Philippe Verdy wrote on July 21, 2003 at 1:48 AM > This one decision of the official terminology group is not stupid: it adopts a term that is now spread among French and Canadian natives,
Best avoid the phrase 'Canadian natives'. Even though it might theoretically embrace all of us who were born here, in actual practice it is effectively restricted to refer to aboriginal peoples. 'Native Canadian' is a better phrase; even better just drop the 'native' for our particular case. K

