French Emersion
Feb 11th 2010 | 6:59 am
#61
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Re: French Emersion
Out of curiousity what were the types of jobs for which French was required or preferred in Vancouver?
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Feb 11th 2010 | 7:07 am
#62
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Re: French Emersion
Curiously, her previous position was as a French language radio host. In Alaska.
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Feb 11th 2010 | 7:22 am
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Re: French Emersion
That's nuts, but doesn't seem to have stopped them leaving.
re: separation, one of my issues is how quebec, that great millstone, has distorted education policy in provinces like mine where french really isn't that useful except for jobs with the feds. You can't argue that french is that relevant in bc. If we weren't shackled to quebec maybe a few people might need it for business, but that's it. It's ridculous that they require bilingualism for government jobs in this province. For what? The microscopic francophone community?
re: separation, one of my issues is how quebec, that great millstone, has distorted education policy in provinces like mine where french really isn't that useful except for jobs with the feds. You can't argue that french is that relevant in bc. If we weren't shackled to quebec maybe a few people might need it for business, but that's it. It's ridculous that they require bilingualism for government jobs in this province. For what? The microscopic francophone community?
Feb 11th 2010 | 7:26 am
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Re: French Emersion
It's hardly our place as immigrants to get involved in domestic racism. If we chose to move to a country where francophones or Catholics are favoured minority we have the choice to join that minority or not to, but it's not for us to dabble in cradle politics. This is a rare case where I've opted into Canadiana.
Feb 11th 2010 | 7:28 am
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Re: French Emersion
What an absolute load of rubbish.
Feb 11th 2010 | 7:31 am
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Re: French Emersion
Not sure which bit is rubbish.
Canada isn't our country, we shouldn't mess with the way it's run.
Canada has discrimination in favour of francophones and Ontario has discrimination in favour of Catholics. Since those are groups one can choose to join I think the immigrant should consider joining them; not ask that the country change the rules to suit the immigrant.
Canada isn't our country, we shouldn't mess with the way it's run.
Canada has discrimination in favour of francophones and Ontario has discrimination in favour of Catholics. Since those are groups one can choose to join I think the immigrant should consider joining them; not ask that the country change the rules to suit the immigrant.
Feb 11th 2010 | 7:36 am
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Feb 11th 2010 | 8:19 am
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Re: French Emersion
Not sure which bit is rubbish.
Canada isn't our country, we shouldn't mess with the way it's run.
Canada has discrimination in favour of francophones and Ontario has discrimination in favour of Catholics. Since those are groups one can choose to join I think the immigrant should consider joining them; not ask that the country change the rules to suit the immigrant.
Canada isn't our country, we shouldn't mess with the way it's run.
Canada has discrimination in favour of francophones and Ontario has discrimination in favour of Catholics. Since those are groups one can choose to join I think the immigrant should consider joining them; not ask that the country change the rules to suit the immigrant.
Feb 11th 2010 | 9:54 am
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Re: French Emersion
Why? I can't answer that. It just seems inappropriate to mess with the internal affairs of another nation, especially over something like that nation's choice of language, it's hardly a glaring human rights violation. In the same way, I think it's fair comment to attack the US over its policy of invading other nations, less so to fret over the semi-official status of Spanish as a national language.
Feb 11th 2010 | 9:58 am
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Re: French Emersion
Oil sands, environmentally and probably economically unsound but not something I can recall getting strident about. No more a defining feature of Canada than the tar ponds in Nova Scotia.
Feb 11th 2010 | 10:08 am
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Re: French Emersion
Why? I can't answer that. It just seems inappropriate to mess with the internal affairs of another nation, especially over something like that nation's choice of language, it's hardly a glaring human rights violation. In the same way, I think it's fair comment to attack the US over its policy of invading other nations, less so to fret over the semi-official status of Spanish as a national language.
Do you feel no attachment to the place?
Is it merely a means to an end?
Feb 11th 2010 | 10:28 am
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Re: French Emersion
I don't feel any attachment, no. I've a business here but it doesn't do any trading to speak of within Canada. I don't have a lot of dealings with cradle Canadians, the immigrant populace I know is the same mix as one would find in any large city. Overall Canada hasn't really made much of an impression on me one way or the other. The education system has been good though, it was very handy to have support for bilingualism.
Feb 11th 2010 | 10:51 am
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Re: French Emersion
Not sure which bit is rubbish.
Canada isn't our country, we shouldn't mess with the way it's run.
Canada has discrimination in favour of francophones and Ontario has discrimination in favour of Catholics. Since those are groups one can choose to join I think the immigrant should consider joining them; not ask that the country change the rules to suit the immigrant.
Canada isn't our country, we shouldn't mess with the way it's run.
Canada has discrimination in favour of francophones and Ontario has discrimination in favour of Catholics. Since those are groups one can choose to join I think the immigrant should consider joining them; not ask that the country change the rules to suit the immigrant.
