Well said Sylvain!

I am not a french speaking Canadian, hoever I firmly believe that Canada is a much better place because of our french heritage. I find it repugnant though, that a few politicians seem to feel it necessary to destroy Canada to allow the language and culture to survive.

We need the french. They need us. It is part of what makes me a Canadian.

I feel cheated by the school system when I was growing up. I took french every day for 10 years (grade 2-12) and I still have difficulty reading the cereal boxes. (The school system had the nerve to call it conversational french.) I dare say that I learned more french from friends than any school course.

Long live Quebec! (as part of Canada, that is!)

Mike

>OK, you are heretic :-) I *do* care about my language. It's part of my culture and letting it go would be a great loss for me. Without protection, how long do you suppose it would take to assimilate all french spreaking citizens? It's a matter of cultural survival for us. I agree however that the politicians go way too far on some issues.
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>To me, it's like if you were saying why is everybody on earth not white, english-speaking and American...

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>Call me a heretic but....who really cares if the French language lives or dies? It seems to me realy silly that Quebec and France have all these protectionist laws.........
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>>I suppose Charlemagne should have had Latin protectionist laws and we would have never had a French language to worry about in the first place. :-)