VIP wrote:So if learning french for you is so absurb what do you propose? No more french at all in quebec? Or no laws to regulate the languages nowhere?
Carmel, although you know some English, you are not fully functional in it. That's the sad consequences of Bill 101.
I talk about Canada, you interpret it about Quebec.
Learning French is okay with me, unless it becomes a condition for applying for or keeping a job in English Canada where 96% of the population are anglophones. Don't you think it's absurd?
You, in Quebec, thought it's absurd that Anglos dominate your job market and political power. You fought and won. Why do you think it's wrong for us, Anglos, to protect our turf?
Let's make a peace: you keep your French language and culture in Quebec and we keep our English language and culture in English Canada. Deal?
It doesn't work that way. French Canadians learn English easily because their province is a tiny island in a giant sea of English. They are bombarded by English from all sides and at every turn. The best movies, music, and media are in English, and most of their relatives already speak English. French Canadian children learn English easily, because they use what they learn,
of necessity.
It is the complete opposite for English kids learning French outside Quebec. They never hear it, they never use it, and almost noone that they know uses it. So even if they spend years and untold money learning French, they have great difficulty learning it, do not use what they learn, and do not retain it
Official bilingualism means that these bilingual Quebec kids will be considered morally and intellectually superior when applying for a job, and as a result English people are being frozen out of influential and highly paying positions throughout the public and private sector.
It has got to end.
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Anyone looking for work in Ottawa who does not speak french
knows how ridiculous the hiring prospects re: french requirements are.
Virtually all of the french people in Ontario and Ottawa can
and do speak English every day, yet the English speaking people are being forced to learn a language that is neither used nor in particular demand.
Quebec is officially unilingual french and have driven hundreds of thousands of English from their province, Quebec-born prime ministers from Trudeau to Mulroney to Chretien, and a tiny elite of bilingual liberals have spent the past thirty years forcing official bilingualism on the rest of Canada.
Immigrants who know both their native language and English should not be forced to learn French in order to work. It is unnecessary, wasteful, expensive, and discriminatory. It is time to stand up for your rights as an employee and a tax payer.
Sign the petition to end official bilingualism.
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Less Ottawa.
