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I direct you attention to a thread I started a while back.

http://www.canadaka.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=22444

As a resident in M. Richard Nadeau's riding I am appalled by His record on bilingualism. He does not offer bilingual mailings. Perhaps his point of view is that Anglos must speak French, shouldn't be the same on the other side of the issue as well? That door swings both ways!

He is the Bloc's language critic. I guess he needed something to do to justify his job.

Dbl Post

In the mid eighties, my 15 yr old sister came to live with me in Montreal, she was in gr 10.
When I went to register her in school, I couldn't believe the rig a ma roll!
If I wasn't able to prove that I had gone to school in Quebec - in English - my kid sister would have been FORCED to go to a French School! (thank goodness I had finished my elementary and high school)

Two points there!
One: A student who has not learned a language - fluently and is forced to be educated in a foreign language, loses grades and spends time needlessly on having to learn the language
Two: One would think that it's against our rights to have such a thing shoved down our throats! We may be in a bilingual country and both languages are taught in the school systems, but to FORCE it upon someone into learning a language, mid way in their education, so as to be ABLE to continue their education, denotes the lack of respect, rights and concern for their "canadian - quebecois" citizens.

It's no wonder corporations moved out of Quebec and it's no wonder why potential new businesses don't move in. What if a business man from B.C. saw potential in the uncapped forest industry of Quebec and moved there with his 5 english children? - if he didn't put them in private schools or pay tutors, then he'd be forced to force his children to lose a year of schooling (and possibly deter their education being discouraged having to learn a whole new language) and place them into a French School system.

I moved there when I was a kid from Toronto and didn't speak a word of french, however over time, with a bit I'd learned in school and out into the job market, I picked it up pretty fast, without being forced! My daughter, who is now 32, spoke french first before speaking english. She spoke both by the time she hit 3 yrs old. I wanted her to be multi lingual - a choice and she has certainly benefitted by both languages and has friends both french and english - but to force people, well, is communist and controlling and who can respect that?

Hear HEAR!