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From: gilles@alberta.UUCP (Gilles Simon Dionne)
Newsgroups: can.politics,can.francais
Subject: Re: Bourassa and bill 101?
Message-ID: <561@cavell.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 21:30:38 GMT
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Reply-To: gilles@cavell.UUCP (Gilles Simon Dionne)
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In article <230@electro.UUCP> ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) writes:
>in noting that Bourassa is using the not withstanding clause and planning to
>continue to enforce the french only sign law for outside, with a predominance
>of french inside, it leads me to wonder - is the french culture so fragile
>that signs must be forced to be french. Bourassa says on Canada AM this morning
>that this would allow an immigrant to quebec to realize that its a french
>culture that resides in this province. but i can't understand how forcing a 
>restaurant or a stereo shop to have a french only sign is promoting that 
>culture or even furthering the french cause throughout canada. if anything,
>this is gonna turn people off of french more than ever.
>
>just getting ready for the poly-sci exam i got this afternoon  :-)
>
>
>-- 
>Ignac A. Kolenko                   "Squeeze my lemon, let the juice run
>watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac        down my leg!" - Led Zep (Lemon Song)
>"Ask me no further questions, I WILL NOT answer!!" - Spock (ST:TOS Amok Time)

   - It promotes the culture by directly exposing people to the language
   - I don't think Bourassa is trying to further the cause of french
     throughout Canada at all, he probably understands that each time
     Quebec deals in a way which is perceived to be unfavorable by the
     english minority in Quebec, he actually gives further ammunition to the
     premiers of the other provinces to deal unfavorably with their own
     minorities. 
   - I don't understand why you say that this will turn people off french.
     As has been the case since Bill 101, people will have to have some
     rudimentary french to understand what the signs are saying. If english
     signs became commonplace again, you would just be sending the message
     to the english community that french isn't necessary anymore( at least
     as far as understanding signs is concerned).


                                   Gilles