Monday, August 27, 2007

An inauspicious Canadian anniversary...........

...........though you'd never be able to tell that from this insipid CBC article, which is so vanilla that it says virtually nothing: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/08/26/quebec-bill101.html. You see, Quebec is "celebrating" the 30th anniversary of its infamous "Bill 101", which the article says made French the official language of Quebec, but which in reality legalized linguistic discrimination that should never be permitted in a true democracy. But, then again, whoever said that Quebec was truly democratic?

1 comment:

Tony Kondaks said...

Actually, Bill 101 isn't "linguistic" discrimination but discrimination based upon "race". Yup.

Read it and weep:

http://tinyurl.com/2z3ryr