Re: The Quebec Letter: Galganov

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From: Jim Robinson
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:00

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In article <511beg$8cg@ns.RezoNet.NET>, Jacques Ferron wrote:
>
>The Qu�bec Government is giving anglophones English-language schools, TV, 
>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�b�cois are nazis, and posts it for all the
>world to see!

FWIW, I agree that the Nazi comparison is ludicrous. I certainly don't
like Quebec's sign laws (past and present), but to equate Quebec with
Nazi Germany insults those who suffered truly unspeakable horrors.


-- 
Jim Robinson
robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com

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From: robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com (Jim Robinson)
Subject: Re: The Quebec Letter: Galganov
Date: 1996/09/10
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