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- From: aidler@sanjuan.UVic.CA (E Alan Idler)
- Subject: Re: Reform Party vs Quebec (was Reform Party)
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- Organization: University of Victoria
- References: <1992Nov23.144230.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1992Nov24.010702.1886@mdivax1.uucp>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 03:26:51 GMT
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- robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim Robinson) writes:
-
- >>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.
- >--
-
- The Reform Party would see French and English services
- equally in the national Canadian institutions, Parliament, etc.
- and federal services in either language in regions
- where numbers warrant.
-
- Provinces would determine what languages they use to
- communicate with their citizens (as in the Swiss model
- mentioned).
-
- Beyond that, the responsibility for nuturing language
- and culture rests with individuals. If these values are
- important to people, they will sustain them.
-
- These policies are not "racist" in the slightest. They
- do shake the foundations of the entrenched multi-cultural
- movement, however.
-
- A IDLER
-