: Outside the compound, shots were being fired at regular intervals and the man told me that his wife wanted his family to emigrate but that no one would process their application because it had to go through Serbia, according to The Chronicle Herald. I suggested that the family migrate to Canada and that in Québec the French he spoke would be a boon. I was making a documentary for the BBC at the time, and during a respite in our work sat with the engineer who’d been my fixer in the yard of the National Film School in the capital, Tirana. I’d do what I could to help out, I said. Why would I want to move to Québec The comedy of the moment — a man thinking that a bickering province dictating to him what language his children would be taught in, and curtailing who knew what other freedoms, so that he preferred even a ravaged home — was on my mind even before this month news item suggesting that only a tiny fraction of Syrian refugees is willing to come to Canada. Québec he said, laughing.
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