Mighty AC Posted July 4, 2015 Report Posted July 4, 2015 Saves money by driving business out with their language police? Quote "Our lives begin to end the day we stay silent about the things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire
Second-class Canadian Posted July 4, 2015 Report Posted July 4, 2015 (edited) Why should someone whose parents speak Mandarin be forced to learn English and/or French?We still need to learn a common language to communicate. At least in Quebec he needs to learn only French to work for the Provincial Goverment, same for English in Ontario for the most part. Federally though he then has both imposed on him. So to put people on a relatively more equal footing, why not join Quebec in requesting that Federal institutions operate monolingually according the the local language. Edited July 4, 2015 by Second-class Canadian Quote
Second-class Canadian Posted July 4, 2015 Report Posted July 4, 2015 Saves money by driving business out with their language police? I should have clarified. While I support the principle of an official language of government administration, I limit it to that. Quebec's Bill 101 goes way too far and is way too intrusive. The private sector should be free to operate in the language of its choice. Quote
Second-class Canadian Posted July 4, 2015 Report Posted July 4, 2015 I'd even remove language requirements from the packaging and labelling act so as to increase consumer choice and pressure on producers to lower prices, improve quality, or specialize. Quote
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