Travis
Quoting Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>:
> > Marvin Gandall wrote:
> >
> > >She will make a fine representative of Her Majesty. The Canadian
> > >left has developed a new attachment to the monarchy since the
> > >announcement.
> >
> > The controversy over whether they were closet separatists arose while
> > we were visiting Quebec. What's happened since?
> >
> > So what about Quebec separatism in general? We were struck by the way
> > signs and plaques referred to the "national" capital of Quebec City
> > (and the dueling historical markers - vaguely pro-English stuff in
> > two languages mounted by the Canadian gov't, and monolingual
> > pro-French stuff from the Quebec gov, promoting an almost Balkan
> > level of resentment over historical losses). And it seemed from
> > touristic observation that even Montreal was a strikingkly
> > non-"diverse" city - has Quebec nationalism kept out/driven out
> > immigrants? What's the analysis/position of the Anglo Canadian left
> > on Quebec?
> >
> > Doug
> If anything, the culprit for lack of diversity in Quebec must be
> Canada's immigration policy, Canada's education policy, and (probably
> more importantly) the hegemony of the English language as the second
> language in many countries (after all, the British had more colonies
> than the French).
>
> <blockquote>The study released today shows that the concerns first
> expressed by the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
> in 1969 were founded: Francophones have generally not had their fair
> share of immigration to Canada. First, statistics show a significant
> disparity between the proportion of immigrants who know English and
> French when they come to Canada : 5% French-only speakers, as
> compared to 48% English-only speakers, 4% who can speak both official
> languages and 43% who speak neither. Once they have settled here,
> most immigrants adopt the English language. Some 83% use English,
> while 7% use French and 3% use both official languages. Second, the
> federal government has not been making any pro active effort to
> recruit French-speaking immigrants overseas. Most French-speaking
> immigrants to Canada settle in Quebec, with the province receiving
> some 84% of all immigrants who speak French only upon arrival and
> some 57% of all new arrivals who declared knowledge of both English
> and French.
>
> Dr. Adam points out that Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has
> shown sensitivity to this issue. In fact, the new Immigration and
> Refugee Protection Act recognizes that immigration is to support "the
> commitment of the Government of Canada to enhance the vitality of the
> English and French linguistic minority communities in Canada." For
> the Commissioner, "while this is definitely a step in the right
> direction, there is still a lot of ground to cover to make this
> objective a reality."
>
> <http://www.ocol-clo.gc.ca/archives/nr_cp/2002/2002-02-26_e.htm></
> blockquote>
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi
> <http://montages.blogspot.com>
> <http://monthlyreview.org>
> <http://mrzine.org>
> * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/mahmoud-
> ahmadinejads-face.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/chvez-
> congratulates-ahmadinejad.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/
> 2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html>
>
>
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