedique mosque” located at 371 Jean-Talon E. in Montreal for the halal certification of its chickens.

During his March 23 TV show that took place after the halal issue was addressed at the Quebec National Assembly, Mario Dumont highlighted that all political parties in Quebec City had been very careful not to bring up the financial aspect of the issue:

Point de Bascule spent the last few days at finding an answer to Mario Dumont’s legitimate question. Who is pulling the strings behind this Aboubakerseddik Mosque on Jean-Talon Street that receives commissions from companies like Olymel, that get their chickens halal certified, as we have learned on March 13?

Here are the main conclusions that we can draw at this time:

1. The mosque is part of a cultural centre. The centre also acts as an organization providing halal certification under a different name. We are dealing with one enterprise involved in two activities: management of recreation and culture and meat inspection.
2. The certification agency is controlled by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), the main Muslim Brotherhood organization in Canada. MAC owns the building where the certification agency and the cultural centre are based and the administrators of the certification agency are former MAC directors or they have publicly endorsed MAC’s positions in the past.
3. For the last ten years, MAC has been an important contributor to IRFAN-Canada, the Hamas fund collector in the country. Hamas is involved in a program aiming not only at the elimination of the state of Israel but also at the destruction of Western civilization. In a speech given on October 2011, its leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar stated that “This (Western) civilization will not be able to withstand the great and glorious Islam.” The Canada Revenue Agency revoked IRFAN-Canada’s charity status in April 2011 after having concluded that it financed the terrorist organization Hamas.
4. MAC’s halal program is part of a global Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy. In 2010 in Islamabad, a leader of the Islamist organization, the mufti of Bosnia, Mustafa Ceric, urged Muslims “to conquer the world through Halal movement.”

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Before having been able to analyse all legal implications related to the halal issue, Point de Bascule would like to make two proposals as a starter:

1. All products for which commissions are being paid to imams for halal certification should be properly identified.
2. No public money should be spent to buy products that will be served in schools, in daycare centres, in military bases, in prisons and in other public institutions if these products have been certified by imams who belong to organizations that received money or gave money to terrorist organizations’ fund collectors or if they are involved in a project aiming at destroying Western civilization from within.

It would be beneficial that private certification agencies be set up to guaranty that the products that they approve come from animals who have been desensitized before being slaughtered and that no profit coming from the sale of their certified products will go to the financing of Islamic jihad.

PART 2 – THE ASSOCIATION DES VIANDES HALAL (AVH) AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH MAC

Part 2.1 – All in One: A mosque and a meat inspection agency

The Aboubakerseddik Mosque belong to a cultural centre that bears the same name. The cultural centre is numbered 1165515017 in the Quebec enterprise registry. Its activities are described as management of recreation and culture. The center is also involved in halal certification under the name Association des viandes halal (AVH).

Therefore, we are dealing with only one enterprise (1165515017) bearing two names and involved in two fields of activities.

Aboubakerseddik Cultural Center / Association des viandes halal

Board of directors:

Before the Association des viandes halal (AVH – 1165515017) got involved in the certification business, it was the Association musulmane des commerces des viandes halal (AMCVH – 1161203071), also based at 371 Jean-Talon E., that was issuing the certification.

In a notice published in August 2011 in Alfa, a newspaper serving the Maghreb community in Montreal, AVH stated that it would replace the other organization (AMCVH) that had been certifying meat until then but that it would keep on using its logo.

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Part 2.2 – MAC controls the Association des viandes halal (AVH)

The enterprise 1165515017 located at 371 Jean-Talon E. is a conveyor belt for the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), the main Muslim Brotherhood organization in the country. Many facts prove it:

1. The City of Montreal Property Assessment Service’s website indicates that the building including 371 Jean-Talon E. is owned by MAC since 2008. The building is located at the northwest intersection of Jean-Talon and St-Denis. It includes the following civic numbers – on Jean-Talon: 365, 369 and 371 and on Saint-Denis: 7160 and 7164. The first part of the 2008 notarized act of sale describing the building and identifying the purchasers is available by clicking HERE.
2. Among the administrators of the Association des viandes halal (AVH – 1165515017), there are two former MAC administrators:          Lazhar Aissaoui – director from 2002 to 2006 and treasurer from 2007 to 2011
   Mohamed Hamrani – director in 2006.In Quebec, MAC is listed in the enterprise registry under the French name Association musulmane du Canada (AMC – 1160478880). AMC/MAC submitted its most recent annual statement to the enterprise registry on June 8, 2010. All administrators (including Lazhar Aissaoui – treasurer) were on MAC’s board of directors, as indicated in the 2010 report submitted to Canada Revenue Agency.
3. In 2009, as MAC treasurer, Lazhar Aissaoui asked for (and obtained) a property tax exemption for a part of the property including 371 Jean-Talon E. in Montreal. At the time, Mr. Aissaoui justified his request by saying that religious, social and cultural activities were being held in the Centre that he was administrating. Mr. Aissaoui identified the Centre’s address as being 7160-7164 Saint-Denis St. although the Quebec enterprise registry indicates 371 Jean-Talon E. These are all addresses of MAC’s property located on the northwest intersection of Jean-Talon and Saint-Denis.CanLii (December 15, 2009): Association musulmane du Canada (Re), 2009 CanLII 73698 (QC CMNQ)
4. Other link between the Association des viandes halal (AVH) and MAC: in 2007, before becoming AVH president, Mohamed Habib Marzougui signed a petition initiated by MAC and other affiliated organizations during the reasonable accommodations saga. In the past, AVH president was identified as Marzougui M. Habib on a Radio-Canada TV show. (L’épicerie – Manger halal / Eating Halal)
5. Dar al-Iman School, run by Association des viandes halal administrator Lazhar Aissaoui, made the headlines in the fall of 2010 after journalist Vincent Larouche wrote an article about the school for the Rue Frontenac daily. Reacting to what had been published, MNA Monique Richard expressed her disagreement with the financing of this MAC-run school at the Quebec National Assembly:

   December 2, 2010 (Journal des débats / Quebec Hansard – video 15:19)
   December 3, 2010 (Journal des débats / Quebec Hansard – video 7:54)

   At the time, Education Minister Line Beauchamp answered Monique Richard by denying that Dar al-Iman School was affiliated with MAC although the school’s website clearly mentioned it before being modified later.

   When Dar al-Iman Institute (the legal entity managing the namesake school) sued Rue Frontenac for defamation, Point de Bascule summarized all the elements linking the school to MAC in an article entitled Dar al-Iman School v. Rue Frontenac: The context of the defamation suit (École Dar al-Iman c. Rue Frontenac : le contexte de la poursuite en diffamation).

   Among those links, let’s mention that MAC and Dar al-Iman have acknowledged the affiliation that exists between the two entities in their respective publications. MAC goes as far as giving Dar al-Iman’s address on Henri-Bourassa as one of its own addresses in its file (1160478880) at the Quebec enterprise registry. Point de Bascule also revealed in 2011 that the Saudi embassy in Canada invited Muslims interested to travel to Mecca to contact MAC travel agency by faxing Dar al-Iman school: Dar al-Iman School’s subsidized resources being used by MAC travel agency and other subsidiaries (Les ressources subventionnées de l’école Dar al-Iman utilisées par l’agence de voyages de la MAC et d’autres de ses filiales).

6. Before being named on the Association des viandes halal’s board, Mohamed Hamrani was on MAC’s board of directors in 2006 and on Dar al-Iman Institute’s board in 2001 and 2006.

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 Part 2.3 – MAC promotes a subversive program hostile to individual freedoms

On its own website, MAC describes its association with the Muslim Brotherhood in these terms:

In his 50-point manifesto, Hassan al-Banna promotes the abolition of political parties and the instauration of a one-party State, the reform of the law, so that it will conform to Sharia, an increase in the number of youth groups promoting jihad, the prohibition of dancing, the censorship of movies and plays and a dress code for all citizens enforced by a religious police.

According to Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report that compiles and analyses information related to the Brotherhood network around the world, MAC and Hamas (charter – article 2) are among the rare Brotherhood’s local sections publicly acknowledging their ties with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Jamal (Gamal) Badawi has been a member of MAC board of directors from 2002 to 2006. Based in Nova Scotia, he still takes part in MAC’s activities and is involved in the leadership of many other Muslim Brotherhood organizations in North America.

During two Holy Land Foundation trials that took place in the U.S. in 2007 and 2008, an internal Muslim Brotherhood memorandum that had been seized by police was produced for evidentiary purposes. The document demonstrated that Hamas had developed an infrastructure not only to collect funds in order to support its offensive in the Middle East but also to further the Islamization of North America. (GMBDR)

In this document, author Mohamed Akram (Mohammad Akram Adaloni) identified twenty-nine organizations linked with the Muslim Brotherhood network and some of its leaders. At point 20 in the document, he praised the work done by Jamal Badawi and his foundation based in Nova-Scotia to further the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda. The memorandum summarizes as follows the goals pursued by Badawi and the Islamist network:

Investigative Project on Terrorism: Memorandum in Arabic with English translation

Goals being pursued by MAC with its halal certification campaign must be analysed within this wider context.

To confirm that the halal movement is part of an offensive that aims at destroying the Western civilization from within, let’s recall that in December 2010, a Muslim Brotherhood leader in Europe, the mufti of Bosnia Mustafa Ceric, has openly urged Muslims “to conquer the world through Halal movement” in a speech given in Islamabad (Pakistan) during the Global Halal Congress.

Point de Bascule has recently published an article explaining how the halal movement can be used to facilitate the project of conquest evoked by Ceric: December 2010: A Muslim Brotherhood leader in Europe urges Muslims “to conquer the world through Halal movement” (Décembre 2010 : Un dirigeant des Frères Musulmans en Europe encourage les musulmans à «conquérir le monde via le mouvement halal») also GMBDR: Bosnian Grand Mufti Urges Muslims To Rule World Through Halal Food .

Mustafa Ceric, former MAC director and Muslim Brotherhood leader in North America, Jamal Badawi, and Youssef Qaradawi, the Brotherhood spiritual guide, all belong to the European Council for Fatwa and Research.

After the recent terrorist attack perpetrated by an Islamist in Toulouse (France), French president Sarkozy banned Youssef Qaradawi from coming to France in April to attend a Muslim Brotherhood convention. This decision was taken in spite of the fact that Qaradawi holds a Qatari diplomatic passport that would normally have allowed him to go to France without a visa and in spite of a growing role played by Qatar in the French economy. (Reuters – archived by GMBDR)

PART 3 – MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MAC

List of administrators declared by MAC to Canada Revenue Agency:

2000 – 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011

Findings about MAC:

1. MAC has given its support to the terrorist organization Hamas after it was described as such by the Canadian government.
2. MAC has funded and received money from organizations that fund terrorism.
3. MAC endorses individuals who justify terrorism.
4. MAC’s activity in Canada is part of the general Muslim Brotherhood project to destroy Western civilization from within so that their totalitarian ideology is made victorious.

Part 3.1 – MAC publicly supported Hamas and transferred money to its fund collector in Canada for ten years

1. In April 2011, Canada Revenue Agency revoked IRFAN-Canada’s charity status for having funded Hamas. From 2001 to 2010, MAC has transferred $296,514 to IRFAN-Canada, Hamas fund collector in Canada, according to information supplied by MAC to Canada Revenue Agency.
2. Hamas is engaged in a program that aims not only at the elimination of Israel but also at the destruction of Western civilization. In a speech given on October 28, 2011, its leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar stated that “This (Western) civilization will not be able to withstand the great and glorious Islam.” (Subtitled video by MEMRI in English and archived by Jihadwatch)
3. Wael Haddara, MAC actual president, was on IRFAN-Canada board of directors in 2000 and 2002.
4. On March 22, 2004, MAC has openly supported Hamas in a press release. It did so after the Canadian government had put Hamas on a list of terrorist organizations. MAC justified its support to Hamas by claiming that this organization was involved in humanitarian work.
5. In sections 80-84 of the case R. v. Ahmad 2009 CanLII 84774 (ON SC)(that concerns another organization than MAC), Mr. Justice Dawson explained that, when a Canadian organization fund humanitarian activities in Gaza, it allows Hamas to free up money that would have been spent for civil purposes and to direct them toward other purposes. Therefore, it is impossible to dissociate contributions made for Hamas humanitarian activities in Gaza from those that are made to support its terrorist and military activities.
6. In 2009, during a fundraising tour in Canada that took him to Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City and Montreal, Islamist leader Ekrima Sabri gave a speech in MAC’s premises in Montreal. The Montreal portion of his tour was organized by IRFAN-Canada. Sabri promotes suicide operations by children. In 2000, he stated: “The younger the martyr – the greater and the more I respect him…” (MEMRI)

After the terrorist attacks that occurred in Toulouse at the end of March 2012, French president Sarkozy banned Ekrima (Akrima) Sabri from entering France. He had been invited to attend a convention organized by the French section of the Muslim Brotherhood in April.

Point de Bascule (March 29, 2012): France bans from its territory Muslim Brotherhood leaders invited by MAC to Canada in the past (La France interdit l’entrée sur son territoire de leaders des Frères Musulmans invités par la MAC au Canada dans le passé)

GMBDR (April 1, 2012): France Bars Qaradawi From Attending French Muslim Brotherhood Conference

Part 3.2 – MAC and Lazhar Aissaoui’s Dar al-Iman Institute have received money from an organization that funded al-Qaida

MAC and Dar al-Iman Institute have received money from the Saudi organization World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) in 2001 and 2002. On February 11, 2012, Canada Revenue Agency revoked WAMY’s charity status after having concluded that this organization had given $50,246 to Benevolence International Foundation that was funding al-Qaida.

Part 3.3 – MAC frequently invites Munir El-Kassem as speaker although he was a leader of a WICS’ substructure, an organization set up by Gaddafi to fund international terrorism and further the Islamization of non-Muslim countries

MAC frequently invites Munir El-Kassem to address its militants. El-Kassem is the MSA’s chaplain at the University of Western Ontario (London). MSA (Muslim Students Association) was the first organization set up by the Muslim Brotherhood in North America in the sixties. An NYPD report (page 68) states that this organization is an “incubator” for radicalization.

In 2009, the World Islamic Call Society’s website (WICS) identified Munir el-Kassem (Qasimi) as a leader of the World Council of Islamic Call (WCIC). In his Dictionary of Islam (Oxford, 2004), John Esposito identifies WCIC as a WICS’s substructure. Initially known as the Islamic Call, WICS was set up by Gaddafi to fund international terrorism and further the Islamization of non-Muslim countries.

WICS’ implication in terrorism was demonstrated during Abdurahman M. Alamoudi’s U.S. trial in 2004. In his plea bargain, Alamoudi admitted that WICS’ interreligious activities had been a cover for transferring Libyan funds toward Hamas. He was also involved in an assassination attempt ordered by Gaddafi.

In 2011, Canada Revenue Agency revoked WICS-Canada’s charity status after having found out that it funded terrorism in Trinidad and Tobago. (The Ottawa Citizen, May 7, 2011 – archived by GMBDR)

In addition to Munir El-Kassem, other individuals and organizations linked to MAC and operating in Canada have been associated in the past with the Islamist offensive led by the Libyan regime.

Point de Bascule (February 28, 2011): The Muslim Brotherhood and Gaddafi were partners not too long ago

Partie 3.4 – In 2011, MAC hosted two Islamist preachers condemned by the Quebec National Assembly for their homophobic and anti-women discourse

In the fall of 2011, Islamist preachers Abdur Raheem Green and Hamza Tzortzis decided to cancel their speech at Concordia University after protest by human rights activists and MAC hosted them in its own facilities.

On October 18, 2011, the Quebec National Assembly denounced these two Islamists’ “homophobic statements and their discourse trivializing the violence against women” by adopting a unanimous motion. (Journal des débats / Quebec National Assembly Hansard)

Back then, Point de Bascule reacted by sketching a quick profile of MAC who welcomed them and by pointing out the limits of this kind of motion of protest:

Point de Bascule (October 21, 2011): About the iERA affair: a description of the Muslim Association of Canada in ten points (En marge de l’affaire de l’iERA : une description de la Muslim Association of Canada en dix points)

Since we now know that MAC, which has facilitated these two Islamists’ stay in Montreal, is the main beneficiary of the commissions being paid for halal certification, we could add that it is illusory to think that we will succeed at slowing down the Islamist expansion in Canada if, while MNAs express their indignation about radical remarks made by Islamists in MAC’s premises, government’s agencies subsidize MAC infrastructure and buy products for which this organization receives commissions.

Part 3.5 – Two teachers at MAC-run Abraar School in Ottawa praise a pupil’s essay about killing Jews

In 2005, two teachers at Abraar School in Ottawa praised a pupil’s essay that condoned the killing of Jews. The Ottawa Citizen was notified about the situation by somebody who noticed that the text was put on display in a glass case at the entrance of the school. Abraar School in Ottawa, Dar al-Iman School in Montreal and other organizations are listed as “MAC institutions” in a MAC document (p. 3). An article published by The Telegraph (London, UK) about the affair is still available on the web.

Part 3.6 – MAC endorses Youssef Qaradawi

After the recent terrorist attack perpetrated by an Islamist in Toulouse (France), French president Sarkozy banned Youssef Qaradawi from coming to France in April to attend a Muslim Brotherhood convention. This decision was taken in spite of the fact that Qaradawi holds a Qatari diplomatic passport that would normally have allowed him to go to France without a visa and in spite of a growing role played by Qatar in the French economy. (Reuters – archived by GMBDR)

In its publications and on its numerous websites, MAC and its leaders endorse Muslim Brotherhood spiritual guide, Youssef Qaradawi:

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In 2008, the Home Office denied a visa to Qaradawi to prevent him from entering Great Britain. The British authorities justified their decision by stating that Qaradawi was seeking to “justify acts of terrorist violence or disburse views that could foster inter-community violence”. Qaradawi’s positions favorable to suicide bombings against Israel and its citizens are well-known.

Since its early days in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood encouraged the use of suicide bombings to impose its totalitarian ideology. An article published by the New York Times on February 4, 1949 mentions the existence of a 200-individual squadron ready to launch such attacks.

In addition to supporting suicide bombings, Qaradawi has taken numerous other positions hostile to individual freedoms in the past:

PART 4 – MORE INFORMATION ABOUT AMCVH

Association musulmane des commerces de viandes hallal (AMCVH)

Board of directors :

In his book Montréalistan (Montreal, Stanké, 2007, p. 134), Fabrice de Pierrebourg explains that AMCVH was set up to compete with another halal certification agency, the Organisation islamique du contrôle de la viande halal (OICVH) launched in July 2002 by Said Jaziri. OICVH is numbered 1149382518 in the Quebec enterprise registry. OICVH is still considered an active organization by the Quebec enterprise registry in spite of the fact that its founder was expelled from Canada. OICVH also operates under the name Association coranique de Montréal:

When Canada expelled Said Jaziri in 2007 for having violated Canada’s Immigration law, the Association des droits de la personne au Maghreb (ADPM) protested. ADPM (numbered 3360483492 in the Quebec enterprise registry) was run then (and still is today) by Mohamed Zrig, a Muslim Brotherhood leader from Tunisia, still living in Canada in spite of the fact that his numerous claims for refugee status have been rejected for twenty years because he has been a leader of a terrorist organization in the past. In 2001, Zrig was an administrator of Dar al-Iman Institute that controls the namesake school whose principal (then and now) is Lazhar Aissaoui. To complicate the situation, let’s add that Aissaoui was mentioned previously as an administrator for the Association des viandes halal (AVH) that replaced AMCVH that replaced Jaziri’s OICVH. Coming full circle…

PART 5 – MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ABOUBAKERSEDDIK CULTURAL CENTRE

Besides the spelling that appears in official documents, such as the Quebec enterprise registry (1165515017) and in the 2009 judicial decision, MAC leaders use many alternate spellings to identify their centre on Jean-Talon St.:

PART 6 – AMQ , ANOTHER OF MAC’S ORGANIZATIONS AT 371 JEAN-TALON E.

Among the numerous organizations set up by MAC, there is at least another one whose official address is 371 Jean-Talon E. It is the Association musulmane québécoise (AMQ). This organization did manifest itself during the Bouchard-Taylor Commission by submitting a brief.

Association musulmane québécoise (AMQ):

Board of directors:

GMBDR comments in those terms the Muslim Brotherhood’s tactic that consists in creating numerous organizations:

PART 7 – EXCERPTS OF DUMONT LE MIDI TV SHOW BROADCAST ON MARCH 13, 2012

Dumont le midi (March 13, 2012): Is halal meat becoming the norm? (Est-ce que la viande Halal est en train de devenir la norme?)

This excerpt deals with the payment of commissions by Olymel to Aboubakerseddik mosque.

(Translation PdeB)

04:51 Mario Dumont
We understand that the inspectors working for the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, (…) for Health-Canada are paid with our taxes. Who does pay for these inspectors?

05:02 Caroline Lacroix
The slaughterhouses. There are three inspectors who are imams. They make surprise visits each month in the slaughterhouses that belong to the Association des viandes halal. There are annual fees in the vicinity of one hundred dollars to pay. (…)

05:19 Mario Dumont 
You mean that the slaughterhouse must pay the Muslim community some kind of subscription to get certified.

05:25 Caroline Lacroix
Yes. It must pay the Association des viandes halal that is controlled by Abou-Baker-Assedique mosque located on Jean-Talon Street in Montreal. There is a monthly payment also, a contribution that goes according to the production of halal meat by the slaughterhouses. Therefore, we are talking here about many thousands of dollars. But listen carefully to Olymel spokesman who refuses to answer our question.

05:52 Richard Vigneault (Olymel spokesman)
There are procedures that cost … different amounts of money. Now, I cannot get into the specifics. I cannot tell you the cost of this certification. This is certainly … for a one year-period, with our volume of production … in the range of many thousands of dollars.

06:14 Mario Dumont
We can sense that the gentleman is not very enthusiastic at answering this very question. He did accept to answer the other ones.

(…)

06:44 Mario Dumont
So, if we go back to the money issue, money is being paid to a halal meat association that is controlled by a mosque…

06:51 Caroline Lacroix
… that is located on Jean-Talon in Montreal, the Abou-Baker-Assedique (Aboubakerseddik) Mosque. This is a way to fund the mosque. (…) We are talking here about many thousands of dollars when we look at the list of the slaughterhouses that belong to the association.

Further reading

Point de Bascule (March 21, 2012): December 2010: A Muslim Brotherhood leader in Europe urges Muslims “to conquer the world through Halal movement” (Décembre 2010 : Un dirigeant des Frères Musulmans en Europe encourage les musulmans à «conquérir le monde via le mouvement halal»

Point de Bascule (January 10, 2012): Subsidized Islamist organizations have transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Hamas’ fund collector in Canada (Des organisations islamistes subventionnées ont transféré des centaines de milliers de dollars vers le collecteur de fonds du Hamas au Canada)

Point de Bascule (September 25, 2010): Halal soups : Campbell’s Soup joins ISNA to sponsor Islamic conference in Montreal (Soupes halal:Campbell’s Soup se joint à ISNA pour commanditer la conférence islamique de Montréal)

Point de Bascule (June 3, 2008): Quebec – A daycare centre wins against a Muslim father about halal menus (Québec – Une garderie l’emporte contre un père musulman sur les menus halal)