A letter written by the pseudo acadien Francois Arseneau of Hanwell.New Brunswick in the Daily Greaner is the very limit of arrogance on the language issue in that province.

Acadia was ceded to Great Britain in the early part of the 18th century by France. When Nova Scotia was split onto the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia English was the ONLY official language. But a few years ago, Premier McKenna who was Irish Roman Catholic was pressured into granting the Acadian (a Metis people of French and M'igmag Indian descent) the right to use their own French patois and made New Brunswick a Bilingual province.

Now we have a pseudo Acadien (Metis) named Francois Arseneau of Hanwell, New Brunswick who writes a letter advising the scrapping of the English system, and make it French-only in the classrooms, busses and school properties thereafter in the province. Of course since the English-speaking people are the majority in New Brunswick, it should be the other way round. All teaching in schools in New Brunswick should thus be in English-only and patterned after the Joual-language system in Quebec, which claims that them ajority in that province are Joual-speaking (French patois). Case closed.

Kenneth .T. Tellis
Mississauga, ON.