Francophone judge beats down 'Language Fairness'

[Leafless]

'Language Fairness' a non-profit organization lost it's battle against Ottawa's bilingual policy.

http://www.languagefairness.ca/

Regional Senior Justice Monique Metivier has dismissed the legal challenge brought by Canadians for Language Fairness.

The decision found that the city's bilingual bylaw and policy are valid and constitutional.

IMO this is a horrible undemocratic decision against the majority English speaking residents of Ottawa, Ontario.

This bilingual policy in Ottawa has resulted in almost the same degree of 'official bilingualism' has the federal version of it's discriminatory 'official bilingualism policy'.

Not only is Ottawa NOT 'officially bilingual' the province of Ontario is NOT 'officially bilingual'. The citizen's of both the city of Ottawa and the province of Ontario have been dealt with in an unconstitutional manner that does not reflect the provincial rights of the citizen's of Ontario that have the legal right to decide on the language of their CHOICE.

In fact tax paying residents of Ontario have the legal right to make English the official language of Ontario but were NOT given the opportunity to do that, in order to protect majority English access to jobs in that province as well as to protect English employees with municipal employment.

This is absolutely shameful and the federal government should hang it's head in shame as to not prevent this unconstitutional manoevre especially when Quebec is the leader in linguistic oppression and discrimination.

http://www.ottawasun.com/News/OttawaAndReg...956101-sun.html

[Charles Anthony]

The citizen's of both the city of Ottawa and the province of Ontario have been dealt with in an unconstitutional manner that does not reflect the provincial rights of the citizen's of Ontario that have the legal right to decide on the language of their CHOICE.

Does this policy stop you from speaking English or does it stop your from speaking French?

in order to protect majority English access to jobs in that province as well as to protect English employees with municipal employment.

I think therein lies the source of all Canadian language issues: this natural reflex of looking to the government to be the creator of jobs. Everybody wants to be an employee of the government.

If ever Canadians were to shake off their civil-servant-goal-in-life mentality, language issues would de facto be solved.

This is absolutely shameful and the federal government should hang it's head in shame as to not prevent this unconstitutional manoevre especially when Quebec is the leader in linguistic oppression and discrimination.

Toss in a shot at Quebec, for good measure, regardless of the relevance.

[Leafless]

Does this policy stop you from speaking English or does it stop your from speaking French?

No, this policy does not stop you from speaking English or French.

What this policy does is demands and forces the majority of unilingual English speaking tax paying residents of Ottawa to become bilingual in order to gain employment in most part, all levels of government and in most PRIVATE industry in Ottawa.

Bilingualism in Ottawa has been encouraged with UNJUST and discriminatory federal initiatives (since it's out of federal jurisdiction) promoting federal style 'official bilingualism' it has jurisdiction under in it's federal entities but not provincial.

This is a direct conflict of interest on the federal part as well as federal patronizing on the part of the mayor of Ottawa who supports federal Liberals and the Liberal premier of Ontario pertaining to a Ottawa's bilingualism policy.

It's hard to acknowledge or understand that governments allow Ontario's French Langage Services Act to flourish under the UNBELIEVABLE conditons concerning NO ENGLISH or BILINGUALISM LANGUAGE POLICIES whatsoever or ANYWHERE in Quebec.