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Title: Languages act called 'Quebec Nazi Act'
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-08-24 23:23:27
Canadian

[GreenTiger]

Xenophobic perhaps but not racist.

[Mustang1]

Bigoted? Yep. Antiquated? Yep. Hypocritical? Yep. Nazi? No...but this is the province that politically (remember the BPC?) opposed conscription during WWII. Just saying.

[Brenda]

Methinks one government employee is going to lose their job...

[desertdude]

Well what is posted is true, and I don't know if it is. Then its very well racist.

$1:

"The Quebec Nazi act is a law adopted by the Parliament of Canada in 1969 and substantially amended in 1988. The law gives Frenchspeaking Canadians more opportunity than English speaking Canadians in the government of Canada... It allows Quebecers to have preferential treatment in jobs over people who already live in Ontario."

[BartSimpson]

Discrimination is such a beautiful thing.

[andyt]

desertdude desertdude:

Well what is posted is true, and I don't know if it is. Then its very well racist.

$1:

"The Quebec Nazi act is a law adopted by the Parliament of Canada in 1969 and substantially amended in 1988. The law gives Frenchspeaking Canadians more opportunity than English speaking Canadians in the government of Canada... It allows Quebecers to have preferential treatment in jobs over people who already live in Ontario."

What is posted is not true on it's face. The law requires many federal positions to be bilingual. Bilinguals are much more likely to be from Quebec than from other provinces (New Brunswick would be second) - so in effect the act favors Quebecois.

[kenmore]

A little over board I would say.. so some one will lose their job, and nothing will change in Québec. the law will stand so why do people outside Québec go on about it.

[kenmore]

desertdude desertdude:

Well what is posted is true, and I don't know if it is. Then its very well racist.

$1:

"The Quebec Nazi act is a law adopted by the Parliament of Canada in 1969 and substantially amended in 1988. The law gives Frenchspeaking Canadians more opportunity than English speaking Canadians in the government of Canada... It allows Quebecers to have preferential treatment in jobs over people who already live in Ontario."

Its not true bucky.. Canada has two official languages, both holding the same weight. English rules outside Québec! I went into a bank here in town ( in Ontario) and there was no-one who spoke french. works both ways eh?

[Wada]

Well I was working for the Federal government when this all took place in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Initially positions within the branch were given "bilingual" classification and anyone was allowed to apply whether English or French. If you were English and did not speak and write French but was chosen as best for the position then you would be sent for French training and when you completed said training then you went into that position, and if French only, then the same. It soon became evident that training was costly and in a very short time only the bilingual French were being hired.

[Mustang1]

kenmore kenmore:

the law will stand so why do people outside Québec go on about it.

Because we like calling out hypocrites and the culturally insecure.

[BartSimpson]

Can't wait to see the US and Canada merge for the sole reason that then all of us anglophones can sit back and watch the fireworks as the Mexicans and the Quebeckers duke it out to force one to learn the other's language.

[Bodah]

If Quebec can reject bilingualism whay can't rest of the country do the same ?

Or at least fix the problem. What the guy posted was spot on save for the nazi reference. Office of official languages should be changed to Office of the French Language because I've never seen them come to the public defense of English. And they've had a shitload of chances.

Truth hurts sometimes.

[SprCForr]

Wada Wada:

It soon became evident that training was costly and in a very short time only the bilingual French were being hired.

I remember the 0.1 PER bonus all bilingual speakers got one year caused a hell of a ruckus. Every Franco got it due to having SLT at recruit school and no Anglo got it unless they had a vaild language profile.

I remember the testing we all had to take after that little surprise. You couldn't get SLT unless you could already understand it. Never understood that.

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

What the guy posted was spot on save for the nazi reference

It was a little over the top. I know they don't like Anglos, but they use their language laws to assist in ethnic cleansing, not concentration camps and crematoriums.