Path: utzoo!lsuc!sickkids!dptcdc!tmsoft!ead
From: ead@tmsoft.uucp (Elizabeth Doucette)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Canada: Minority rights
Message-ID: <1989Aug5.143527.22467@tmsoft.uucp>
Date: 5 Aug 89 14:35:27 GMT
References: <632@philmtl.philips.ca> <6723@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: ead@tmsoft.UUCP (Elizabeth Doucette)
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In article <6723@cognos.UUCP> glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee) writes:
>In article <632@philmtl.philips.ca> tremblay@philmtl.philips.ca (Michel J. Tremblay) writes:
>>One note about immigrants in Que'bec is reqired here. 
>>Immigrants in Que'bec  FREELY
>>chose to join the English speaking or the French speaking community.
>
>Is this true? The last time I checked, an immigrant can choose English only
>if his mother tongue is English (i.e. one of his parents is English speaking).
>
>Did the law get changed?
>-- 
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As Michel Tremblay has explained in a follow-up article, immigrants
can choose where they will live but their children must attend French
school (unless one of the immigrants had attended English elementary
school in Quebec).

Elizabeth