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Article #1269Re: Federal hirings: 71% francophone, promotions: 68% francophone
From: News
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:37
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:37
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"Walt Strauss" <ws.hra@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:3E9DD9CB.9F49C02E@sympatico.ca...
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>
> News wrote:
>
> > "Walt Strauss" <ws.hra@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> > news:3E9DA434.BDC6BE77@sympatico.ca...
> > > I just don't see the point in screwing up the lives of the majority of
our
> > > citizens in order to make work and give power to the 25% minority.
Most of
> > whom
> > > live in a racist province that has seen fit to invoke the not
withstanding
> > > clause in order push as many non francos out of their province as
> > possible.
> >
> > I think we're on the same side here, for the most part. I support
the
> > idea of making resources available for students to learn second
languages,
> > but I don't think that language should be so explicitly limited towards
> > French. If German, Spanish or even Chinese were offered in school
rather
> > than French (Or as well as French) we would see a significantly higher
> > percentage of the population being multilingual. But not necessarily in
the
> > French language.
>
> If only this were *just* about learning to speak a second language.
Ah yes. Thank You, I almost forgot that langauge and learning really
has very little to do with the situation. Thanks for the reminder.
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