Agreed in re the use of our tax money, to the degree that it promotes french only .... it is the right of the parent to decide which other language, until the child is twelve or so and the whole idea of anyone telling them anything becomes moot
And clearly it is wrong to impose on BC a mandatory requirement for the civil service to be fluent in french, when half a dozen languages are more directly practical to us .... this absolutely must be resisted, it means we will be ruled from afar
Still, french is a lovely language, highly useful, and those learning it as their first latin-based tongue will find it an excellent introduction to the romance family, it takes little more work to go from french to italian, portugues, or spanish, and with those four tongues you open yourself up to about twenty per cent of the species, more in fact than speak english as first language
So added to the fact that there exists a commitment to french from the days of MacKenzie and Papineau, i think it reasonable that french enjoy some reasonable degree of support above others, even in BC .... defining 'reasonable' though, there's the trick |
