William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "frank theriault" > Subject: Re: A flag question for Canadians > > > >> I don't know what part of "most of Canada" you've been in, but here in >> Toronto (Canada's largest city) there ain't speck of French to be >> found on road signs; the same can be said of Southern Ontario, except >> perhaps around Ottawa and near the Quebec border. >> > > In Regina, the federal civil service seems to be run by forced expatriates > from Quebec who have a my shit don't stink attitude and a tendency to treat > the non French citizenry (that would be just about the entire population) > like second class citizens. > This probably explains at least part of my attitude. > > William Robb > >
The Federal Civil Service is predominantly francophone due to preferred hiring for Bilinguals, French Speakers are far more likely to be fully Bilingual than English Speakers (Both as a percentage of total population, and in gross numbers). Thus you have a lot of such forced expats stuck in various places across the country. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
