Shivaji

Maplesyrup, the guy wants his kid to have a French immersion education. You also seem to support bilingual education. French immersion education means that the child will receive his education in both English and French, which is a bilingual education. One year all subjects are in one language, the next year all the subjects are in the other. That's precisely what you're saying English Canadians should own up to, and that's what he's doing. And respectfully, you seem to have very good English, but not having been educated in the language does make a difference which is why French Canadians outside of Quebec have fought so hard to have French language schools available to them. If you're not educated in the language, your conversational abilities may be totally fluent, but when it comes to politics, philosophy, science, or other types of higher thinking, a person just won't have the words necessary to be able to express oneself. The man in his article is giving his child the gift of being able to do that in both official languages. There's nothing wrong with being able to do that in only one, but the advantage of being able to do it in both languages is obvious.