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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�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?

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.


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