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From: derome@ai.toronto.edu (Philippe Derome)
Newsgroups: can.francais,can.politics
Subject: Re: Bourassa and bill 101?
Message-ID: <88Dec21.094340est.38036@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 88 14:43:25 GMT
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In article <815@auvax.UUCP> tech@auvax.UUCP (Richard Loken) writes:
>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.
I am probably what you'd call a fanatic from Quebec; all the assertions
you just made were known to me or did not surprise (I've never been to
Edmonton so I could not swear that there were no unilingual foreign
signs, but it does not surprise me). I believe that most Quebeckers are
well aware of the situation outside Quebec, and yes we do look across
the border pretty often. If you disagree with the current language
politics in Quebec, I respect your opinion although I disagree with it,
but please be careful before making unsound accusation in suggesting
we are ignorant about the language realities outside Quebec. 

Philippe Derome
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