The dual purpose of this essay is to refute Bernard Gagnon’s thesis that there has been a radical shift in the political thought of Charles Taylor and to pinpoint the faulty presupposition that governs it. A careful reading of Taylor’s work shows there is no liberal turning point to be found after 1995, so much as a turn to the political liberalism that was emerging at that time in order to better cope with the problem of the stability of constitutional democracies in a context of reasonable pluralism.