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- From: steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steven C. Potter)
- Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
- Subject: Re: RACISM???/Access to English schools
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.102134.23328@spxtech.qc.ca>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:21:34 GMT
- References: <Bs2tos.AL6@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
- Organization: Securiplex Technologies Inc., Montreal, Canada
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- From article <Bs2tos.AL6@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, by beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
- Denis Beauregard writes:-
-
- >>world, therefore, women should hold 51% of posts in government. There are
- >>40% anglophones in Quebec, therefore they should have 40% of the radio
- >
- > There _was_, and this in Montreal, not in Quebec (was never more than 20%)
-
- The percentage of the TOTAL Quebec population of English mother tongue
- has fallen from 24% in 1861 to less than 10% today.
-
- I have the figures for Montreal at home - I'll dig them up later.
- Montreal is much higher, of course.
-
- >
- > [Stuff deleted]
- >
- > ... If it is constantly necessary to fight to have something, this is
- > not exactly dignity.
-
- Thank you!
-
- You are showing signs of understanding something of my position.
-
- Constantly fighting to gain the right to have your children attend the
- publicly funded school of your choice; in their own neighbourhood; in
- their own language; is not exactly "dignity" is it!?
-
- > Why is that "united" Canada unable to find something that Quebec will accept?
-
- That's a good question.
-
- Put it another way:-
-
- Why is it that the nationalists in Quebec can not accept anything "united"
- Canada has to offer?
-
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- ||| Steve Potter: steven%spxtech@CAM.ORG |||
- ||| Expertise/Experience: Computer Systems Engineering / Real Ale / |||
- ||| Politics in Education in Quebec |||
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