Insidious Forced Bilingualism Destroying Canada

I am sure the preponderance of Canadians care about Canada. However, given that the main means of our understanding of what Canadians are supposed to think and believe has been primarily in the hands of a very biased Liberal-compliant mass media, particularly the government financed the Canadian Broadcasting Commission (CBC) it has been impossible not be in constant conflict between ourselves and our governments.

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Many Canadians have had to spend years struggling to have our governments uphold our fundamental freedoms. On occasion we win a battle but mostly we lose. Why? This pundit believes the answer is that our governments have changed from being our elected representatives governing in our best interests into a never ending sequence of arrogant ego-powered manipulators who believe it is their duty to impose politically correct behaviour, revisionist history, unwanted language laws and ever-increasing restrictions on the freedoms of every one of us. How do they get away with this ongoing breach of their essential duty to uphold our freedoms and the fundamental principles underlying our laws? Just ask one simple question of your federal or provincial representative. Ask your MP, MLA or MPP of any stripe why he or she would impose a particular unwanted new law upon the public when it has never been sought by strong public demand, or allow any court to do so. Here is his inevitable answer; “Well I guess, we haven’t explained our new law (program or regulation) well enough, let me try again!” They are rarely interested in any initiative other than that of their Party. That is why Prime Minister’s Tudeau and Pearson’s multiple visions for Canada, jammed down our throats by slick salesmen appointees have since turned into an ugly set of nightmarish failures. Nobody asked for their visions, many objected strenuously but they forced their plans and laws upon us through personal arrogance and abuse of the power of the Prime Minister’s Office. Although the Liberals are out of power at the moment, they exercise great influence on public perceptions through their liberal and socialistic mass media pals, especially the CBC. Even the Conservatives who have attempted to govern rather than rule, quickly become infected with the “Ottawa disease” and slowly transform into a Liberal alter ego. As the saying goes; “Liberals, Tory same old story.” Unless this scenario changes, Canada will continue to self destruct. I acknowledge Harper’s government is trying to change the game by building back Canadian pride in their own culture and history from the days of the Conquest (1763) forward but to stay in government and placate the Quebecoise they have to twist themselves pretzel-like into the Red Tory mould.

Forced Bilingualism

Ask any English-speaking civil service member of the federal government about what is taking place in Ottawa and he/she will tell you that no unilingual Canadian can even apply for a job or be promoted unless they are fluently bilingual. Their stories of English speakers being bypassed and excluded from senior positions is heart breaking and outrageous. The civil service in Ottawa is now predominantly run by Francophones of French Canadian background although they represent less than 23% of all Canadians. The continuously updated Official Languages Act and regulations are now applied so stricly that even in Vancouver, where less than 1% speak French as a first language, no English-speaking person that is not fully bilingual can apply for or be hired by the federal government (or Crown Corporation). English speaking parents across Canada now clamour for their kids to gain entry to French immersion schools or classes, knowing that there is no political, government or military future for them unless they become French proficient. This is now a fact of life all across Canada even when studies show that most of these students will drop out before becoming bilingual enough to meet federal requirements.

The New Mandarin Class of Canadians

What is happening in our country is that a new privileged class of citizens is being developed that would have been known in ancient China as the “Mandarin Class.” These were young men chosen from the most gifted youth in China and highly trained as government civil servants to run the country, subject only to their Emperor’s rule. The difference in Canada is that this new class of Canadian Mandarins will be mostly chosen from Francophones who have had the accidental good fortune of growing up in a family that spoke French and/or English at home or learned English by living in close proximity to a majority of English speakers. The few Canadians that do learn French and English through personal effort are those who either truly love learning another language or are fortunate enough to have an occupation where it is convenient and profitable to learn the other language. The reality is that in spite of all the emphasis on forcing the elitist’s dream of a bilingual Canada upon a far-flung primarily English speaking population over last 40 years has been that that only a miserable 17% of Canadians are currently functionally bilingual. As to the new Canadian Mandarin class being the most gifted or intelligent, the language requirement excludes 83% of the population of Canada from the selection process. That means the chances are that a mere 17% of our new Mandarin class will be the best civil servants we could have otherwise hired. Unfortunately, the message and focus of our present policy of forced bilingualism also means that 83% of us will never again be considered “real” Canadians able to fully participate in all the affairs of our own country. All this misguided foolishness is a recipe for increasing anger, divisiveness and eventual hatred. Examples of such dire consequences exist all around the world. It is too often that class warfare, religious warfare and tribal warfare erupt because of the unfair acquisition of power by “preferred” groups and the exclusion of “lesser groups” from full social and economic participation. Language has always been a cause of hatred when it is a determinant of who gets what privilege in any society on earth. Canada is not in some mystical way immune from age-old hatreds caused by forced language arrogance. Furthermore, no government suppressive device such as our human rights tribunals or assinine hate laws can suppress the hatreds now evolving.

Prime Minister Harper plays this Dangerous Linguistic Game

When our Prime Minister couldn’t speak French fluently, he stated that Official Bilingualism was a failed policy and ought to be repealed. However, after his laudable effort of learning to speak acceptable French as a help in doing his job, he now runs around like Aesop’s fabled fox that lost his tail in a trap telling all the other foxes it is the fashion to have no tail and that every real fox should cut its tail off. He blindly makes it a point to insult English-speaking voters by exposing his tailless rump and speaking French first even when there are no French speakers in sight and 95% of his audience can’t understand a word. Please don’t misunderstand me; I don’t hate the French language. I used to love speaking French when I had a chance to practice it but now I tend to throw things at the TV screen when Harper or other MPs speak unnecessarily in French. Also, please don’t get me wrong, I like PM Harper but I know hundreds of people who feel exactly as I do and when Canadians generally wise up to the disastrous facts of forced bilingualism and their own assignment to second class status as unilingual citizens, their anger will also grow exponentially. It is a dangerous game being played indeed.

Why the Trans-Canada Bilingualism Nightmare?

There is only one possible reason that Harper and all the other Party leaders play with this linguistic time bomb. Quite simply it is to acquire and retain Quebecoise votes. They know Quebec will not leave Canada so long as it can jerk Canada around for excessive benefits with their never ending threats of separation. So our leaders have forced us to sacrifice our freedoms and the right to participate fully in Canada’s essential political, economic and military life in aid of a false dream. How incongruous when the Quebecoise by and large have never supported Canada in any way and have legislated against English-speakers in Quebec in such insulting ways that they have been condemned by the United Nations and over 500,000 people have left and continue to flee la Belle Province.

Remove the Quebec Albatross and the claws of forced Bilingualism from our necks!

What our Quebec focused political leaders never seem to understand is that they will not retain the trust of our citizens or encourage the fair play that national harmony requires so long as they continue to feed the Quebecoise Albatross. This long dead mythical bird was hung there by our Confederation father’s vision of a brave new Canada that included a Quebec willing to play its part. It never has and apparently never will. Our present leaders need to stop trying to feed that long dead bird and bury it. Perhaps then we can all progress in the best interest of all Canadians.

The future of the French and English languages in Canada and the World

It is a good thing to learn other languages but English and French language use in Canada must flow free of government interference and over time freely throughout the World when all languages will survive, spread or supplant other languages depending on their usefulness and practicality. The forcing of language, religion or political systems in today’s open electronic world of change by individual choice is not only a fool’s game but a deadly recipe for national or international disaster.