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 From: kookpatrol@invalid.org 
  
 "Bill"  wrote in message 
 news:41F1588E.71BD22EF@sympatico.ca... 
 > 
 > 
 > gapope@vcn.bc.ca wrote: 
 > 
 >> Carter  wrote: 
 >> C> > Otherwise the only official language of the federal government would 
 >> C> > still be English. That PM stabbed Canada in the back. 
 >> C> 
 >> C> What a load of unadulterated bullshit.  Get some education, learn 
 >> C> about your country so you won't look like a bigoted fool. 
 >> C> 
 >> C> Canada has had two official languages, English and French, ever 
 >> C> since it became a country. 
 >> 
 >> From our Constitution: 
 >> 
 >>   IX.--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 
 >>    133. Either the English or the French Language may be used by any 
 >>    Person in the Debates of the Houses of the Parliament of Canada and of 
 >>    the Houses of the Legislature of Quebec; and both those Languages 
 >>    shall be used in the respective Records and Journals of those Houses; 
 >>    and either of those Languages may be used by any Person or in any 
 >>    Pleading or Process in or issuing from any Court of Canada established 
 >>    under this Act, and in or from all or any of the Courts of Quebec. 
 >> 
 >>    The Acts of the Parliament of Canada and of the Legislature of Quebec 
 >>    shall be printed and published in both those Languages.(66) 
 >> 
 >> Makes sense that this would be interpreted by the courts, if/when such 
 >> was 
 >> ever a challenge, as an overall officializing of both languages in 
 >> official 
 >> matters. . . 
 > 
 > You miss the point! Article 133 did not officialize anything. It provided 
 > permission 
 > for both French and English to be used as was described in the article. 
  
 We know, you like waste your life on semantics that you twist to fill your 
 hate filled agenda 
  
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