The town council of Hérouxville, a sleepy community 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 here.
Among them, it is forbidden to stone women or burn them with acid. Children cannot carry weapons to school. That includes ceremonial religious daggers such as kirpans even though the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Sikhs can carry kirpans in schools.However, children can swim in a pool with boys and girls alike, because they can't be segregated.
And for the record, female police officers in Hérouxville, 165 kilometres northwest of Montreal, can arrest male suspects. Also part of the declaration is to allow women to drive, dance and make decisions on their own.
"We're telling people who we are," said André Drouin, one of six town councillors and the driving force behind the declaration passed earlier this month.
2007-01-30 04:55:41 · 3 answers · asked by Sally 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I love it, tell everyone what your town is about and try to protect your own culture and life style. The multi-cultural push is destroying, intentionally in many cases, our own cultures. Prospective home buyers now know what kind of society they will live in if they move there, and have no right to complain if they are ostracized or seemingly "insulted", oh how terrible, by the original citizens of the Herouxville. If westerners don't protect their heretage and beliefs soon, we won't have our culture any more.
Many immigrant groups move into areas and demand that the locals change to fit their ideas, culture and language. Southern Florida and Dearborn, Michigan are fine examples of this occurance. I think we need to take a long hard look at what "multi-cultural" education, and diversity will cost us in the long run. I think every town should pass a similar ordinance.
2007-01-30 05:52:07 · answer #1 · answered by 29 characters to work with...... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's wonderful!
But, if a town in the USA passed ordinances such as these, there would be an immediate legal challenge from the ACLU, from CAIR, and from half-a-dozen other special interest groups.
Ultimately, the town would either lose in the courts (someone would find something "unconstitutional" about the ordinances, to prevent the people of the town being able to rule themselves); or else the town would cave in to external pressure, being unable to afford the cost of the lawsuits.
2007-01-30 13:06:58 · answer #2 · answered by Gromm's Ghost 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its quite ironic, as the town is in a province where the english language is illegal
2007-01-30 13:41:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋