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- From: myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui)
- Subject: Re: Reform Party vs Quebec (was Reform Party)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.041310.4357@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1992Nov23.144230.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1992Nov24.010702.1886@mdivax1.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 04:13:10 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Nov24.010702.1886@mdivax1.uucp> robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com (Jim Robinson) writes:
- >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.
-
- Jim, you're really a blind follower. Sit back, and consider tearing
- up your party card. Yeltsin did, with a flourish too, and look where
- he is now. You can do it too, and you may end up like Yeltsin too.
-
- The Reform policy of leaving support for the french language up to the
- provinces means that support for the french language in schools and the
- public service will simply stop in all provinces except Quebec and
- Ontario, and maybe in a small pocket in New Brunswick. Why? Because
- support for the french language in the public sector and in education
- is largely brought about by the large Quebec vote at the federal
- level. Not a majority, of course, but enough pull to make the feds
- realize that the francophone Canadians are Real People too, and _all_
- francophone Canadians, no matter what province they are in, are also
- Real People, and should be entitled to services and education in the
- french language where numbers warrent. Leaving this public policy
- decision to the provincial level means that in most cases the
- francophones will be so outnumbered in most votes (far far less than
- 24%) that their voices will be forever drowned out. RP talkes about
- central Canadian domination, yet they advocate language majority
- domination to the _exclusion_ of the minority language speakers. The
- tactic is an old one: divide and conquer. Even Hill & Knowlton doesn't
- charge its customers anything to give out that piece of advice.
- --
- Michael MY Hui ~{╨φ├≈╢≈~} myhui@bnr.ca Ottawa Canada
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