Is this the sort of BILINGUALISM that Trudeau was promoting?
Going into a shop Post Office in Valleyfield, Quebec was an example of the DOUBLE STANDARDS being practiced by the Federal Government of Canada.
There was a sign: Bureau de poste / Concessionaire agree but no sign in English stating: Post Office / Authorized Dealer as is required by the Federal Government of Canada in Ontario or any other English-speaking province of Canada.
On asking why there was no sign in English, I was told by the girl behind the post office counter that Quebec does not permit English signs even when it comes to Federal jurisdiction in Quebec.
Having written to the federal government about this violation by Quebec, I did not get any reply nor did I expect one, because the Federal Civil Service in Ottawa is pitted with Quebecois (Metis), who would not let it get any further by simply delegating it to the paper shredder, because it involved violating the rights of English-speaking citizens of Canada.
Just think about why the City of Ottawa only has money to pay Lawyer Ron Caza to defend the 14.5 % Joual-speaking (French patois) Ottawans who want to implement a policy that serves both English and Joual and that employees have the right to work in the language of choice. But no such funding is available in respect of English-speaking people in Ottawa that were are opposed to the idea or demanded that the majority language should prevail as in the case Hull, Quebec just across the river where only the use of the Joual language is permitted by law. Thus while the Joual-speaking majority of Quebec can impose their language on English-speaking people, the federal government does not permit the English-speaking majority similar rights in any part of the English-speaking provinces of Canada.
Thus the Quebecois are crossing from Quebec into Ontario and taking so-called BILINGUAL jobs in Ottawa, Ontario and do not have to pay one cent in taxes to the province on Ontario. Now that’s like having your cake and eating it the same time. And thus the 14.5 % Canadien (Metis) minority in Ottawa control City Hall and attempt to use their power to enforce BILINGUALISM there, while they openly support Quebec’s Language Law Bill 101, which bans the use of English. It’s time to demand that these Quebecois who cross the Ontario border every day to take jobs from Ontarians be told that they cannot work in Ontario, unless they are legal residents of Ontario. So it is time to set the record straight and make the changes as in the case of Quebec.
Kenneth T. Tellis