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Article #1271Re: Federal hirings: 71% francophone, promotions: 68% francophone
From: Walt Strauss
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:31
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:31
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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.
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