The author should really have dug more before writing this paper. The problem is not the cemetery itself, but the promoter, the Centre culturel islamique de Québec (CCIQ). The issue is controversial among Quebec City's Muslim community itself.
From the beginning, the CCIQ wanted to be the project's exclusive owner, casting aside all other Muslim shareholders, including the Association de la sépulture musulmane du Québec (ASMQ, or "Muslim Burial Association of Quebec"), which has a lot more experience in the matter. The Association, who dialogued with opponents of the CCIQ project, does not want a mosque to own exclusively a cemetery, because of a previous experience with a Muslim cemetery in Laval, left as a dump by the mosque that owns it. The ASMQ and other Muslim organization preferred a Muslim section in the Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures cemetery, opened last week.
Death is a lucrative business, and exclusive ownership by the CCIQ would allow them to set foot in it.