----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maas" Subject: Re: A flag question for Canadians
> 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). It may make some sense in areas where there is a significant population of both languages, but both languages should still be equally served. At present, this is anything but the situation. Saskatchewan wouldn't have a Francophone population at all were it not for the federal civil service and forced bilingualism bringing Quebecers here. What has happened in the west is that our inherent distrust of the Eastern cabal has been intensified by a very real observation that the federal civil service is run by and for French Canada, and by a general inability to obtain services or iformation from the federal government because the people we are talking to are often not fluent enough in English to be able to communicate sufficiently with us. Regina has a much higher % of Chinese than French, it would make more sense to demand that civil servants be fluent in Mandarin than Quebec French. My French has also atrophied due to lack of use, but my government funded education taught me a useless second language anyway. I REALLY should be filtering this thread. William Robb > 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. >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
