Letter to Canadian Prime Minister

The Honourable Stephen Harper,
Prime Minister of Canada,
24 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada

Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

Your recent statement vis-a-vis the celebration of the "International Day of Francophonia," seems to be completely out of touch with the reality of Canada's Joualophone population. Your statement might have come from Quebec and its Metis (Quebecois), or for that matter from the different Canadien (Metis) groups across the rest of Canada, which has been doctored by them to inflate their population figures to the point of insanity. The people that you spoke about , were not CANADIANS, but CANADIENS as you so correctly put it in your opening paragraph.

But Mr.Prime Minister, I can assure you that JOUAL (French patois) is not an integral part of of Canada's history or identity, including our daily lives. So please, make it a point and tell the Canadian people the truths of their history, rather then narrate a Fairy Tale a la Hans Christian Anderson or even the Brothers Grimm to them, because that would be totally out of your field of expertize. You might as a politician stretch the truth a little bit while giving a speech, but in this case you have entered the domain of Fables, which might well be good for children, but certainly not for adults. I would like to know where you obtained that figure of 9.5 million Canadiens (Metis) from? Surely not from the last census, which was badly flawed, since it was assumed in that census that people who had French sounding names were Canadiens, even when they were English-speaking and not Joual-speaking. Ergo, it must not be taken for granted that a person who has a Frenh name is necessarily French at all. The REAL figure is thus far less than the figures you quoted of their being 9.5 million Canadiens in Canada. There has been a policy by Canadiens working on the census to up their figure by including all people who bear French names a Canadiens, which is certainly not TRUE at all.

I do believe that your Roadmap of Canada's Linguistic Duality to be a farce, because you have avoided any mention of the fact that the English-language has no LEGAL status in Quebec, where it has been BANNED by law, and this throws a wrench in your facetious argument.

But Mr. Prime Minister, there is no BILINGUALISM in Canada to begin with, since Quebec has thrown cultural diversity out the window, if you take into account the laws passed by the town of Herouxville, Quebec, as any example to having respect and tolerance for other cultures in that province. So again your argument is proving the be the exact opposite of the Reality of Canada, where diversity and culture are NOT tolerated in the JOUAL-speaking (French patois) province of QUEBEC.

You Mr. Prime Minister are wasting the hard-earned tax dollars of Canadians to implement a hare-brained scheme of absolutely no importance, and channel millions of dollars to Banana Republics that were once the pipe dream of France's failed colonial enterprise in Africa and to a small extent in Asia and the Caribbean. Let LA MERE France pay the full shot for all its former colonial untakings and keep our money right here in Canada to help Canadians have a better life.

Sincerely,

Kenneth T. Tellis