Community: Referendum Vote and Vimy Park

community: The referendum vote is the latest iteration of long-standing strains between the Hasidic Jewish community and the majority in Outremont, home to some of the leading political and cultural figures of Quebec the borough recently made waves when it renamed Vimy Park after the late premier Jacques Parizeau, a long-time resident . Below the surface, the debate is over the notion of belonging and the stresses of co-habitation in the central Montreal borough of 25,000, where black-garbed Hasidic men are a visible presence, according to Globe and Mail. The Hasidic community, bound by deep religious tenets, mostly avoids mixing with those outside its faith. Anything they can do to hurt the interest of our community, they ll do it. The mayor of Outremont, Marie Cinq-Mars, says the zoning bylaw was not intended to single out the Hasidim, whose various sects already operate four synagogues in the borough, including one on Bernard. We felt that to have no new houses of worship regardless of the religious confession was a good idea so that these streets had continuous stretch of commercial activity to draw people. Our commercial avenues needed help, they needed to be revitalized, she said in an interview on Monday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.