The racism vs. reasonable accommodation debate here in Quebec is heating up like a "steamy all-dress" (that's what we call a hotdog). For those of you who haven't heard about it, the shit storm of finger-pointing and innocent huffs of "what me, racist?" all started when the Journal de Montreal published a poll revealing that 59% of Quebecers say they're racist.You'd think with the evidence coming straight from the horses' mouths, folks would be like, "Hmm, OK, half of us are racist," but since then, Pepsis all across la belle provence have been scrambling to call bullshit, saying that it wasn't representative. Even when a popular Quebec radio psychologist later said that blacks may run faster, and are stronger, but have lower IQs, and that Sikhs were a gang of bozos, everyone was all "It's an isolated case!"Then in the same week, a Montreal cop posted this homemade French calypso mp3 on a humour blog about how Quebecois culture is being spit on by immigrants, and how ethnics should stop playing their music and go back to where they came from, and we were all, "Ummmmm, but…"THEN, the northern Quebec town of Herouxville published a set of cultural norms as a guide to help potential immigrants assimilate--including helpful little factoids like: "We don't publicly stone women to death here" and "Women are not allowed to cover their face in public, except on Halloween,"--and we just threw up our hands and went, "OK, fine," and begrudgingly put huge white hoods over our heads like those dunce caps in the old Looney Tunes cartoons.