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 From: kookpatrol@invalid.org 
  
 "Bill"  wrote in message 
 news:41EEC949.CB708FC4@sympatico.ca... 
 > 
 > 
 > Carter wrote: 
 > 
 >> Bill wrote: 
 >> > 
 >> > 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. 
 >> 
 >> What a load of unadulterated bullshit.  Get some education, learn 
 >> about your country so you won't look like a bigoted fool. 
 >> 
 >> Canada has had two official languages, English and French, ever 
 >> since it became a country. 
 >> 
 >> Carter 
 > 
 > Grow up and stop trying to shit the troops. 
 > French was never an official language of Canada! 
 > 
 > The Federal government always worked in English because 
 > this is an English country. 
  
 You're an idiot. It's a bilingual country, get over it. 
  
 > 
 > Why do you suppose the French always used the fact that 
 > the Army was English as an excuse not to have to fight for Canada? 
 > That's the reason for the french only providing one sixth, per capita, 
 > of the number of troops that the rest of Canada provided in the 1st 
 > great war? (5% of the total troops) 
  
 You're an idiot. Have you ever bothered to look up what percentage of 
 officers in the CAF are Quebecois? 
 > 
 > You want to learn a little of Canada's history.  You've been listening 
 > to much to the Quebecois. 
  
 You sound like a klansman explaning blacks as mud people 
 > 
  
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