Andre Arthur, Independent MP from Quebec, who was formerly a radio personality in Quebec, was spared by the SCC of having to pay thousands of dollars to a group of Montreal Arab and Haitian cabbies but was branded a RACIST by seven judges of Canada's highest court for his on-air rant against Haitian and Arab taxi drivers in 1998. Andre Arthur left Parliament Hill soon after the SSC ruling on thursday. Of course the Supreme Court took the view that Andre Arthur, the MP in question's on-air comments about cabdrivers of Arab and Haitian origin did not result in a personal injury, and he got off scot free for his RACIST rant.

Does anyone remember how Le maire de Ville de Herouxville, Quebec, one Andre Drouin passed all those codes with rules to regulate the conduct of people who belonged to other religions (non-Catholics). In an Email to me, Andre Drouin indicated that he was not tolerant of people who were not Quebecois. But that wasn't a surprise to me in the very least since I had gone through my baptism of fire in Quebec, and I was a Roman Catholic. I therefore asked myself what would be the lot of those who were neither Quebecois nor Catholic?

Now on to the Duplessis Regime's PADLOCK LAW of the 1930's which was supposedly intended to fight communismm but was quietly used against people who were not Roman Catholics. But that should not have come as any surprise as Maurice Duplessis was member of the l'Ordre Jacques Cartier, an ultra Catholic secret society in Quebec and Ontario which began life in Vanier, Ontario in 1927.

Now to go on to the double standards of Quebec's federal politicians who worked out of Ottawa, Ontario. The town of Sault Ste-Marie Ontario declared itself to be English-only and there was a hue and cry from Quebecois politicians, who attempted to call its people bigots. Apparently these Quebecois politicians, which included a former Prime Minister of CANADA, all suffered from selective AMNESIA, and just could not remember that Quebec had passed laws declaring itself Joual (French patois) ONLY.

Arieh Perecowicz, a Jewish Cab-driver in Montreal, was fined $1,400 by a municipal court for violating city bylaws by placing family photos, a Canadian flag, and articles of his Jewish faith in various parts of his cab. However having myself travelled by cab in Montreal, I have noticed that some drivers have crucifixes and other Catholic icons inside their cabs, which also must surely violate city bylaws. Of course being Catholic in Quebec is like being in another class people, and the law certainly is not going to be applied to you.

Sikh Kirpans asidem which are part of their religion, is banned in the Quebec parliament, because it has two strikes against it. First of all, Sikhism is not part of the Quebecois religious tradition and secondly it is considered a weapon by the Quebecois. Of course, the premier of Quebec, one John (Jean) Charest who says that there is no religious bent in Quebec, allows a CRUCIFIX to hang over the "SPEAKER'S CHAIR" in the PARLIAMENT of Quebec (national assembly), and finds nothing wrong with it being there. Surely if all religions are considered equal by the Canadan Human Rights Charter, then even that CRUCIFIX should not be hung in the Quebec parliament, as it is a religious SYMBOL and might offend people of other faiths.

Kenneth T. Tellis