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Deep Blue wrote:

> Well, it's all your fault, english people! If only you were doing the same
> efforts to speak french that us french people do to speak english, those
> stats would be more fair for you.

Well fancy that, the man's saying that it's the English who are at fault because
the French language is used so little by any but the French that learning it and
retaining it are almost impossible for any but themselves. Christ! They even had
to use a racist law (bill 101) to try to force their own people to retain their
language.  How or why would or could anyone else want to use it?

The requirement to speak French, however useless, is a nice neat high jump with
which to prevent all but the only ones that speak French from holding office.
The only reason the requirement is there is because it works just the way it is
supposed to. It gives a totally disproportionate number of jobs and all the jobs
with power to the French. All the politicians know that.  None has had the
courage to stand against the enactment of these seemingly harmless laws that
simply accommodate linguistic fairness in the workplace.

>
>
> And we're all still Canadians (no i'm not a separatist). So who cares if
> there's more francophones than anglophones??? Just learn the french language
> and be bilingual and get hired / promoted too !

Who cares? Well one might not think that it would not matter, but it does!

 Bilingualism is a French Canadian creation devised by a succession of French
Prime Ministers, to strip Anglos of all power. Canada was an English country
with a French province. The language of the land was that of the majority and
the language of the French province was that of the majority of that province.
The arrangement was quite reasonable. Both majorities used their own language
(so to speak).

Actually, we are not all Canadians. There are Canadians and there are French
Canadians. The French Canadians are a warm hearted wonderful group. But they are
a group, and what my seventy odd years of working beside and with them has shown
me, is that their history has taught them to look after their brothers, sisters,
cousins, community, region and province to the exclusion of all else. In a word
they exhibit a siege mentality. They are for anything French Canadian and
against anything not French Canadian. It's a wonderful trait but it is the basis
of systemic racism.

As wonderful a society as they are, if you are not French, these are not the
people you want looking after your country. You might wake up some morning and
find that the language of the majority was no longer the language of the
country. You might wake up and find that all the jobs in your federal service
are filled with Frenchmen and all their unqualified cousins ants and uncles and
worse yet, they were locked into those jobs for life with guaranteed government
pensions that you will have to pay for until they die and their survivors
ta-boot. You might wake up to find that all the government contracting is
directed into Quebec. You might wake up to find out that the job you have had
for years has been designated BILINGUAL. You might wake up to find that your
town has been amalgamated and is suddenly BILINGUAL. You might wake up some
morning and take note that nothing new is ever being built in your city but
oddly enough the town opposite you, in Quebec, has more new buildings and
construction that it can handle and that BILINGUALS are moving into it from all
over it to take advantage of the French prosperity.

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>
> And while I love english because it's a very practical and direct language,
> french is so beautiful and poetic! It's worth to learn it just to read all
> those french books.

That means so, so much to me.

>
>
> ~Deep Blue~
>
> "Andrew Bestfrenn" <Andrewbestfrenn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c499781f.0304050425.47fd67db@posting.google.com...
> > Global National News with Kevin Newman audio link
> >
> > Hear audio of Global Television News story confirming
> > that 71% of all new hirings in the massive federal
> > public service are going to Francophones, and that 68% of
> > all job promotions are going to Francophones. Due to official
> > bilingualism, while Quebec is allowed to remain officially unilingual
> > French.  Francophones make up only a tiny fraction of the population
> > outside Quebec, yet we are allowing them to take over our federal
> > government.
> >
> > to hear the Global News audio
> > click here:
> > http://www.languagefairness.org/mp3/global.mp3
> >
> > to hear a tape of human rights expert Dr. Ritchie on this
> > topic go to:
> >
> > http://www.languagefairness.org/mp3/CFRA-Part1.mp3
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://www.languagefairness.org/mp3/3minclipDrRitchie04.mp3
> >
> > for further information:
> >
> >
> > www.languagefairness.org