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August 7, 2008
Submissions were invited from the public by the Standing Committee on Finance on how the citizens would like to see the government reduce its expenditures. John Wood has sent in his submission & would encourage as many of us as care about this issue to send in their own submissions. You don’t need to submit such an extensive piece as John has done (you may use some of the information he has provided) but it is important that the government gets as many submissions as possible.
Kim
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Subject: Cost of OB---Finance Committee
Hi all,
The attached is my submission to the Standing Committee on Finance for Budget 2009. You will see that Jim S. Allan has been kind enough to allow me to use some of the results of his very comprehensive work. I hope this will encourage others to also make a submission, by August 15, 2008. If we ever hope to reduce the spending on OB, we all must speak out, and this is an opportunity that should not be allowed to slip by.
John Wood
Submission sent to:
Jean-Francois Page
Clerk, Standing Committee on Finance
6-14, 131 Queen St.
House of Commons
Ottawa ON
K1A 0A6
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Cutting Costs of Official Bilingualism from Budget 2009.
SUMMARY
The Standing Committee on Finance is strongly urged to substantially reduce the funding for Official Bilingualism.
1. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR OFFICIAL BILINGUALISM
a. Federal Ministries, particularly Heritage Canada, Departments, Commissions, Crown Corporations and Public Service.
b. Federal Programs that promote Official Bilingualism.
2. FINANCIAL COSTS (estimated --- see end notes)
a. The Federal cost one year only to March 31, 2008 --- $605 Million (without interest).
b. Federal 40 year total to March 31, 2008 --- $56.266 Billion (including interest to 2007).
c. Total Federal plus Provincial plus Private Sector, 40 years --- $1.15 Trillion.
d. Percentage of population bilingual:1986--16.86%; 2006--17.44; 20 year increase 0.01%; for a Population Increase of 19%; at an average annual cost, Federal government only, of more than $500 Million.
3. HUMAN COSTS
a. Official Bilingualism has created Segregation by Language and Race.
b. It has created a discriminatory Bilingual Elite Class of Canadians.
c. It has created an unfair Affirmative Action Employment Program.
d. Millions of Unilingual Canadians are denied job and promotion opportunities in their own country.
e. Millions relegated to low paying, minimum-wage, part-time employment.
f. It has resulted in the loss of homes, bankruptcy, broken families.
g. Official Bilingualism is Discrimination by Language and Race.
4. POLITICAL ORIGINS
a. The undemocratic Official Languages Acts, 1969, 1988, 2005, and the Constitution Act 1982 with the Charter of (fewer) Rights and (limited) Freedoms
b. The Official Language issue is one of undemocratic 'Language-by-Law'.
c. These Acts transferred the peoples’ democratic power from their elected representatives in Parliament, to unelected Federal Courts.
d. These Acts have created a Canadian Apartheid.
e. Official Bilingualism is a specious Double Standard of Canadian Citizenship.
f. The rationale for Official Bilingualism is the mythical "National Unity" and the racist “Protection of the French Language and Culture”.
I am pleased to offer my written submission to the Standing Committee on Finance for your consideration in preparation of Budget 2009, in response to your government's invitation to Canadians to participate by making a recommendation.
My recommendation to substantially cut funding for Official Bilingualism is based on the following information:
Spending on Official Bilingualism. (Estimated---see end notes)
The Federal cost of Official Bilingualism for one year only to March 31,2008 was $605 Million. (without interest)
The total for one year ending March 31,2008, Federal, Provincial, Municipal and Private Sector was $19 Billion.
The total 40 year cost, 1969 to 2008, for Official Bilingualism for the Federal
Government, Provincial Governments, and Private Sector, $1.15 Trillion !
This is revenue collected (extorted in the name of 'National Unity') from taxpayers; the minority 22.3 percent French-speaking, and the majority 87.7 percent English-speaking. English-speaking taxpayers pay nearly five times as much as the French for this miserable failure called Official Bilingualism. Contrary to popular belief, we are more divided today than ever in our 141 years since Confederation as the Dominion of Canada.
“There is no way that two ethnic groups in one country can be made equal before the law! To say that it is possible is to sow the seeds of destruction!” -- Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1966.
But Trudeau did it anyway, and we now reap the destructive harvest.
Successive governments funded the creation of, and used the “Franco Bank” to recruit thousands of Quebecois to place in English-speaking Canada, to create a demand for bilingual services where there previously was no need. Hundreds of millions were squandered, and these Quebecois are still being funded as agents provocateur.
The democratic form of government we thought we had, prior to the Trudeau regime, was suddenly corrupted by a group of French Quebec politicians, bent on revenge for the British 'Conquest' of New France. They were greedy for the power to control and manipulate the country like a third world dictatorship. "The rights of the minority must be protected" they said. At the expense of the Majority!? The people's representatives in Parliament dismissed the concerns of the majority.
'DEMOCRACY'
1. Government by the people, usually through elected representatives.
2. A form of government in which the people have a say in who should hold power and how it should be used.
3. Control of a group by the majority of its members. (Oxford and Webster's English dictionaries. Perhaps the French language has a different definition of 'democracy'?)
'Only in Canada' does the government employ and fund an entire Ministry (Heritage Canada) to administer the use of languages.
'Only in Canada' does the government employ and fund a 'language police' department (Commissioner of Official Languages) to enforce these 'BAD' language laws.
'Only in Canada' does the federal government interfere in the language of education of the provinces and territories, by funding French Immersion programs and the Parents for French organizations in the English language school system, with no parallel form of English Immersion in Quebec, or even in Officially Bilingual New Brunswick.
Is this not discrimination? Is this not racism? Is it not legislating the disunity of the country? The official segregation of Canadians by language?
LEGISLATION
I note that at no time in our history have the citizens of Canada been consulted, allowed public debate, to deliberate or to participate in any form of democratic process to accept or reject, or to review the Official Languages Acts nor the Constitution Act,1982 with its Charter.
The sole beneficiaries of this program are the unilingual French province of Quebec and the minority French population, which today comprises the majority of ’so-called’ bilinguals, paid for by the Rest of Canada. This minority, bilingual Canadians, now effectively control the government of Canada.
Yet the Rest of Canada is legislated to accept a lopsided concept of Official Bilingualism that requires English-speaking Canadians to become fluent in the French language in order to be employed in their own government. Canada opposed the despicable South African Apartheid. Why do we not oppose this equally specious French-based Apartheid in Canada?
Bad laws must be amended and/or repealed to provide relief from unfair taxation. The bad laws are the OFFICIAL LANGUAGES ACTS, 1969 and 1988, and Bill S-3, 2005, THE CONSTITUTION ACT 1982, particularly THE CHARTER OF (FEWER) RIGHTS AND (LIMITED) FREEDOMS.
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CUTTING FUNDING FOR OFFICIAL BILINGUALISM
The following are some of the areas that the Standing Committee on Finance should review to reduce the Government's spending:
1. Cut the Government's $1 Billion 'Action Plan' to promote and extend the French language throughout Canada (except Quebec).
2. Cut the Bernard Lord recommendation to spend at least $1 Billion to promote and extend Francophone communities outside Quebec, from his "Consultations on Linguistic Duality and Official Languages". This had been a fraudulent waste of tax dollars on a fraudulent "consultation" process with mainly the Franco-phoney organizations outside Quebec, and that failed to democratically consult with the majority of Canadians, and even failed to respond to written concerns.
3. The government’s announced budgeting of some $750,000 to recruit French-speaking immigrants from Africa, to bring their French-second-language, to supplement the French minority communities in the Rest of Canada, outside Quebec.
There are many more language programs that are costly and of little benefit to the values of the majority of Canadians. Heritage Canada Ministry must be the largest single drain on the Canadian economy. The Department of National Defence is probably the second biggest spender on Official Bilingualism. This is another example of governments’ hypocritical double standard.
CONCLUSION
The federal government must bring to an end the wasteful funding of Official Bilingualism, and redirect those Billions of tax dollars to the under funded social programs like Health Care and Education, to National Defence, to the broken Justice System, to the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. If not, there is good likelihood that the Dominion of Canada will crumble.
END NOTES
1. The estimated costs of Official Bilingualism have been arrived at from a combination of government announced programs, Statistics Canada, and research and calculations since around 1995 by now retired Chartered Accountant, Jim S. Allan in Toronto, Ontario.
While, as Mr. Allan states, his calculations do not claim be error free, he tried to err on the lower side.
2. Interest calculations are based on StatsCan published rates, year by year, from 1974 to 2001, and from Finance Canada for 2002 to 2008. 1973 was the last year Canada had a federal surplus. The annual interest expense on our federal debt, that peaked at about $600 Billion, and is now about $500 billion, is believed to be currently around $20 Billion per year. Annual inflation rates are also included.
3. Mr. Allan has evidence, October 9, 1999, indicating the cost to Ontario for its French Language Services Act (Bill
was approximately $1.305 Billion per year. This suggests that his estimate of the 10 provinces together at 50 percent of the federal cost, is likely too low.
4. Mr. Allan uses the 20X factor for Private Sector costs from research done at the Centre for Study of American Business, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Since the US does not have Official Bilingualism, and the 20X factor is claimed there, the equivalent in Canada is likely to be much higher.
Respectfully submitted,
John M. Wood
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[email protected] What does the ROC gain from African French speakers imported into English Canada? Quebec doesn't want them it appears.
We have to teach them English for starters. Maybe the idea is that they will refuse to learn English and demand all their services be in French? Then Quebec uses those increased French numbers to demand more concessions from English Canada. Build more French ... whatever.
Thanks TRUDEAU.
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