A village in Québec missed the Quiet Revolution. Merde...

I would usually post this sort of thing on my stealth journal, but I have more politically savy folks on here. We discussed this in my immigration class last night and I felt nothing but embarassement for Hérouxville. It reminds me of Sault Ste-Marie's motion (in the 80's I think) that declared the city unilingual anglophone, and would not allow for bilingual material from the goverment to be circulated within its limits. Just right up there in the hall of shame. (change in font colour, underlining, etc... are all my own). I highlight the fact that they have "one immigrant family" (my mother's family has been on this continent for 17 generations, but they still immigrated) but they don't say from where (are we to assume they are Muslim? That's not the only place that people immigrate from) nor has any news coverage I've found provided any impressions they've had about the by-law.

Quebec town outlines societal 'norms' for would-be immigrants
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/070129/n012979A.html

HEROUXVILLE, Que. (CP) - A sign at the entrance of this rural Quebec town says: Herouxville welcomes you. Unless, that is, you plan on stoning a woman to death, sending your kids to school with a kirpan or covering your face other than on Halloween.

The town council of Herouxville, a sleepy town dominated by a towering Roman Catholic church, has adopted a declaration of "norms" that it says would-be immigrants should be aware of before they settle in this town. Among them, it is forbidden to stone women or burn them with acid. Children cannot carry weapons to school. That includes ceremonial religious daggers like kirpans even though the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Sikhs can carry kirpans in schools.

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