Official Bilingualism was never approved by the Citizens of Canada in a National Referendum. Unilingual English Canadians accepted the Official Languages Act because we believed the propaganda of Trudeau and other politicians that recognition of the minority French Language would give all Canadians the freedom to communicate with government in their language of choice.
This propaganda had the message that this would unite all of Canada, including Quebec, with little or no increase to the cost of government. We had no idea that this Federal Law had a hidden agenda of enforcing the minority French language on all of Canada’s provincial governments, business and Unilingual English Canadians.
In 1969 approximately five percent of the Canadians outside of Quebec were bilingual in French and English and after forty years the percentage of Canadians bilingual in French and English remains approximately the same. In that same forty year period Official Bilingualism has however increased the costs to Canadian governments and business by over One trillion dollars while creating deep divisions within the Country.
It is time for the majority of Canadians who are unilingual Anglophones to stand up for their rights and contact your elected representatives and all political parties, to request an end to a forty year old, very costly, failed Official Bilingualism policy for Canada.
Yours truly,
Ken Kellington,
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
