Maxime Huot Couture
Husband and father, Maxime Huot Couture works as a policy advisor in the Government of Quebec. He completed graduate studies in political science and philosophy and was also trained as a Jean-Charles-Bonenfant fellow of the National Assembly of Quebec. He coordinated many events and conferences on the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church and on the relationship between faith and culture. He is a regular collaborator with Le Verbe Magazine and his writings have appeared in various publications. He lives in Quebec City with his family.
Bio last updated February 9th, 2022.
Articles by Maxime Huot Couture
The Trial of Big Porn
By Maxime Huot Couture
January 19, 2022
Cardus NextGen Fellow Maxime Huot Couture summarizes important progress in 2021 towards cancelling porn culture. He hopes both the law and the culture will continue to make anti-porn progress in 2022.
Behind those victories, we find some energetic individuals fighting to protect children and women from sexual exploitation and from the fangs of the porn industry We now know, based on evidence presented against the industry, that porn is also a public threat – a real pandemic that affects the physical, mental, and social health of men (mostly), women, teens, and children
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Le Québec théâtre d’un conflit de symboles
Andrew P.W. Bennett, with Beryl Wajsman, Maxime Huot Couture
June 26, 2020
En ce jour de la Fête nationale, mieux connue sous le nom de Fête de la Saint Jean-Baptiste, les Québécois Maxime Huot Couture et Beryl Wajsman font part au révérend Andrew Bennett, directeur de l’Institut sur la liberté religieuse Cardus, de leurs impressions concernant la loi provinciale adoptée il y a un an en vue de déterminer qui peut porter en public des vêtements religieux et selon quelles modalités ils peuvent être portés.
Mais la vraie question est de savoir comment l’interdiction du port de symboles religieux imposée à la plupart des fonctionnaires peut promouvoir le bien commun? Si la réponse est qu’elle promeut la laïcité de l’État, d’accord! Mais comment la laïcité de l’État promeut-elle le bien commun? Comment a...
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Sounding Out Quebec’s Clash of Symbols
Andrew P.W. Bennett, with Beryl Wajsman, Maxime Huot Couture
June 24, 2020
On today’s Fête Nationale, also known as Fête de la St-Jean-Baptiste, Quebecers Maxime Huot Couture and Beryl Wajsman give Rev. Andrew Bennett, director of the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute, their take on province’s one-year-old law controlling how and by whom religious garb can be worn in public.
Beryl framed it around the role of religion within the public square and how cultural and religious differences should be accommodated within Quebec culture and Quebec society Are we seeing in Quebec, and generally within Canada, a contraction of the public square for people of faith to not simply ...