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You live, if I am not mistaken, in Ottawa. so tell me: - is there any municipal, provincial or federal law, by-law, policy, regulation in Ottawa that is in French only, but not in English? - is there any municipal, provincial, or federal program or service offered in French only in Ottawa, and not in English? - are there only French-language schools, French-language hospitals, French-language public institutions in Ottawa, with no equivalent English-language schools, hospitals or public institutions. To claim that a French-speaking Canadian living in Ottawa gets something from his/her governments, whether federal, provincial, or municipal, that English-speaking residents don't get, you have to be able to prove it. And since you cannot prove it, your claim of special rights, discrimination and oppression have no foundation in reality. If I ever adopt a failed culture, I will reconsider your advice. BTW, As an Ontarian, I pay the same taxes as other Ontarians. Feel free to prove me wrong by showing where on the income tax return I can claim a tax exemption based on language.

:lol: By the way, I was not talking about English-Canadian culture. I was talking YOU own PERSONAL bigoted delusions. English translation, please. You don't have a clue. Typical Leafless. Here's the legal definition of treason in our Criminal Code. I am sure you will mention the FLQ, and indeed what they did qualified as treason. But as you know very well, I do not share their objectives. And we both who is raising the possibility of a revolution (hint: it's you).

You call forced assimilation freedom. Typical leafless. You do. You keep defending, among other things, the residential school system, which was assimilation at its worse. You keep promoting assimilation. You get something right... Third time in three days, not all hope is lost. But then... Assimilation, something you claim was occuring freely before Trudeau, is the antithesis of multiculturalism. And before long you will ignore this brief moment of logic. Already forgotten YOUR call for legislation making english the sole language of business in Ontario? Unless, of course, the Frenchies "freely" assimilate. Yes. That's why i know that Canada is not one.

Yet you defend the residential school program, which was part of the government policy. Typical Leafless. Interestingly enough, those few First nations communities that are succeeding in turning away from despair are doing so because they rediscovered pride in who the are while turning to new economic activities -- not assimilating. Why, he was only (over 130 years) advocating through crude words something dear to your heart - forced assimilation.

Now "Bishop" Williamson is "willing" to "correct himself" if is "satisfied" by the evidence.(source) The evidence is there. he has refused to acknowledge it before. He'll find a way to do it again.

I would not use the word conform to describe your refusal to evolve beyond the age of the dinosaurs, but that's your choice of word... You refuse to learn to see beyond your bigoted delusions. You don't want to work your brain to adopt logic. You are out to the road side of history.

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I'll settle for equality before the law, which you don't want. So says the man who praise past GOVERNMENT policies aiming at the destruction of Canadian cultures and languages. At least I'll give it to you... you don't want a pecking order of cultures, you want only one of the Canadian cultures to exist. If those judges were decreting that there shall be no French on signs, you would not be complaining that they are unelected, so spare us the hypocrisy. Ever heard about ELECTIONS? Aboriginal children were indeed free to speak their language and practice their religion... and get beaten for it. French-speaking Canadians outside Quebec were entirely free to attend French-language schools... it's just the schools that were outlawed. Actually, does not sound like freedom to me. Sounds like trying to make everyone be the same, something Communist regimes were very good at trying.

So let me check if I get that one straight. Children were beaten for speaking their language in the courtyard, while actual attempts at promoting literacy in either English or French were limited by the lack of resources and the lack of qualified teachers. Many schools didn't even have textbooks and most schools were so short on money that most of the "school day" was taken not by teaching but by manual labour. Yet, the children are to blame for not learning what was not taught them. The children were taken by force or threat from their parents, brought hundreds of miles away, taught through mental and physical abuse that everything their parents had taught them was evil. Yet, their parents are to blame for what... not beating their children into becoming second class Whites themselves? Actually, I believe the guy was a conservative. I am surprised though that you would think he was a Liberal... why, he didn't go far enough? Less we forget that those who are at a receiving end of a deliberate policy of taking away their dignity and identity should just co-operate with it, and that they are the ones to be blamed when it does not go quite as intended. In a report written in 1908 but only published in 1922, Indian Department Health Inspector Peter Bryce concluded that between 35% and 60% of the children forced into residential schools were dying within five years. They wouldn't have been much worse if left alone.

And the Charter applies to all Canadians today. You will never get it. Translation from Leafless-ish into English, please. I should have known that the "French language is part of Canadian culture" brief moment of lucidity would not last. Back to the old Leafless' "you have the same rights as me, that's discrimination" non-sense.

And the residential schools were an abject failure it that regard. The residential schools were desgined "kill the Indian in the child", to use the word of a former Minister of Indian Affairs. It was thought that that would make Aboriginal children into nice little white kids. It didn't work. The legacy was 3-4 generations of men and women with no culture and no identify, white or Aboriginal. That makes you proud. Says a lot about how clueless you are.

You don't get it one bit. For once, we agree on one thing.

I for one have stopped long ago giving anything more than a cursory glance at whatever you write, no matter the topic,

You tell us. After all, you claim that it is a growing phenomenum. You certainly have date or studies to prove it.

So the idea of rights was good only as long as it applied to certain persons. Can't having it apply to all, right? Now, let's go back to five of your words: You have now admitted the fact that Canada has two languages, English and French (until you deny it, of course). Looks to me that your crussade to have French disappear from public services and commercial signage is an attack on Canadian identity.

You mean the way you choose not to adapt to common sense? The residential school sytem was specifically designed to break the children's Aboriginal identity. When it failed at making the kids into nice little white children, they were basically dumped there. Rejected by white society because they were Indians, and foreigners to the Native socities of their birth. They chose that indeed.

You can quote the Koran on that?

Start by rebelling against Holocaust deniers, instead of repeating their LIES.

Actually, the scientific jury is still out on whether people are born homosexuals or become so Not that it make homosexual acts less sinful, or that the response to that question has anything to do with the obligation to treat gays and lesbians with the dignity due to them as human beings. I already knew it, and the one on abortion too. Shall I now quote you the Bible on loving thy neighbours and on telling the truth, two things you are joyfully ignoring whenever they stand in the way of your prejudice. The Church acknowledges the reality of the Holocaust. Those who, like you, engage in the denial of the Holocaust are engaging in a grave lie, and deny the Truth. That, combined with the anti-semitism evident in opinions like "the Jews and Muslims might as well kill each others, at least this will result in more conversions" constitutes a form of ignorance and hatred that is, IMO, a worse sin that thinking gay marriages should be recognized by the State. If I call you a Catholic, I'll call them Cathoolics too.

Nope. Just trying to show the hypocrisy of your "follow everything the Church says, unless it stands in the way of prejudice and ignorance" position.

I know some liberal Catholics, I know some Conservative Catholics. Some of the Liberal ones may favour recognition of homosexual marriages or free choice on abortion. I've not met a single one yet who wants sodomy in the pews (eeven though there are a few bishops and cardinals who have helped priests who did such things go unpunished). And I most certainly never met anyone who suggested that aobrtions should be performed in church buildings. Lying by exaggeration... Typical Mr. C.

Including truths acknowledged by the Church?

Some people, when criticized for being wrong, start being right. You, on the other hand, kep being more and more in the wrong.