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From: louis@auvax.UUCP (Louis Schmittroth)
Newsgroups: can.politics,can.francais
Subject: Re: Bourassa and bill 101?
Summary: FASCISTS
Message-ID: <813@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 00:25:09 GMT
References: <1988Dec13.133220.28851@lsuc.uucp> <4321@hcr.UUCP> <809@auvax.UUCP> <230@electro.UUCP>
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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

I'll jump into this with a flame, and I do have the asbestos suit on.
In Malaysia, which is 60% Malay, 30% Chinese, and 10% Indian etc., there
is a real movement to protect, or even enhance the use of Malay as the
national language, and the Malays are racist, but even there, signs are
permitted to be in Malay, English, Chinese, or Hindi, and there seemed
to be a feeling that the consumer should judge, and spend his/her money
where he/she liked the signs.

The Quebecois are a bunch of infantile racist fascists, at least on this
business of signs.

Bah, they should have separated.

Flames welcomed.
-- 

Louis Schmittroth, Computer Science, Athabasca University
auvax!louis