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From: bill.g@sympatico.ca
gapope@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
> Bill wrote:
> B> You miss the point! Article 133 did not officialize anything. It
provided
> B> permission
> B> for both French and English to be used as was described in the article.
Th
> B> all. But the real point is that French was "NOT" the official language
of
> B> Canada and the proof of that is the fact that it was never used as an
offi
> B> language for 115 years after the act of 1867 came into force. The
people w
> B> wrote the act new that Canada was an English/ Anglo country being run
in t
> B> English language. The phrase "bilingual" as it applies to French and
Engli
> B> not been invented until Trudeau started tinkering with the English
linguis
> B> heritage of Canadians.
> B>
> B> French only began to be used as an official language of Canada AFTER
Pierr
> B> Trudeau brought home his version of the Constitution act in 1982.
>
> Yeah, and. . . ?
>
> Trudeau was the duly elected P.M., one among many, who had one vote,
> representing one riding, and thus the bilingualism was established under
due
> parliamentary process. . .
Shit! Now we're getting somewhere.
You finally concede that bilingualism was established by Trudeau!!!
Great! So it was Trudeau that stabbed Canada's majority in the back
by making French (his own language) an official language of Canada
and saddling all 25 million Canada's non French speaking majority
with bilingualism and a language they neither wanted or need. (for
all generations to come) Nor were they ever consulted by way of a
referenda to change the language of a nation.
> Where were you and your disputing of it back then?
I was in Germany on my third tour with the CAF in NATO doing our
best to keep the Soviets from overrunning the world.
>
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