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Languages act called 'Quebec Nazi Act'

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Languages act called 'Quebec Nazi Act'


Misc CDN | 206898 hits | Aug 24 11:23 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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The Correctional Service of Canada has started an internal investigation into how the Official Languages Act was renamed the "Quebec Nazi Act" on Wikipedia.

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  1. by avatar GreenTiger
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:02 am
    Xenophobic perhaps but not racist.

  2. by avatar Mustang1
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:37 pm
    Bigoted? Yep. Antiquated? Yep. Hypocritical? Yep. Nazi? No...but this is the province that politically (remember the BPC?) opposed conscription during WWII. Just saying. :wink:

  3. by avatar Brenda
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:00 pm
    Methinks one government employee is going to lose their job...

  4. by avatar desertdude
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:33 pm
    Well what is posted is true, and I don't know if it is. Then its very well racist.

    "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."

  5. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:35 pm
    Discrimination is such a beautiful thing.

  6. by avatar andyt
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:39 pm
    "desertdude" said
    Well what is posted is true, and I don't know if it is. Then its very well racist.

    "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.

  7. by avatar kenmore
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:18 pm
    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.

  8. by avatar kenmore
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:21 pm
    "desertdude" said
    Well what is posted is true, and I don't know if it is. Then its very well racist.

    "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?

  9. by avatar Wada
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:51 pm
    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.

  10. by avatar Mustang1
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:54 pm
    "kenmore" said
    the law will stand so why do people outside Québec go on about it.


    Because we like calling out hypocrites and the culturally insecure.

  11. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:58 pm
    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. :lol:

  12. by avatar Bodah
    Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:44 pm
    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.

  13. by avatar SprCForr  Gold Member
    Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:23 am
    "Wada" said
    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.

  14. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:30 am

    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.



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