Now this is right out of the pages of this week’s news in the year 2007, I shit you not. Immigrants wishing to live in the small Canadian town of Herouxville, Quebec, must not stone women to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules released by the local council.

Now I have never been to Quebec but I would like to think that all these rules would be pretty common sense? Stoning and burning seem to be pretty midevil to me. I have to give the town props for passing the new rules. The declaration, published on the town’s Web site, has deepened tensions in the predominantly French-speaking province over how tolerant Quebecers should be toward 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 makes clear women are allowed to drive, vote, dance, write checks, dress how they want, work and own property.

There are probably many people out there who feel women should not drive (not me!) but come on, having to pass a rule saying they can?? Gee thanks for that one. Now the woman of the house can go to the store in her car and purchuse goods and services with a check, decide on what clothes to wear on this trip out of the house and she can even get a job!

I love this country and all their new wave ideas that is for sure. What is next? Cable TV? I mean they must already have the Internet, they have a website!

Just for the record this town does exist. Herouxville, which has 1,300 inhabitants, is about 160 km (100 miles) northeast of Montreal.

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