Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!edhew
From: edhew@xenitec.uucp (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Canada: Minority rights
Message-ID: <1989Aug6.084641.8342@xenitec.uucp>
Date: 6 Aug 89 08:46:41 GMT
References: <632@philmtl.philips.ca> <1599@hcr.UUCP> <1989Aug4.121135.22746@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew)
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In article <1989Aug4.121135.22746@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>jimr@hcr.UUCP (Jim Robinson) writes:
>>(I also understand that school children were/are being punished for speaking
>>minority languages during breaks - is this true?)
>
>Don't be ridiculous.  Does it sound true?  You can't believe everything you
>hear.

It *does* sound ridiculous, but I recall hearing it on the media
a while back myself.  Whatever one's opinion of the major video/audio/
print media may be, it's unlikely that they invent (read: falsify) news
articles just to boost their circulation.  We're not talking about the
(U.S.) National Enquirer here.  The media in Canada is quick to pick up
on extremes when they exist.

Getting back to the original topic:  "Is it correct that such extremes
should exist in Canada?"

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