They call it “security.” We know it’s scapegoating

They call it “security.” We know it’s scapegoating

It starts like this: dawn on a Montreal bus, steel lunch pails rattling, headphones leaking news of a politician — this time Yves-François Blanchet, leader of the Parti Québécois — snarling about “crime” and “immigration” as if the two were welded together at birth. A few heads lift. A few eyes land on the man in the hi-vis jacket with a foreign accent, the woman in scrubs texting in Arabic, the student counting coins for the fare. The speech di…