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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.francais
Subject: Re: Sault Sainte-Marie officiellement unilingue anglophone
Keywords: Sault Sainte-Marie Kapuskasing
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Date: 7 Feb 90 03:51:10 GMT
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It was my impression that Bill 101 allowed public education in English only
to the children of parents who received an English education in Quebec.
Most people don't view that as any sort of guarantee of protection of
English language minority rights...   (It is a sure fire way of scaring
away large english corporations who might put offices or plants in Quebec,
however)

I still would like to see what the Soo council did before we debate this
further.  Have any rights or privileges of francophones there been
reduced, and if so by how much?  And if so, is it rights, or privileges?

Or was it truly done to thumb a nose at Bill 101/178 and does it otherwise
mean nothing?  If so, it's a silly thing for a city council to do, although
one can certainly understand their motives in this case, Bill 178 being
an abomination (in my opinion) in Canadian law.
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Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473