----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maas" Subject: Re: A flag question for Canadians
> > > 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. Yes, I know the reasoning, it would, however, be nice to be able to communicate with the people who are supposed to be serving us. The bar seems to be set very low for the level of English required to be considered fully bilingual, and I don't appreciate being required to understand pigeon french in order to aquire government services, which is what is, effectively, required. I learned Parisian French in school, not the duck squawking that is spoken in Quebec. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
