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Re: Welcome to Quebec/repressed liberties

#386
From: Steve Potter
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:48
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From article <726677019.AA04884@illusion.tpg.org>, by Yvon.Decelles@f420.n514.z17.illusion.tpg.org (Yvon Decelles):
> 
>  SP> There shouldn't be any need to go through this crap to get access to
>  SP> the schooling of ones choice in the first place!
>  
>  I can see the logic of making immigrant go to french school when
>  coming to live in QC, however, I think that if they previously had
>  english education then then should be allowed same as the anglo
>  resident in QC to send their kids to english school.
> 

Well, you have come part way - and I do appreciate that.

>  SP> Who are you to judge?
> 
>  A francophone parent sending his child to an anglophone school.
> 

You had a choice.

>  SP> Are you suggesting that problems for immigrants (and citizens who
>  SP> landed after 1977!!) are nothing to be concerned about? Perhaps because
>  SP> they are not "pure-wool" Quebecers? :-((((
> 
>  Not at all, What I am suggesting is that when immigant come here and
>  have no former education in english or in french it's prefectly
>  legitimate to force them to go to french school. I don't see any major
>  harm in that. If they don't like-it then they can always move to ONT or
>  other province who don't even provide french speaking people with basic
>  teaching in french.
> 

I won't take issue with you now.

You have come part way and that is what groups like ALLIANCE QUEBEC are 
trying to achieve at the moment. I will leave the issue of Freedom of
choice until late spring. (Watch this space! :-) )

bye for now.


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  ||| Steve Potter:         steven@spxtech.qc.ca                       |||
  ||| Expertise/Experience: Computer Systems Engineering / Real Ale /  |||
  |||                       Politics in Education in Quebec            |||
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  ||| Steve Potter:         steven@spxtech.qc.ca                       |||
  ||| Expertise/Experience: Computer Systems Engineering / Real Ale /  |||
  |||                       Politics in Education in Quebec            |||
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