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In article <5773mh$2i8@news.netonecom.net>, bbcat@netonecom.net (Catudal) writes:
>In <32968d2c.2053151@news.inetworld.net>, rcf@inetworld.net writes:
>>
>>In the first place, it's a flat out lie that Francophones get no
>>services in other provinces.  In the second place, it is obscenely
>
>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�res 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?

>>patronizing to say that Quebec  is "giving" anything to the
>>Anglophones, many of whom have been in Quebec for a couple hundred
>
>I'll agree that some people exagerate on this issue but you're not much better
>so be quiet.
>
Michel, then why are you speaking?  You, who exagerrates (sp?) on 
everything imaginable (the Octobre Crisis, ethnocentricism, etc...), really 
shouldn't tell anyone else to keep quiet.
>>
>>What Canada is about is tolerance - something you might be able to
>>figure out had you ever traveled to other parts of Canada.  Try living
>>in this country.  If the U.S. had ever had to put up with Quebecois
>>whining and separatism, we'd have dealt with it in a heavy-handed
>>manner that you can't even imagine.  You're so damn insulated that
>>you've lost all perspective of what it's like to live in a really
>>repressive country.
>>
>You're somewhat of a stupid idiot, a moron! didn't you notice that?
>For your information the USA has allready done just that. Remember the war
>between the states?

I think that was his point....and I think you ought to cease the name 
calling in this area- the vary idea that everyone ought to know American 
history borders on the same kind of elitism that some Quebecers on this 
newsgroup accuse all Anglophones of having.


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