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Theres no erosion of Quebec culture by the ethnics as laws from the Quebec Charter of rights ensures they conform to all Quebec rules and regulations regarding language and education.
Culture extends beyond what regulations from government mandate. The issue of wearing a hijab in public has no intersection with laws focused on language or education but it most certainly is a direct challenge to Quebecois culture as expressed through most of Canadian history. The hijab is not an organic development of Quebecois culture.
The way that multiculturalism works in Canada, and pretty much all across the West, is that the native culture is forced to accommodate the cultural practices of various other cultures. You can't defend your culture if you have to continually bite your tongue and accept the practices of others. When cultures do battle against each other, which is what goes on all the time, the culture which is forced to cede ground, to "put down its dukes" is the culture which will lose.
Case in point is the famous Hérouxville code of behavior incident. The residents of this Quebec town asserted THEIR culture, they didn't want to change. People should have every right to not want to change, to preserve their culture. Here's the
code for readers who are following along:
Nine months ago, when this tiny village in central Quebec adopted a code of conduct that banned the stoning of women and informed newcomers “at the end of every year we decorate a tree with balls and tinsel and some lights,” there were snickers from some quarters.
“They don’t laugh anymore,” Herouxville resident Bernard Thompson said yesterday.
With its code, the town of 1,300 prompted the creation of a travelling commission headed by two Quebec intellectuals and triggered a debate that continues to dominate Quebec politics.
Andre Drouin, the Herouxville town councillor who drafted the code of conduct, was basking yesterday in the spotlight the commission once again shone on his town. He told a visitor to meet him in front of the village church. “There’s only one church, by the way,” he added. “No mosque. No temple.”
I thought that was great. Any newcomer into their little cultural pocket has to meet their cultural code. Screw this "accommodate the minorities" nonsense. If any imposition has to be borne, it should fall ENTIRELY on the newcomers.
Also Quebecs 8% ethnic population resides almost entirely in Montreal and poses no cultural threat to any part of Quebec.
Are you joking or what? Cities are the engine of cultural creation. Cultural preservation would actually be better served by taking those 8% of minorities and dispersing them, willy nilly, across all of Quebec and far away from the cultural movers and shakers found in the big city.
Look at local and national television broadcasts in Canada and in the UK - they're showing vastly disproportionate levels of minority reporters. How can that happen? The children of immigrants usually go onto to study professions in university, they rarely find their way to journalism programs. So how on God's Green Earth do the small coterie of minorities in these journalism programs find such disproportionate success at being hired to be news readers and reporters? Because racist liberal editors hire them specifically because they're minorities in order to advance a multicultural agenda and to shove that agenda down the throats of the viewers all across the land. The BBC is notorious for doing this, and the CBC is pretty bad too. If reporters were hired on the basis of merit then we'd expect to see on-air minority representation at a level which was lower than the provincial minority proportion of the population (because fewer children attend journalism school) and instead we see on-air representation which is greater. Racist editors and directors and such are actively favoring such applicants at the expense of fair hiring practices.
The Charter of values was nothing more than a smoke screen to legalize racism and discrimination in an effort to placate Quebecs Xenophobia.
You write this likes it's supposed to be some kind of bad thing! Xenophobia here is nothing more than wanting newcomers to adopt your ways rather than having to suppress your ways and accommodate the ways of the newcomer. Remember, immigrants makes choices to immigrate, so if they don't like the culture of Quebec then they should immigrate to France, Haiti or other nations. To immigrate and then expect the host culture to keep bending to accommodate the culture of your land is a notion which likely comes from some drug-induced fevered dream. If immigrants like their culture so much they should simply stay as citizens of their native culture.
What a maroon...
