Quebec Liberal leader to Marois: apologize for comments about England

Premier Pauline Marois is being urged to apologize for comments she made blaming multiculturalism for social unrest and bombs in Britain...
Marois told Montreal Le Devoir that England’s multiculturalism policy had led to people beating each other up and setting off bombs.
While acknowledging France’s efforts at secularism “are not perfect,” she said it was preferable to the multiculturalism policies of practiced in England...The global Migrant Integration Policy Index suggests the UK has actually been mildly more successful than France at integrating immigrants – and that Canada has been far more successful than either.
Its latest study places Canada at No. 3 in the world, after Sweden and Portugal. That is vastly ahead of Britain and France, which are fairly close in ranking. The index, which is produced by think-tanks, research institutes and non-government organizations in Britain, tracks integration from 31 offices across Europe, Canada and the United States.
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