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 From: bill.g@sympatico.ca 
  
 Carter wrote: 
  
 > Peter Benyk wrote: 
 > > Where did you learn your history-in a quebec school? 
 > > Canada was the result of the English kicking the shit out of the French 
 on 
 > > the PLains of Abraham. 
 > 
 > Really?  I always thought it was the result of an agreement 
 > reached among a group of statesmen in Charlottetown Prince Edward 
 > Island in 1847. 
 > 
 > Carter 
  
 Nothing much seems to have happened in 1847 aside from the opening of the 
 Prince 
 Edward Island's provincial legislature. You might be thinking of 
 Confederation 
 in 1867 and   the Constitution Act, 1867 which provided permission for the 
 French language to be used as follows: 
 133. Either the English or the French Language  may be used by 
  any Person in the  Debates of the  Houses or the Parliament of 
  Canada  and  of the Houses  of the Legislature  of Quebec; and 
  both these 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. 
  
 After 115 years of operating the federal government of Canada in it's lone 
 official language: English, Pierre Trudeau rewrote the constitution act in 
 1982 
 and at that time he wrote french into our constitution as an official 
 language 
 under the pretense of providing the french with a proportional share of 
 federal 
 jobs and position. 
  
 Since then the french have occupied 68% of all supervisory jobs and 
 virtually 
 all of the key positions in the Canadian government. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)