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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: teevee who wrote (4618)	3/28/2005 12:40:15 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37811

Yeah, that's quite a thing, isn't it ... hardly the state's business to dictate language to the individual ... we can't imagine ourselves submitting to such outrage, it's because we don't know the culture I have family out there, some of the older ones feel the same as us, think it's ridiculous ... the younger ones though, who were born there and have grown up quebecois, find it quite natural, and when you object, they can cite you multiple instances from the time when it was the other way round, and english speakers did what they could to suppress the french ... want to get a lengthy detailed alternate view of Lord Durham? - ask a fourteen year old quebecois ... i did, and was sorry after about the first hour and a half -g- ..... they do say they think such a ban on english is not permanent, only until the french is no longer 'threatened' .... and they do have a fair bit of sensitivity to human rights on the question, many will late in the conversation tell you they are opposed to the ban, but it's clear they will take absolutely no instruction on the matter from proponents of english