[BluesBud]

I will repeat this but kindly go to the beginning of the thread to see my point.

I have lived in Ontario and Quebec. Regardless of the split of anglophone, francophone, or allophone constituents, that are in a riding, or the party or if it is fedreal or provincial, they always find the way to do these mailings bilingual. Except for this clown.

Again if this was the other way around, there would be hell to pay. The BLOC would turn the House upside down.

[BluesBud]

Ok some of you are making the point that if you have less Anglos than francophones in a riding then it is ok to send info in French only.

Then take this case. In some ridings in West Island Montreal there are ridings that are mostly English and have English MPs. Is it ok for them to send info only in English.

NO BLOODY WAY THAT"S GONNA HAPPEN!

WHY? Because the PQ & The BLOC would have the "offending MP" drawn and quartered.

Should be just as wrong. So the solution is send it in both. This is what they HAVE been doing. So why the change now?

[Knoss]

I was reffering specifiaclly to ridings were billingualism is not practised. Your bloc MP should send bilingual materieals.

My concern is that if bilinguallism is legislated it could limit the representation of Western and Atlantic Canada.

[BluesBud]

I agree there is no need for Albertans for example to have this correspondence sent in both languages. In at least Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick it is warranted but I don't think legislation is needed. Just a sensibility for ones constituents.

From what I see, this is only a mean spirited political game for this MP and his party. There is no other reason for not sending this in both official languages.

The kicker is that he is the BLOC's "Critic on Official Languages".

[CapeApe]

BluesBud wrote:

Ok some of you are making the point that if you have less Anglos than francophones in a riding then it is ok to send info in French only.

Then take this case. In some ridings in West Island Montreal there are ridings that are mostly English and have English MPs. Is it ok for them to send info only in English.

NO BLOODY WAY THAT"S GONNA HAPPEN!

WHY? Because the PQ & The BLOC would have the "offending MP" drawn and quartered.

Should be just as wrong. So the solution is send it in both. This is what they HAVE been doing. So why the change now?

Then by the sounds of some of these compaintants I shouldn't get any french languge crap at all
since thos eof us fortunate enough to live in Cape Breton don't speak french..nor is there a large
french population...maybe we should start posting in Gaelic..

Have at them BluesBud it your tax dollar get it in english

[grainfedprairieboy]

BluesBud wrote:

I agree there is no need for Albertans for example to have this correspondence sent in both languages. In at least Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick it is warranted but I don't think legislation is needed. Just a sensibility for ones constituents.

From what I see, this is only a mean spirited political game for this MP and his party. There is no other reason for not sending this in both official languages.

The kicker is that he is the BLOC's "Critic on Official Languages".

Following the formation of the Bloc they had a 800 info number that all English Canadians could access. When we patriots discovered that the Bloc had to pay for each call hundreds of us flooded the lines each day to "debate" with the operators. The cost was presumably so cumbersome the Bloc dropped the line about two months after its conception and restricted it to Quebec anglos only.

Years ago when I was in the Arctic, everybody spoke either English or Inuktitut. A bone of contention for the Inuit was that they could not get federal services in their language but a government of Canada French bureaucrat sat around like the Maytag repair man waiting for the unlikely day some Quebecer should ever venture into the office and demand he be served in French.

In Alberta French registers number 13 as a minority language. Unless recently changed, the City of Edmonton will service you in English, Spanish or Chinese but no French. Even the banks here will service you in Chinese.

My point is, official language or otherwise, you should represent all your constituents or you have no business representing any of them.

[BluesBud]

Well a new info mailing has arrived today. IN FRENCH ONLY although I am on "The English List". I called the office only to receive an apologetic response and a promise of an English copy will be put in the mail for me this evening.

My battle with the Bloc continues.

[Mr_Canada old]

Albertans?

The only thing I don't get bilingually would be the paper.

I have no complaints.

Quebec shouldn't either. Bilingualize these pan flits.

BluesBud, it's the Bloc, full of brain dead separatists who think Canada is modern day Nazi Germany. You can't expect much.

[Fascisti]

[font=Verdana] This thread only serves to prove that we, as unified Canadians, need to crush the Quebecois once and for all! Let us make Canada a unilingual nation! If the Quebecois do not comply, simply send in the tanks! [/font]