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So did you ever hear of Herouxville before this?” asked Carole Casabin, who’s tending bar at Pub 842, a convivial watering hole just down the main street from the town hall.

“No? I didn’t think so. But a lot of people have heard of us now.”

And so they have. Little Herouxville, a village of 1,300 in Quebec’s Mauricie region, has been in the news worldwide since its town council adopted a set of standards aimed at immigrants, spelling out what is acceptable comportment in the municipality and what is not.

What grabbed the most attention is that the list includes a specific prohibition against stoning women in public and burning them alive and an interdiction against face covering, except at Halloween – measures clearly aimed at Muslims, even though the town is almost entirely old-stock Quebec francophone and there isn’t a single Muslim resident.

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The Muslim Council of Canada and the Muslim Forum of Canada have threatened to lodge a formal complaint with the provincial human rights commission that the Herouxville measures are in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights.

I didn’t know the Canadian Charter of Rights had a paragraph allowing stoning women…