Creating Strife in Quebec

All that people in Quebec ever do is pay taxes. Supposedly, they get some sort of welfare joys in return. These welfare goodies have been diminishing in recent years but there still was a service that Quebec was very proud of: accessible daycare system. For $7 a day, you could place a child in a state daycare center. Many children never got a spot because there were queues but still, the system existed and it was egalitarian.

Now, however, this bastion of public good has fallen to the approaching hordes of the “community of the aggrieved.” Successful, hard-working taxpayers of Quebec will be deprived of accessible daycare. The only people who will have it are, paradoxically, those who pay next to no taxes.

The government of Quebec seems bent on following the European example and creating tensions between the locals and Quebec ‘ s sizeable Muslim community.

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  1. In answer to your question about why western countries (esp Europe but apparently Canada, or at least Quebec too) are so intent on bringing in large numbers of muslims who don’t assimilate.

    My current theory is that these communities are catspaws of the government in its ongoing process of phasing out the nation state (to be clear, the active initative seems to be on the government side).

    A large visible group of immigrants and their descendents who actively reject the values and customs of the society they find themselves in are a great source of social friction and an irritant to social cohesion as long as there are enough of them. Muslims happen to fit this pattern since the values in their home country are so different from those of the destination countries – especially since most of the time emigration tends to strengthen religious feeling and practice.

    If members of such groups are spread out and trickle in then they tend to assimilate more and can be contributors to the societies’ wealth, when there’s a large group in one place they tend to reinforce each other and retreat into traditionalism and become a burden. I’ve read that it’s easier for muslims in muslim majority societies to not actively practice the religion than in places like Sweden or the UK (great work diversity bullies!).

    The conflicting demands created by a large enough muslim minority and the inevitable pushback by locals (see German anti-islamization marches) are a great fig leaf for government to stop providing services: Hey, we can’t satisfy everyone so we’ll just leave you to it!

    This is also why UK officials are actively promoting non-official shariah courts – the more disagreements are ajudicated there the less the state has to do.

    That’s my current hypothesis – we’ll see if anything in the real world can disprove it.

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