What's the root of the Montreal riots?

Ferretlover · Last edited by Ferretlover on Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:12 am; edited 1 time in total

Canwest News Service Mon, 11 Aug 2008
MONTREAL - As it appealed for calm after a Sunday night riot sparked by the police shooting death of a teen, the Montreal police force's track record on race relations came into sharp focus on Monday. …
If you are male, a member of a visible minority and drive a sports car, you can be targeted," Ms. Mourani said Monday. "One youth told me he was stopped 10 times in one day. That is a lot and I think the young people are fed up." …
Jacques Hebert, who teaches at Universite de Montreal's social work school, noted that unemployment, poverty and discrimination plague the area and attacking the police is a way to get back at a system some of them feel oppressed by, he said. …
National Post
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Ten times in one day. Time for the revolution. It's not just race, it's anyone who is not sufficiently submissive, anyone who doesn't show the signs of capitulation.
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Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1971

There is no racism in Canada. Nickel says so, so it must be true.
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Fishman

Yep Cid, it's those terrible cops and not those nice gang members that are the problem. Boo hoo. Racial profiling boo hoo, those gangs are such pantheons of diversity. Any gang members on line? Cid welcomes you to his neighborhood, no capitulation there!

davep · Expert Joined: Jun 21, 2006 Posts: 1402 Location: Europe

I used to get stopped up to five times each time I walked back from my girlfriend's house (about three miles) when I was a teenager living near Liverpool.

I'm white, but so were the drug addicts that were breaking into people's houses all the time. It pissed me off, but as it wasn't racist I guess I couldn't complain.
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Dave
You almost had it figured out there. The people committing the crimes you mentioned were a certain color predominantly, you were stopped because of your age and race. That's just as "racist" and "age discrimination" as any other (or common sense), you just had enough sense to understand association. Should the cops have stopped little old black women who were in that neighborhood as frequently as you? At least that way the cops would be avoiding "profiling". Viva la Capitulation!!

FoxV

The elitism of the French is renowned world wide. Race has very little to do with it. The less Quebcois you are, the less you're welcomed.

Which is the true irony of Quebec politics. They alienated all English speaking Quebecers (my family being one, I was born in Montreal) and to fill the void from the exodus they enabled an open door immigration policy bring in boat loads of people that were not only not French, but not white and not even Catholic (a big deal to the Quebecois)

The future of Quebec is far from certain

Dreamtwister · Fission Joined: Feb 06, 2006 Posts: 2297

gampy

Rioting is nothing new in Montreal. If it's not playoff hockey games, it's rock concerts, or students who don't liek the latest tuition increase. It's a regular part of the summers in Montreal. It's how they have fun, it seems.

The city police in Montreal, and the Surete de Quebec are notoriously violent, and tough. But so are the citizens.

Montreal can be a crazy place, I am not sure it has much to do with a shooting in Laval, or the north end. Might have been a simple excuse to go on a rampage, which is the summer pastime for much of Montreal's youth. Rich, poor, or middle-class.
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So does that mean we scratch Canada off the list of peak oil bugout countries or just the french parts?
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vampyregirl · Heavy Crude Joined: Dec 19, 2007 Posts: 342

montreal has seen worse days. Remember the Quebec Bikers War back in the 90s? The Hells Angels and the Rock Machine turned Montreal into a war zone. It was the most violent city in Canada. After the outlaw bikers were put in jail or run out of town killings dropped considerably.