The use of '' pure laine '' was brought to the forefront following its controversial usage in the front-page article by Jan Wong in Canada 's nationally distributed newspaper , '' The Globe and Mail , '' on September 16 , 2006 , three days after the shooting at Dawson College in Montreal . In her article entitled " Get under the desk , " Wong argued that the frequent and historic use of the term '' pure laine '' revealed a uniquely Québécois brand of racism . " Elsewhere , to talk of racial ' purity ' is repugnant . Not in Quebec . " Furthermore , she suggested that the school shootings might have been related to the fact that the perpetrators were not old-stock French Québécois and they had been alienated by a Quebec society concerned with " racial purity . " Wong 's accusations were denounced by '' National Post '' journalist , Barbara Kay , then-Premier Jean Charest and the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste ( SSJB ) . SSJB President Jean Dorion declared " There is no obsession for racial purity in Quebec , definitely not . ... The expression ' pure laine ' is absolutely obsolete . " However the term was still frequently used in both English and French media . And in 2007 , the Taylor-Bouchard Commission included the recommendation that the use of the expression " Québécois de souche " be ended and replaced with the term " Quebecers of French-Canadian origin . " The Commission investigated reasonable accommodation of immigrants into Quebec society
shooting at Dawson College
Dawson College shooting
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