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Andre Drouin's lips curl up in a mischievous grin as he recalls the insults hurled at him at the height of the Herouxville affair in 2007.
"Twit, moron, xenophobe, racist, stupid — all of it," says the retired engineer who penned the infamous municipal charter barring the stoning, burning and genital mutilation of women in this hamlet north of Trois-Rivieres, Que.
Not that such atrocities had the remotest chance of being committed in this sleepy dairy-farming crossroads, then or now.
But that didn't stop the charter from bringing down an international media frenzy on Herouxville and igniting a provincewide debate on how far Quebec should go to accommodate minorities.