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From: tech@auvax.UUCP (Richard Loken)
Newsgroups: can.politics,can.francais
Subject: Re: Bourassa and bill 101?
Message-ID: <815@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 17:37:56 GMT
References: <813@auvax.UUCP>
Distribution: can
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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From article <813@auvax.UUCP>, by louis@auvax.UUCP (Louis Schmittroth):
> In article <230@electro.UUCP>, ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) writes:
> 
> The Quebecois are a bunch of infantile racist fascists, at least on this
> business of signs.
> 
I can't really argue but I would have chosen my language more carefully.

The fanatics in Quebec like to parrot the line about there not being non 
English signs in English Canada but it just ain't so babe.  In any large
city you will find no English shop signs, in Edmonton I have seen stores with
signs only in Chineese, Italian, and odd as it may seem in French.  The
Quebecois don't know this, they never look beyond their own border - not even
to France where 80% of the radio programming is in English according to a
French (not Quebecois) musician I recently heard interviewed.

While I am ranting, I also have the impression that the Quebecois are none too
tolerant of English speaking Canadians butchering their language but typically
English speaking Canadians don't mind English being spindled a bit by the likes
of Jean Cretian (spelling?) and Jean Drapeau and John Crosbey.

This country may be becoming more tolerant but its all on one side.

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