tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post5730400443837019817..comments2024-03-28T16:15:19.319-04:00Comments on Saideman's Semi-Spew: Incoming! Quebec Language Education Reform Due SoonSteve Saidemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-1035040519826396892010-05-14T13:20:26.611-04:002010-05-14T13:20:26.611-04:00"The compromise being floated", as Mr. S..."The compromise being floated", as Mr. Saideman writes, is one I have only seen in a Gazette editorial from the other day; if it comes from someone else, I don't know who has floated it around. But it's a most curious one on the part of the Gazette: immediately concede the demand for full freedom of choice -- which a majority of francophones polled want -- and, with hat in hand, meekly request a pittance. Don't stand up for francophones' rights to better the lives of their own children as they see fit but, instead, only lighten restrictions on access by eliminating Bill 104 -- which the Supreme Court has said must occur anyway -- and allow only British and American English-speakers to attend English schools. And to hell with Jamaicans, the Caribbean, and the rest of the English-speaking world.<br /> <br />Note that this is a step backwards from the Gazette's decades long stance that all immigrants from all English speaking countries have access to English schools.<br /> <br />On the heels of what is arguably the most significant poll ever conducted on language since the adoption of Bill 101 33 years ago, the Gazette gives with one hand as it quickly takes away with the other. Taking its cue from the Seinfeld episode in which George negotiates an offer for a pilot he and Jerry have written for NBC from $13,000 down to $8,000, the Gazette Editorial Board holds out for less not more. As Jerry told George: "This is how they negotiate in the bizarro world."<br /><br />Mr. Saideman says he forgets "how it currently works for kids whose parents are one of each--one Anglophone and one Francophone."<br /><br />Actually, the procedure for determining your righs in this matter, Mr. Saideman, has nothing to do with what language either parent speaks. The determination of which civil rights category you belong to depends upon who your parents are and what their classification is.<br /><br />See:<br /><br />http://whycanadamustend.com/Chapter%202.htm<br /><br />and<br /><br />http://whycanadamustend.com/Chapter%205.htmTony Kondakshttp://www.whycanadamustend.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-87520483812216779192010-05-11T10:13:26.480-04:002010-05-11T10:13:26.480-04:00Damn immigrants and their languages. How does it ...Damn immigrants and their languages. How does it feel to be the Mexicans of Canada?Brandon Valerianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12921918750617372556noreply@blogger.com