OTTAWA (Reuters) - Immigrants to the small Quebec town of Herouxville
must not stone women in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them,
according to an extraordinary set of rules made public by the local
council.
The declaration, published on the town's Web site, has deepened a
debate in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province over how
tolerant Quebecers should be towards the customs and traditions of
immigrants.
"We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they
abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated
here," said the declaration, which also says women are allowed to
drive, vote, dance, write checks, dress how they want, work and own
property.
"Therefore we consider it completely outside these norms to ... kill
women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with
acid, circumcising them etc."




. For one thing, they pronounce almost everything phonetically (eg Tudor, buoy, new), and they've completely changed the original English spelling of a plethora of words (cutting out vowels and adding in z's at an alarming rate). The language Americans speak is a bastardisation of English, really.


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