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- From: laviers@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Cocotte Minute)
- Subject: Re: Access denied?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.185109.19103@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
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- Organization: Universite de Montreal, Canada
- References: <1993Jan18.140817.28475@spxtech.qc.ca> <1993Jan20.153913.4802@seachg.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:51:09 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.153913.4802@seachg.uucp> chrisb@seachg.UUCP (Chris Blask) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan18.140817.28475@spxtech.qc.ca> steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter) writes:
- >>Posted: 18th January, 1993
- >>
-
- [lotsa good stuff coming from the american hat deleted]
-
- >
- > A great deal of talk and debate (and action) in the 'English'
- > provinces about meeting the needs of the French-speaking members of
- > the population. Just recently one of the big news items in Ontario
- > was the need for more French school space, and I believe the space
- > was alloted (I may be wrong, but the point remains). Everything I
-
- It's all a question of proportions... Ottawa, for example, which
- has always had a very big franco population, has never had a public franco
- school before 1979. When Francojeunesse school was founded, I went there for
- one year in 1980. The quality of French being taught was pitiful: the
- teachers even made serious grammar mistake in our report cards.
- I still don't know if there are any more public franco schools in
- Ottawa, a part from that one.
-
- My point is: Ontario (and I assume the other anglo provinces) has always
- been behind Quebec in it's treatement of lingual minorities.
-
- One BIG "BUT":
- The problem, is that I would like to send my kids (when I get some :) )
- to engligh kindergarden here in Quebec, as a franco (under 101), I'm not
- intitled to a choice.
- 101 and 178 should not prevent a choice of language, but should ensure
- the PRESENCE on french in quebec.
-
- > see is French and English, and I think it's great! As an American,
- > I find it wonderful that people should actually make an effort to
- > speak more than one language, seeing how the rest of the world does
- > it. Most of the French I know (limited) I learned from jam jars
- > and cereal boxes.
-
- Grammar and spelling mistakes for free!
- The current trend in Quebec seems to be to discourage bilingualism.
- It is seen as "giving in" to the enemy. As one can see with the
- flaming of that "nintendo" franco person for posting in english.
-
- >
- > On the other hand (maybe this is just the media, but I don't think
- > so), the news I hear out of Quebec is of _limiting_ languages! No
- > non-French signs, apparently no non-French schools... This is teh
- > attitude that is always attributed to the States, with great
- > disgust.
-
- Exactly my point! I see a very short sighted and demagogic (does this word
- exist in English?) attitude coming from our leaders in Quebec city.
- >
- >I wonder what the rationalization for the difference is? The referendum
- >vote seemed to clearly show that the majority of residents of Quebec don't
- >want to separate, but why the political antagonism?
-
- Ahhh, but the independentistes will tell you that you are wrong, and
- if a referendum would be held today, they would win. I beleive the contrary.
-
- >
- >-chris blask
- >
-
- Seb
-
-
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