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# A toxic and false image of the very essence of our identity

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25 July 2020

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Me Dubé was among some fifty Montrealers of Haitian origin to sign an open letter expressing their aversion to a recent Le Devoir column that "conveys a toxic and false image of the very essence of our identity."

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