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From: derome@ai.toronto.edu (Philippe Derome)
Subject: Re: Notwithstanding clause -- truly a sad day for Canada
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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 89 14:40:06 EST

In article <169@ecicrl.UUCP> clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:
>Everybody's going to should "that's easy for you to say!  Yours won't."
>Does that deprive me of an opinion or invalidate one?  Nope.  Especially
>since there is just as little likelyhood that the French-Canadian culture
>will disappear.  Or Canadian-Ukrainian, Canadian-Jewish or any other of 
>the rest of the hyphenated cultures that are not disappearing either, even 
>though they don't have the ability to create such laws.
>
>If Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, Chinese, Japanese etc. can keep their cultures
>alive without such laws, why can't the Quebecois?  Are they afraid that
>without being forced nobody would think the Quebecois culture was worth 
>keeping?  They only sell themselves short...
It depends what you mean by alive. By many standards the french culture
in the USA (13 000 000 citizens) is dying. How alive are the Japanese
Polish cultures in Canada. Give me a break. In reality, there are only
two truly strong cultures in this country.
>-- 
>Chris Lewis, Markham, Ontario, Canada

Philippe Derome