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Re: The Quebec Letter: Galganov

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From: Richard Canton
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 00:00
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Jacques Ferron wrote:
> =

> In article <50n2t8$pdr@wpg-01.escape.ca>, jbuchy@escape.ca (Opus) wrote:W=
hy are you so terrified of English signs JF? Can you imagine the stink sepa=
ratists would raise if French signs =

were restricted anywhere in the rest of Canada? The language of business is=
 profit JR. If a business posts =

signs in a language that is inappropriate, it will know very soon. Why does=
 a government have to legislate =

that? That is why people are scared. What would be next? =

> >
> >Please speak for yourself. I for one am GLAD he posted here. The issue
> >at hand is far too important to be preoccupied about where the message
> >is placed. The message must reach as many as possible. Our countrys
> >future may depend on it.
> >
> =

> The Qu=E9bec Government is giving anglophones English-language schools, T=
V,
> papers, movie houses, hospitals and government services, which is a heck =
of a
> lot more than francophones get in any other province.  Then it asks "But
> we want you guys to extend us the same courtesy and cool it with the
> English-only signs, at least in public".  And some nut decides that this =
is
> comparable to Auschwitz and the Qu=E9b=E9cois are nazis, and posts it for=
 all the
> world to see!
> =

> Now you come in saying that the country's future DEPENDS on this criminal=
ly
> insane hate literature reaching as many as possible?
> =

> Well, if that's what Canada is all about, you can stop wondering why so m=
any
> Qu=E9b=E9cois are saying "Stop that country -- I want to get off"
> =

> JF
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From: Richard Canton <rcanton@hookup.net>
Subject: Re: The Quebec Letter: Galganov
Date: 1996/09/09
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