Re: The Quebec Letter: Galganov

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From: David Lloyd-Jones
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:00

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rkish@ivory.trentu.ca wrote:

>This is where you are precisely wrong Mme Charest- the FACT of the matter is
>that Ukrainians, Germans, Poles, Czechs, Austrians, Scandinavians, etc... were
>the one's who largely opened up the west.  They were one of the founding
>peoples of that region and the country because it was the settlement of those
>peoples that furthered the possibility of Canada in the first place- farming on
>marginal land, contributing to the staple economy, etc....

Uh, actually when the Ukranians, Icelanders, Germans, East European
Jews etc. turned up to work the west, they found it already opened up
and explored -- by French speaking Metis.

However I agree with Kish's basic point, that schools should teach
heritage languages of locally representative populations.  This is
sensible not least because Canada is a trading nation, and it pays us
to be able to understand as many other nations as possible on their
own terms.  It is simply a sensible economic investment to be
multicultural, and _effectively_ multicultural, which means teaching
all the languages at the earliest possible ages.

                                  -dlj.

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From: dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones)
Subject: Re: The Quebec Letter: Galganov
Date: 1996/09/14
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