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Re: The Quebec Letter: Galganov

#64
From: John Connolly
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:00
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Harry S. Margel Communications Inc. wrote:
> 
> John Connolly wrote:
> >
> > David Nicholson wrote:
> > >
> > > rkish@ivory.trentu.ca ecrivait:
> > >
> > > >In article <5773mh$2i8@news.netonecom.net>, bbcat@netonecom.net (Catudal) writes:
> > >
> > > >>There are services available in French but you have to know where they're
> > > >>at and even then you have to wait because the person in question isn't there
> > > >>or is too busy. You go to a federal government office in Trois-Rivi๏ฟฝres for instance
> > > >>where there are only a few hundred anglos and there is no problem finding
> > > >>someone who speaks English. I know, I lived there and my wife didn't speak
> > > >>any French at the time and was pleasantly surprised by the courteous attitude
> > > >>of everyone she encountered.
> > > >>
> > > >Interesting that you should bring that up....Mme Beaudoin's new language
> > > >legislation seeks to put an end to services like that, doesn't it?
> 
> First of all, Beaudoin's policies only apply to services provided by the
> Quebec government. They have nothing to do with federal government
> services which you describe above. Secondly, english-speakers will
> continue to receive services in their language at a much higher level in
> Quebec than french-speakers receive from any other provincial government
> elsewhere in Canada.
> 
> > > M. Kish:
> > >
> > > La reponse est non.
> > >
> > > David
> >
> > People of good will have always had the upper hand in Quebec. Why 2
> > prime recipients of transfer payments -- Elijah Harper & Clyde Wells
> > were allowed to scuttle a low cost initiative to redesign Confederation
> > only a forensic sociologist could say. Rene Levesque put it best when
> > he reprimanded errant party members with " dissention has run amongst
> > us like a rat for 300 years."
> >
> > But English Canada can no longer count on this lack of focus. One plan
> > to deflate the billowing egos of provincial 'leaders' might be to pick
> > a time to jam their phones, faxes & email servers with an indication
> > that many Canadians want a resolution to this endless bickering.
> > --
> 
> First you say that people of goodwill have the upper hand, then you say
> that english canada can no longer count on the lack of focus. That
> doesn't sound like goodwill to me.
> 
> What gives english canada the right to manipulate or keep quebec in a
> state of perpetual childhood?
> Then you even have the gaul to complain about this state of "endless
> bickering".
> No wonder they can't even talk to you.
> 
> > John Connolly
> > Image Control Corp. - Remanufactured & Generic Toner Cartridges
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J'ai passe quinze ans en parlant avec toutes sortes de gens au Quebec.
Et vous M. sait tout?
-- 


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From: John Connolly <image@baldhead.com>
Subject: Re: The Quebec Letter: Galganov
Date: 1996/11/29
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