Quebec is facing an uneasy situation with a ranging controversy over Quebec’s proposed charter of values as various businesses are facing disagreement.

An advertisement has appeared in McGill newspaper that features a young woman who is wearing a head scarf and the advertisement has prompted one Ontario hospital to take a direct aim at minorities.

The provocative tag line for the ad by Lakeridge Health of Oshawa, Ont, states, “We don’t care what’s on your head. We care what’s in it.”

A crisis-like situation has emerged in Quebec with the ad highlighting the women with a scarf as business leaders feel that the charter’s restrictions on religious clothing for public-sector workers will scare off investment and make it more difficult for them to recruit talent.

Michel Leblanc, who heads the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, which has asked the territory to back up on enacting religious images, stated, “A social order that is judged shut and prejudiced towards distinctive freedoms will neglect to pull in the ability and venture needed to develop and flourish.”

The entire Quebec seems to be affected by the values charter.