🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 06:57:16 -0400, Walt Strauss <ws.hra@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

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>Deep Blue wrote:
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>> 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.
>

I think all those who seek advancement to the highest levels of the
federal civil service should be required to have a Ph.D. in
Mathematics or Physics.  I want that because it favours me and my
friends.  Some training in logic might well be a very useful commodity
for civil servants.  Trouble is their political masters would never
understand it.