applicant go through a face-to-face interview with a Canadian official to judge the applicant's values and his or her acceptance of Canadian "societal norms."

He cited one of his nominees in Ontario, Salim Mansur, who has written that official multiculturalism is a lie.

"A lie based on the idea that all cultures are equal," Bernier said. "A lie destructive of our Western liberal democratic heritage, traditions, and values based on individual rights and freedoms."

Finally, on refugees, he pledged to build fences at popular crossings for migrants between official ports of entry -- including a popular one in Quebec -- and to rely on private sponsorships for funding new immigrants rather than government support.

His speech said that a People's Party government would focus on religious minorities in majority-Muslim countries and "membershad a dysfunctional family

life, that at least one of his uncles beat him on a regular basis, that he had mentally

retarded family members, and that he did poorly in school. Burgess’s school

records were also introduced into evidence, demonstrating his poor academic

performance over the course of his life: his need to repeat the first grade, his

eventual placement into special education classes where he continued to do

extremely poorly, and leaving school after the completion of the ninth grade with

all failing grades with the exception of one D.

      As to Burgess’s intellectual functioning, Dr. Goff explained that he had

conducted no investigation into the matter and administered no intelligence testing.

Rather, Dr. Goff testified that he had read the reports of a Dr. Shealy, an expert for

the defense,