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| Canadians in Quebec turn from anti-immigrant to pro-immigrant. New York Times. (Page 1/1) |
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rinselberg
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DEC 22, 12:32 AM
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"How a Town Famous for Xenophobia Fell in Love With Immigrants"
| quote | | “We now want as many immigrants as possible,” said Bernard Thompson, the mayor of Hérouxville, Quebec, a onetime supporter of the town’s anti-immigrant code. |
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| quote | For years, the small town of Hérouxville in rural Quebec was the embodiment in the province of deep, nativist hostility toward immigrants.
The town didn’t have any immigrants, but it once adopted a code of conduct that left no doubt that they, and their perceived customs, were unwelcome.
Hérouxville, the code warned, did not tolerate “stoning women to death in the town square” or “burning them alive” or “treating them as slaves.” The people of Hérouxville, it cautioned, celebrated Christmas and didn’t cover their faces, except maybe for Halloween.
The code tapped into a pervasive fear in Canada’s only French-speaking province that immigration would dilute its culture and also triggered a landmark provincial government commission that sought to build a consensus on the “reasonable accommodation” of ethnic minorities.
So it may come as a surprise that Hérouxville is now embracing immigrants and is eager to accommodate them.
“We’ve had a break from our past,” said Bernard Thompson, Hérouxville’s mayor and a onetime supporter of the code. “We now want as many immigrants as possible.”
The sharp shift in this small town’s attitude comes as Canada is seeking to open its doors even wider to immigrants as a crucial strategy for its economic vitality.
Canada’s federal government has announced plans to welcome record numbers of new immigrants over the next three years, with the goal of adding 1.45 million immigrants to the country’s population of 39 million. In contrast to other Western nations, where immigration has cleaved societies and fueled the rise of political extremism, there is a broad consensus in Canada over the value of immigration. |
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The article, with a number of photographs, continues online. A "6-minute" read.
Norimitsu Onishi for the New York Times; December 17, 2022.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...ants-xenophobia.html
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MidEngineManiac
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DEC 22, 01:06 AM
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Sorry azzhole. I speak English, eat pork and dont give a fruck about allah. That rebel flag on my arm, the tattoo has been there for pushing damn near 40 years.
See that border to Africa and the middle-east ? It works 2 ways. Use the second.
You aint coming here and taking over, ***** .
[This message has been edited by MidEngineManiac (edited 12-22-2022).]
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rinselberg
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DEC 22, 06:54 AM
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Wow. I so did not see that coming.
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MidEngineManiac
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DEC 22, 12:24 PM
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Rinsey, I have a LOT of personal experience dealing with the entitlement attitude of "certain cultures".
Nope, nope and OH, HELL NO !!
They wanna live like that, its their right.
They wanna get in the way of my lifestyle, sandwich or meat-lovers, or dog, then we are gonna have a HUGE problem.
They came here, I didnt go there. They adapt to our ways, we dont adapt to theirs.
Dont like it, then get the hell back where ya came from. Full stop.
"Proud Infidel"
(oh,  YES, pineapple and ham makes a perfectly acceptable pizza. Dont like it, dont eat it. More for me.  )[This message has been edited by MidEngineManiac (edited 12-22-2022).]
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williegoat
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DEC 22, 01:15 PM
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