Actually it makes perfect sense. THe Federal Civil Service need to be able to serve to clients in both official languages. Therefore the govenment needs to hire less people if everybody speaks both languages. Ergo a preference for Bilinguals. And since French is the minority language, most francophones learn English anyways, while most Anglophones don't need to (except within Quebec). Canada does have a reasonably large population of non-fluent Bilinguals as well (Like myself, schooled in both languages but my French fluency has atrophied due to non-use).
-Adam graywolf wrote: > That sounds like a well know practice called, "shooting yourself in the > foot". If I had not read "The Human Zoo" I would think it very strange that > so many cultures seem to be insane these days. In the end I suppose we will > deal with over population by killing each other off in acts of mass > destruction. And no, all the words in the world will not change things > because we are hardwired that way. Pretending we aren't will not work either. > > > graywolf > http://www.graywolfphoto.com > http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf > "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" > ----------------------------------- > > > Adam Maas wrote: >> 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
