Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!edhew
From: edhew@xenitec.uucp (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Canada: one, two (or many) cultures?
Message-ID: <1989Jul27.092203.16418@xenitec.uucp>
Date: 27 Jul 89 09:22:03 GMT
References: <3190@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew)
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In article <3190@uwovax.uwo.ca> GERARD@uwovax.uwo.ca (Gerard Stafleu) writes:
>
>Canada is not doing too bad.  This is probably because French is located 
>in the main in Quebec.  Troubles only arise when you try to mix 
>languages.  When we stop trying that, many troubles will go away.  
>Switzerland shows that one country can very well have several languages. 
>If you don't try to force mixing them.

Comment:

I really don't remember all this nonsense when I was growing up in
the 50's and 60's, back when no one was advocating a completely
bi-lingual (French and English) Canada, and a totally French-only
Quebec.

Did I miss something as a kid?

		--ed		{edhew@xenitec.uucp}
				{edhew@egvideo.uucp until new maps hit}