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Hérouxville Mayor Bernard Thompson's hints that the town council was considering scrapping its controversial "code of conduct" have created an uproar in the small community. A group of residents and councillors called an emergency meeting last week to tell the mayor they wanted him to backtrack on his comments.
In 2007, then-town councillor André Drouin co-authored the "life code," which warned prospective immigrants to the village of 1,300 residents that they were not allowed to burn or stone women or practice female circumcision.
Last month, Thompson said some residents wanted to distance themselves from the document and are tired of being asked about it every time they tell someone they are from Hérouxville, a small town north of Trois-Rivières.