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- Newsgroups: can.politics
- From: robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim Robinson)
- Subject: Re: Reform Party vs Quebec (was Reform Party)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.010702.1886@mdivax1.uucp>
- Reply-To: robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com (Jim Robinson)
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- References: <1992Nov23.144230.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 01:07:43 GMT
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- John LaRocque (4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca) wrote:
- >Deep down they [the RP] want
- >what the other parties want but have failed to achieve with bilingualism...
- >the restoration of the English language as the domininant economic and cultural
- >language of Quebec and the dominance of the Quebec anglophone community.
-
- Can you substantiate this charge? Can you quote Manning or senior RP
- officials saying something along these lines. Or, can you point to RP
- policy as explained in their policy book to support this contention. If
- not, it seems to me that we are left with an *opinion* that is based on
- nothing more than gut feeling.
-
- >When Preston denounces so-called two-founding nation policies, what he is
- >really saying is that the French language means nothing, either in Ottawa,
- >or Quebec or the rest of Caada. That ultimately he wants what the PC party used
- >to want: a "bilingual" English-dominated Quebec in an official English only
- >Canada. French commmunities outside Quebec are already doomed to extinction.
- >When Preston goes to work... watch as Preston and the Reform party try to do
- >the same thing to Quebecers. 30 years of reform in Quebec flushed down the
- >toilet by the racist Reform party.
-
- As I understand it, Manning would implement a Swiss style language policy;
- i.e., each province, *including Quebec*, would be free to deal with
- language as it saw fit. This would not result in an English dominated
- Quebec by any stretch of the imagination.
- --
- Jim Robinson
- robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com
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