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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a3441
- From: Sandra_Warner@mindlink.bc.ca (Sandra Warner)
- Subject: Re: Student relocation & employment in Canada
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Distribution: can
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:47:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <18803@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > Daniel Martin writes:
- > >Anyone thinking of moving to Quebec should be made aware that:-
- > >
- > >1) Noone is allowed to send their children to English schools in Quebec
- > > unless they were educated in English in Canada! :-((((((
- >
- > If people move to France, Germany, Japan, etc. and use their public
- > school system, they won't have much choice either.
- >
- >+ Sandy writes:
- >+ Then why is it that the rest of Canada would be considered "racist" if we
- >+ said only English was allowed in the public schools? French Emersion in
- >+ the rest of Canada was all but forced on us, If you wanted your kids to
- >+ get a good education you put them in the Emersion program only because the
- >+ Government alloted a far larger amount of money to the program.
- >
- >
- > In Canada, one should learn/use both official language (french/english).
- > If people want to live in Quebec, this "law" insure that they or their
- > family
- > will eventually migrate to the french language.
- >
- > In many countries, this migration is left to economic pressure (have to
- > learn the language to earn a living). Faced with assimilation problems,
- > especially by tens of thousands immigrants choosing each year to live in
- > Quebec
- > entirely in english (often for economic reasons), we had not many choice.
- >
- >
- >+
- >+ That is boloney!!! The rest of Canada is expected to learn both
- >+ languages, while Quebec forces everyone to learn only theirs! I agree
- >+ with people learning both languages, that goes for Quebec as well.
- >
- >
- > >
- > >2) Noone is allowed to place a commercial sign (such as "Fresh Fish
- > Today")
- > > on the outside of a commercial building in Quebec. :-(
- >
- >
- > But inside the store, everything can be both french and english,
- > or in any language as long as french is at least of equal weight.
- >
- >+
- >+ I have gone into stores in Quebec and If you don't speak french you are
- >+ ignored! Even when the clerks understand English perfectly well. I had
- >+ my daughter with me, who is a graduate of the French Emersion Program and
- >+ she was horrified at the comments in French when the clerks thought we
- >+ didn't understand what they were saying. I would never go there at all,
- >+ except that we have family living there, and they are working hard to
- >+ leave. They are made to feel unwelcome because they can't speak French.
- >+ This country would be in a sorry shape if we made everyone who doesen't
- >+ speak our own language unwelcome.
- >+
- >+ Well Steve, that's my 2 cents worth, but that is a lot of money to me! :)
- >
- >
- > Steve Potter: steven%spxtech@CAM.ORG |||
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