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To: lorne who wrote (4789)	4/25/2005 11:21:54 AM
From: Stephen O	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37635

Probablement, voulez vous coucher avec moi?

To: lorne who wrote (4789)	4/26/2005 12:08:59 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37635

Lorne, "Lorne I think you read too much propaganda".. A Little too flip on my part... Sorry. re: My sister. No her bosses cannot speak to her in French. Actually English is her first language but her French is excellent. Not really native like her children. In most of Canada many jobs filled by common folks require that they be bi-lingual...gov. jobs....hospitals...etc etc. I realise that many government jobs are benefitted by knowing French.. but I can give you two examples here in Toronto which one would expect with it's large government offices and hospitals to cater to French... In the tax office at the big rush time there will usually be one person in 'forms department' that can speak French. Great for me because this line is always small :o) Sometimes they need to go looking for this French speaking person. I dunno if they may have passed some French language competency test but I can assure you the vast majority I've dealt with cannot at least in the tax office and similarly BTW in local license bureaus. My wife works at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She has a passable French, say for a tourist, certainly not nearly good enough to function in French in Quebec in her profession on a regular basis. She will practice her French occasionally with Francophone patients... There is no French requirement for her job which entails dealing with and testing patients, and communicating with government agencies, school boards and social services... No one else in here department has even a modicum of spoken French competency beyond pomme chapeau etc... If all those government CCRA employees are taking French courses and supposedly competent in French and earning more as a result... well yeah that's a boondoggle... I dunno what the rules are though.. BTW A thought just occurred to me... I hope that your last initial in NOT 'L' and that you did NOT live in Cranberry Portage Manitoba in the late 50's early 60's... Then I'd need to be especially nice to you LOL.. regards K