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J.J. McCullough, a political cartoonist and a so-called political pundit from Vancouver, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last week titled “Why does ‘progressive’ Quebec have so many massacres?”

Understandably, this ill-founded piece has stirred outrage.

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McCullough lists the 1984 attack on the National Assembly, killing three people; the killings of 14 women at École Polytechnique in 1989; a professor’s murder of four of his Concordia University colleagues in 1992; an armed assault at Dawson College, killing one student; and the election-night attack on a Parti Québécois victory rally in 2012 that killed one bystander. These are all in addition to the Jan. 29 terrorist attack on a Quebec City mosque, killing six.

His answer to his question seems to be that “Quebec’s dark history of anti-Semitism, religious bigotry and pro-fascist sentiment” has created a place that’s “inhospitable, arrogant and, yes, noticeably more racist than the Canadian norm.” This conclusion seems to be based on the perceptions and opinions of “English Canadians,” who aren’t too shy to voice their true feelings, at least to him.