Considering it was “59% of Quebecer’s” and Quebec IS the French Canadian portion of Eastern Canada as opposed to the Maritimes, I miss your point.
Just as obviously you missed mine. Having dealt with the Quebecois both in Maine, where they feel that Americans are lousy hosts for not speaking French as a sign of respect for their tourists/guests and in Quebec where they they feel Americans are lousy guests for not respecting their hosts enough to speak French, and having been push polled more than once, I believe that the statement “A poll in a Montreal newspaper this month revealed that 59% of Quebecers admitted to some kind of racist feelings” is actually more along the lines of those 59% actually feeling culturally superior in some way. Not some proof that racism is rampant in Quebec Province. Which would have been the reason for it’s inclusion in the article. Which is the reason that I pulled that quote and commented on it.

Now this move by the Hérouxville council benefits from a very strong popular sentiment shared by many in Québec, francophone pure laine or not.

On one hand, we have the federal government’s civil servants hell bent on imposing multicultural “tolerance” (of which the net effect is always intolerance of indigenous culture and this culture’s acquis) and, on the other, these small manifestations of the miscontent caused by democratic deficit inherent in such diktats.

Bravo Hérouxville. This is not about declaring cultural superiority or refusing the world outside our borders. Some have simply chosen to declare that certain values are NON NEGOCIABLE and you’d be surprised to see how much this is reflected in the attitudes of the population.

“A poll in a Montreal newspaper this month revealed that 59% of Quebecers admitted to some kind of racist feelings.”

So 59% of the French Canadian population of Eastern Canada admitted to having some feelings of cultural superiority.

Quelle surprise.

I was truly shocked by the ingenuity devoted to torture but then of course nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

The weirdest thing about Spain (a country I think is adorable but ever so slightly nuts) was that I recall seeing souvenir dioramas of Inquisition torture scenes in shops in the 80s. Am I making that up?

Scramaseax: Problems with literacy, have we?

Nick M: Do not – repeat, do NOT – tell me what a “rectal pear” is. Unless, of course, you have a nice girl-circumciser already neatly packaged in duct-tape.

Oh yeah, because it’s Sikhs that form bands of Mujahadin. Oh wait no it’s not, that’s Muslims, but what do I care, their all a bunch of darkies to me.

The rules ban Sikh children from carrying ceremonial daggers to school, even though the Supreme Court has ruled they can.

The real question: did the Court decide whether the little kiddie mujahideen allowed to carry ceremonial rocket launchers and ceremonial AK’s to school?

And, another question, less tongue-in-cheek: do local governments regularly blatantly ignore supreme court rulings in Canada? How long do they expect to get away with this, having already lost in court? Or is this a test-case that they’re planning on bringing back to the court due to some change in law?

I thought for a moment they were just going to ban stoning altogether, but if it’s just the lethal approach they’re banning, that’s not so bad!