It's been a wild weekend here in Quebec. On Thursday, the Quebec Human Rights Commission denounced virtually the entirety of Bill 78, in the strongest terms I have yet seen used.

Although the denunciation was sharper, the main difference between the QHRC report and other groups which have assailed the embattled law, like Amnesty and the Quebec Bar Association, is the fact that this was friendly fire.

The QHRC is a government agency, empowered to assess whether government legislation is in line with the requirements of the Quebec Charter. After two months of analysis by legal scholars and bureaucrats, their fifty-six page report is scathing in condemning the overwhelming majority of Bill 78 as an indefensibly unconstitutional mess, which violates many of our most basic rights.They point out that the Charter takes precedence over any law, and as such Bill 78 is, in their judgement, illegal.