On May 22, the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, launched, in Moncton New Brunswick, the first in a series of Government of Canada pan-Canadian consultations on official languages.
Remarkable! P. M. Harper and Mr. Moore may
look to be singing from the same page but here's a portion of Harper's speech at last year's Journée de la Francophonie that reveals the truth of the matter; "In Canada, the
French language represents far more than a means of communication. Spoken by more than 9.5 million Canadians,
French is an integral part of our history, our identity and our daily lives. It links us, not only to our fellow Canadians but to French-speaking countries around the world."
Mr. Harper makes no mention of the English language - Canada's predominant majority language. But also note the same exaggerated statement that "French is part of our English-speaking history and identity?" Which English-speaking Canadian history and identity does Mr. Harper dream are linked by the French language? He must be referring to the less than 1% of turncoats like himself and Moore and all the other arrogant, self-inflated history revisionists and egoistic elites that imagine they can run rough shod over their supporters without penalty.
Mr. Moore is the more deceptive because he implies that the "consultation" is in regard to the
two official languages which is nonsense. It is exclusively more of the same forced French-only propaganda. The fact is that 9 out of every 10 dollars spent has and will flow to French communities; the other miserable dollar will go to the support of translation and French services.
Nothing will go to enhance, defend or support Official English-the language of 77% of all Canadians. This Roadmap, designed and supported by the Liberal and Red Tory establishment was created solely to supplant the English language and deny English-speaking Canadians from any say, job or career in their own governments, Federal and Provincial or even full participation in the military or other government funded institutions. .
Prime Minister Harper's Freudian slip clarifies for all that the Conservative Party of Canada (our former Party) will continue to follow the original Trudeau-Liberal plan to promote French only and eventually ethnically and linguistically reconquer Canada for the Quebecois and whatever economic pay-off these elites may receive from their pro-French backers, domestic or international.
This consultation is a total fraud, designed to consult solely with French Canadians. This article's title is accurate. The invitation is
not open to all Canadians to express their opinions on the continued funding of Canada's "Roadmap for Linguistic Duality 2008-2013." Any English-speaking submissions critical of the Roadmap will go straight to the incinerator.
The Bernard Lord Report
In 2007-8, the ex-Premier of New Brunswick, Bernard Lord was commissioned to do a similar consultation to obtain the views of Canadians and submit a report in respect to Official Bilingualism. Every organization he consulted had a favourable view because of the
160 groups he consulted 126 were Francophone community organizations in every province of Canada
and the remaining 34 were English or French organizations in the language teaching or translation business. Individual and Anglo group written submissions were in the hundreds but not listed or commented upon, or even acknowledged
Needless to say the Francophones got their got their 1.1 billion plus another $175,000,000 to bring in African French speakers and plant them all across Canada into French start-up and older Franco communities. This current consultation is more extensive but no different in intent or certain result. Lord's report was a fraud from start to finish. One of the most shameful and corrupt documents ever produced for political ends.
To prove my contention in regard to these current so-called Consultations with Canadians, please look at the
Questionnaire issued by Heritage Canada, Consultations on Official Languages 20012:
NONE of these questions asks for the public's true opinions on the subject. Their first question alone (below) tells us that all these Questions are designed to force a positive response in support of French-only across Canada (the rest of the questions are similar in nature):
"What are the issues that should be prioritized in order to promote linguistic duality and raise Canadian's awareness on the advantages and benefits of our two official languages?"
There are no advantages except to the miserable 17% or thereabouts of self- declared bilingual Canadians of whom not more than 3% are English-speakers, the rest being of French background and those few English-bilinguals lucky enough to have been situated in a French milieu since childhood or otherwise have found it profitable to learn French in order to advance their careers.
After forty years of French immersion schools and classes; billions spent on exhortation and all manner of penalities for those not officially bilingual, that approximate 17% hasn't changed by one full percentage point. French on cereal boxes hasn't helped much either. Nor does the Prime Minister we all elected to get rid of forced Bilingualism warm many up to the language when he spouts French first to primarily English-speaking audiences. How grossly insensitive can our elected leader be? Intolerably callous and rude that's for sure.
The cost to Canadians of all this terrible misdirection of effort is also financially enormous. We need to change our government's minds very soon or the arrogance and divisiveness of this forced Frenchification of Canada will result in a virulent backlash. It is in fact happening now, all across Canada, especially in Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Cornwall, New Brunswick and the West. New Parties are being formed, every one with the potential to take away Conservative votes. Loss of confidence in our once fair democracy grows by leaps and bounds.
More to come in my next article. As they say on TV, "stay with us!" Please make sure you fill in their Questionnaire appropriately, even if your answers are trashed, but copy your answers and mail them to your MPs and MPPs, MLAs etc. by e-mail or regular mail, especially to you riding representatives, regardless of Party
Dick Field——
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Dick Field, editor of Blanco’s Blog, is the former editor of the Voice of Canadian Committees and the Montgomery Tavern Society, Dick Field is a World War II veteran, who served in combat with the Royal Canadian Artillery, Second Division, 4th Field Regiment in Belgium, Holland and Germany as a 19-year-old gunner and forward observation signaller working with the infantry. Field also spent six months in the occupation army in Northern Germany and after the war became a commissioned officer in the Armoured Corps, spending a further six years in the Reserves.
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