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    Rural Quebec town bans stoning women

    Canadian Press

    Montreal — A rural Quebec town has taken the unusual step of formally declaring that it is forbidden to stone women in public — part of a list of “norms” that it says is aimed at potential immigrants.

    Herouxville, about 165 kilometres northeast of Montreal, passed a document at a town council meeting this month that outlines what it considers to be its official behavioural norms.

    The document, sent to both the provincial and federal governments, states that “a woman can. . . drive a car, sign cheques, dance, decide on her own.”

    However, covering one's face other than on Halloween, burning women alive or burning them with acid is not considered acceptable.

    The document also points out to potential immigrants that Quebeckers are used to receiving medical services from members of the opposite sex and that boy and girls often swim in the same pool.

    “Don't be surprised,” the document reads. “For us, it's normal.”

    Andre Drouin, who spearheaded the move to list norms, said the document was a response to what some perceive to be excessive accommodation newcomers to the province receive.

    “We have to ensure that people who come here want to live like us,” Mr. Drouin told Montreal's La Presse newspaper. “The Muslims that want to impose Shariah (law), if they realized that here we don't stone women, they would never have come.”

    Debate has raged in Quebec in recent week about what is considered reasonable accommodation of racial, ethnic and religious minorities.

    Herouxville does not currently have any immigrants among its population of 1,300.

    But Mr. Drouin said that could change given the Quebec government's policy of encouraging newcomers to the province to settle outside urban centres.
    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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    • #3
      Well to be fair, do you honestly think Quebec is attractive enough of a place to move to that it can pick and chose what types of immigrants it accepts?
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      • #4
        Re: Quebec bans stoning women: Next up, letting them vote

        Montreal — A rural Quebec town......


        Ok...on to the subject....

        .....has taken the unusual step of formally declaring that it is forbidden to stone women in public — part of a list of “norms” that it says is aimed at potential immigrants.
        Always because of immigrants.....How come they HAVE to write it? Isn't that supposed to be normal...

        If the immigrants left their country to come here, why the hell would they want to bring the shlt they left to our country...Itsn't that the reason why they moved here the first place? Because our country is a better place to live...

        Spec.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Victor Galis
          Well to be fair, do you honestly think Quebec is attractive enough of a place to move to that it can pick and chose what types of immigrants it accepts?
          Yes.....unfortunately...

          Spec.
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            • #7
              Re: Re: Quebec bans stoning women: Next up, letting them vote

              Originally posted by Spec


              Ok...on to the subject....
              I'm pretty sure Montreal is the location of the reporter or the office of the paper or something like that, not the name of the city.

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              • #8
                Re: Re: Re: Quebec bans stoning women: Next up, letting them vote

                Originally posted by Kuciwalker


                I'm pretty sure Montreal is the location of the reporter or the office of the paper or something like that, not the name of the city.
                QFT.
                Spec needs some more reading comprehension.

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                • #9
                  Re: Quebec bans stoning women: Next up, letting them vote


                  Montreal — A rural Quebec town....


                  One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Re: Quebec bans stoning women: Next up, letting them vote

                    Originally posted by Dauphin

                    Montreal — A rural Quebec town....


                    OMG. Spec number 2.
                    You guyz never read the newspapers?
                    Montreal is there to indicate where the article was written.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Re: Re: Quebec bans stoning women: Next up, letting them vote

                      Originally posted by Lul Thyme


                      OMG. Spec number 2.
                      You guyz never read the newspapers?
                      Montreal is there to indicate where the article was written.
                      I was aiming for Kuci, but I got you.
                      One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                      • #12
                        However, covering one's face other than on Halloween . . . is not considered acceptable.
                        These people obviously have not seen some of the women I've dated.

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                        • #13
                          Gotta love the media and the internet. Some backwater town that has ZERO immigrants decides to write some norms and suddenly its news??!

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                          • #14
                            Montreal — A rural Quebec town


                            Wikipedia says Montreal is pretty large....
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Tacc
                              Montreal — A rural Quebec town

                              Wikipedia says Montreal is pretty large....
                              You consider that a good source?
                              What?

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