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- From: steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter)
- Subject: Re: Quebec
- References: <Bxq4w3.MBA@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.124928.13635@spxtech.qc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:49:28 GMT
- Organization: Securiplex Technologies Inc., Montreal, Canada
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- From article <Bxq4w3.MBA@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, by beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard):
- > In article <1992Nov8.104225.6756@spxtech.qc.ca> steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter) writes:
- >>From article <Bx9J56.FB8@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>, by beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca
- >>Denis Beauregard writes:-
- >>
- >>> In article <1992Oct27.140016.13677@bmerh85.bnr.ca> viking@bmerh66.bnr.ca
- >>> writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>And racism is not rampant in Quebec? Talk to the Cree or Mohawks.
- >>>
- >>> Compare the number of Natives being educated in their own language
- >>> to that in other provinces and you will find that your remark is
- >>> absolutely irrelevant.
- >>>
- >>
- >>There are about 12,000 English-speaking children in Quebec who are declared
- >>"ineligible for instruction in English". Can Denis have forgotten that fact
- >>so soon? :-(
- >>
- > He Steve: I thought you were supposed to be back to work (-;
- >
- > Your phrase should be:
- >
- > There are about 12,000 English-speaking children in Quebec whose parents
- > voluntarily moved to Quebec since 1976 and these parents, instead of
- > accepting rules existing before they migrated, complaint.
- >
-
- Denis suggested that the lack of "Native" education in other provinces,
- compared to the lack of Cree and Mohawk education in Quebec, makes the
- assertion that racism is rampant in Quebec "irrelevant".
-
- The ROC is doing it, to one degree or another, so we can do it too!
- - so to speak. :-(
-
-
- In response to being reminded that 12,000 English children are also denied
- access to their own (existing!) language community schools in Quebec, he
- says that those families came here voluntarily after such rules came into
- existence and complain.
-
- People who think rules are racist or unjust should not complain about them
- if they came here after those rules were established!
- - so to speak. :-(
-
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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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