Quebec Culture: Leger Marketing

Negative Publicity Dept: Six out of 10 Quebecers agree with the statement: "People with different ethnic and religious backgrounds than the majority make an important contribution to Quebec culture," according to the survey by Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies, according to Montreal Gazette. Negative publicity about newcomers -including the debate over the niqab face veil and funding for religious day-care centres -has somewhat eroded Quebecers' favourable perception of the benefits of diversity, said Jack Jedwab, the association's executive director and quebecers are less likely to value the contributions immigrants make to society than they were three years ago, a new poll shows. In August 2007, almost three-quarters of Quebecers agreed with that statement. As reported in the news.
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