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 From: bill.g@sympatico.ca 
  
 gapope@vcn.bc.ca wrote: 
  
 > "Peter Benyk"  wrote: 
 > "B> Where did you learn your history-in a quebec school? 
 > "B> Canada was the result of the English kicking the shit out of the French 
 on 
 > "B> the PLains of Abraham. 
 > 
 > If the English so kicked the shit out of the French, why did they feel the 
 need 
 > to make so many constitutional concessions to them? 
  
 There were no concessions made to the french until 1982 (A hundred 
 and fifteen years after confederation.) and the concessions were made 
 by a frenchman to accommodate  frenchmen.  That's the only reason. 
  
 Otherwise the only official language of the federal government would 
 still be English. That PM stabbed Canada in the back. 
  
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