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Frustrated in Gatineau December 14, 2004 Hi! Just thought I'd introduce myself, I'm an Anglo living in Gatineau/Quebec (formally known as Hull) which is right across the river from Ottawa. I'm an "bilingual" Anglo living in the belle province. I've lived in Quebec my whole life and work for the federal government. My French colleagues believe I am bilingual enough, government tests disagree. I've hit the glass ceiling at work as far as career advancement goes, I'm currently in an acting position AS-02 level, this position goes up for competition in the new year, which I will be tested again in French, I will fail again. Since its bilingual imperative I will then have to return to my CR-04 job and that's it, no more moving up. I told my manager no more French courses I've had enough. I resent it first of all, second of all its ridiculous to say we are a bilingual country, we clearly are not and never will be. I looked at the internal job postings lately for Ottawa I can't even work in some mailrooms now because I'm not fluent in a minority language. I am looking for alternate employment at the moment and looking West. Which brings me to you guys! Its really good to see that not all Canadians are apathetic when it comes to being active when it comes to caring about our country. Its really exciting to see a movement like this happening. I always believed if anyone separates from Canada the West would be the first. Our current government is not a democracy it claims to be, its a social dictatorship, run by interest groups and the elite who make decisions for us concerning serious issued that should be left for all Canadians to decide via referendums, such as.... Marijuana, Bilingualism, Gay marriage, and being able to separate from Quebec.... cut them loose I say. I believe if the West would form its own republic of Canada, you'd see a massive exodus from the east, myself included. I haven't gone through all of the posts yet but I'm curious as to how "serious" western Canadians are regarding this issue of a Republic. After the last federal election I've became really disillusioned after everything the liberals had done I thought for sure Harper would win, and was hoping for it. But of course Ontario let us down. P.S. And Ontario let us down again today by introducing a bill that will make the City of Ottawa , officially bilingual. Only 2% of the population of Ottawa can only speak French. and that's children under the age of 5 and seniors over the age of 65....common sense gone right out the window. McGuinty says its only symbolic I don't know which planet he's on, but the policy is this to make management positions bilingual mandatory within a couple of years. Steven, Frustrated in Gatineau ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Change Policy on Bilingualism Toronto Star Editorial, May 29/04 Canada should consider changing its policy on official bilingualism from requiring coast-to-coast "English and French" to "English or French." The costs to business and government of complying with the current policy are large and of questionable value. Scott Reid (the Ottawa-area MP) should not have to resign his portfolio as the Conservative party critic for official languages. He should be commended for thinking creatively and having political courage, both of which Canada's politicians lack in a big way. Changing the bilingualism policy would reduce many unproductive costs the current policy places on business and government. These costs hurt our global competitiveness, Let the local area and market decide the language preference. Designing, translating and producing bilingual packaging for consumer products is expensive. How many consumers read both the English and French labels? It's a pain for everyone. Unilingual packaging would be clearer. Consumers would read labels faster. Unilingual packaging would reduce costs and increase sales. The cost savings could be passed on to consumers. There is a myriad of printed documents, signs and labels in every government office across the country. The government spends a lot of money on labor, fuel, real estate, gas, electricity, insurance and security to write, translate, ship, display and store this growing mountain of bilingual documents. Writing the documents in either language, but not both, and translating them on demand, would reduce the government's costs for document production and management. Not requiring government and corporate employees to be bilingual would increase workplace competence and improve decision-making. Then, the government or a company could hire the candidates who were most qualified but didn't speak both languages. Changing the language policy from "and" to "or" would still provide equality of status, rights and access to government for English and French Canadians. But the main reason to reconsider official bilingualism is that it would show that Canada's politicians can think creatively. Canada has been hamstrung by decades of narrow political group-thinking. These weaknesses in thinking are the roots of our lack of innovation, widening productivity gap and falling standard of living compared to other nations. Canada should reconsider its official bilingualism policy and many other so-called "sacred" tenets, many related to health care, education and justice. Much of their historical basis is long gone and their usefulness is now questionable. Sadly, most Canadian politicians (except for Reid) have neither the brains nor the will to do either. Blair Kingsland, Richmond Hill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Act Doesn't
Treat Everyone Fairly Toronto Star Editorial, May 29/04 In your editorial you state "the Official Languages Act is a national act of good faith..." This may be so for the French-speaking Canadian who has "passable English" but unfortunately, it does not apply for a Canadian in the reverse position. Back in 1986, I was a senior financial executive of a major multi-division manufacturing Canadian company when I lost my job due to a hostile takeover of our American parent. Through a national recruiting company, I was selected, based on my qualifications, for interviews for the position of Chief Financial Officer of both Via Rail and the Royal Mint. Before I had a chance to be interviewed, I was turned down by both organizations due to government regulations because I was not fluent in French. Thus, this "act of good faith" does not treat all Canadians fairly when it involves senior positions in government and crown corporations. T.R. (Dick) Hornby, Brockville, Ont. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May 10, 2004 To any Canadian who truly cares: I read a front page article in our local daily paper with the heading, "We Got Screwed" says Ousted Candidate". In this article, a disenchanted Liberal says he was screwed out of a chance to run in the next election by Paul Martin, as grumbling over the Prime Minister's recent practice of appointing "hand-picked candidates without a nomination contest." I find the irony of this claim both alarming and humorous at the same time. Paul Martin, to my knowledge, has never had to face the Canadian electorate as the candidate for the position of Prime Minister. We of course know that, as Canadians, we never get the right to vote for who will be the Prime Minister of Canada unless we are one of the electors living in the constituency where the leader of the political party with the largest majority is a candidate for Member of Parliament. For your information, Paul Martin was elected as an MP for La-Salle-Ermard by thirty-two thousand voters which represents less than one-quarter of one percent of the total voters in the last federal election. He has filled one of the most powerful cabinet positions in the last decade so maybe he believes he has the right to choose candidates in his own political party. He may have done more that anyone can imagine for the movement for a free and independent Western Canada where we could have the opportunity and the right to vote for the leader of our choice. Ken Kellington ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May 26th, 2004 Re: French Nationalist Conspiracy Paper Good article. Pankiw spoke out and was thrown out of his party for doing so. The new policy is so outrageous that a Francophone is encouraged not to marry a non-francophone outside of Quebec. It demands that every meeting use both languages. Quebec Francophones have practiced ethnic cleansing so that their civil service is 99.9% Francophone. In this way they use their Firewall to very many federal programs while demanding the overall Francophone proportion in the remaining program. In that way they increase the overall Francophone proportion in programs to over 40%. The cleansing in Quebec City of Anglos going from about 40% years ago to 2% today. Montreal from over 50% to about 25%. Keep up the good work, demand participation as shown in the Official Languages Act. Marvin Jason May 26th, 2004 Hi to Marvin, A great rant and history lesson! Unfortunately it is old news. We are all well aware of the atrocities of the French National coercion. Marvin, it seems that in frustration there are at least 10 separatist, Independence, Annexation-(whatever )-( Unity ) Alberta, republic, Ontario republic parties existing in our country! They have been active for years from Doug Christie, BC Separatist East. Each with their own ideas and agenda. All are doing the same thing, ranting and giving history lessons. The results? Nothing! The one thing in common is that they are angry, but venting anger and frustration is like butting your head into a French Brick wall. As I see it Marvin your "Firewall", cannot work. Why? It is too late! The French dictatorship have total control of it all! Who would you appeal to? Ralph Kline or some MP that you know is now totally helpless? The Provinces have been rendered dependent upon Quebec and Ottawa for their social programs, infrastructure, jobs and economy! The Republicans state that the Parliamentary system is the most flawed system on earth. The French Nationalists love you. You are playing into their plan.....divide and conquer! It is designed so that you and all the dissident movements individually have no power! They laugh at each and every one of the independent unilateral cells. Jumping up and down now to undo what is done only wastes time. We in the West are all stupid Anglos who sat on our butts while they took our country away from us! This is a CRISIS! The only answer is to fight Fire with Fire! The only hope of the West is to Unite, Unite under the program laid out by the Republican movement. It offers the last chance to fight them and offers the complete form of government for a new successful country to be born in the West, ALL the West! I commend all the afore mentioned leaders for their valiant efforts! All of you are the backbone of an uprising to bring an end to this dreadful Mess! All of you are well informed and motivated, but have no common plan. I urge you to join with the Republicans, it is our only hope! It is only a united People movement that can cause permanent change! The Americans did it, so can we! Ken Wallace, Author, Republic of Canada My phone is 1-604-652-9867 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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