NB Francophones plot to increase French language usage

"The Official Languages Act of 2002 has led to major advances in the language employed by municipalities, police, health services, in terms of creating the post of Commissioner of Official Languages.”

The English in New Brunswick have to defend their language rights out of their own pockets, while the French take our taxes to expand French language usage.

Translated from a French New Brunswick newspaper:-

Three groups of Francophone Acadians have been invited to participate in the review of the Official Languages Act of New Brunswick, which must occur by December 31, 2012.  A symposium will be held for this purpose on 19 and 20 November organized by the Association of French Speaking Jurists of New Brunswick (AJEFNB), the International Observatory of Linguistic Rights of the Faculty of Law at the University of Moncton and the Acadian Society of New Brunswick (ASNB) and the timing directly links to the provincial election campaign that officially begins in mid-week. They feel the next government of New Brunswick will have on its agenda the revision of the Official Languages Act since they have no choice - it is required by law.

The three Francophone Acadian groups will be well prepared for the review process and have decided to start the debate immediately, claimed lawyer Michel Doucet of the International Observatory. They already met with the Prime Minister on August 14 and want the Francophone community to have its own working committee for this review. They have declared "If the government is not ready, we will be. "

The conference will primarily be an exercise in understanding the strengths and weaknesses of this Act, and an analysis on the changes needed, if any.

"The Official Languages Act of 2002 has led to major advances in the language employed by municipalities, police, health services, in terms of creating the post of Commissioner of Official Languages. But is seen as having been adopted without debate around the law without any input from the community. Some of the provisions which were considered very attractive are still very ambiguous, For example, the police. When we say that the police officer who arrests someone on the roadside has a duty to provide service in the language of the choice of their client in a reasonable time What does "reasonable" mean? Some courts say that 45 minutes is reasonable. Others say the opposite, "says Michel Doucet. The lawyer explained that the symposium will provide Acadians to review various aspects of the law in deciding whether there should be improvements, especially when it comes to service delivery and working language in the public or powers of the Commissioner of Official Languages.

"What do people want? Do they want to make improvements to the law? It is quite possible that we are mistaken and that people say it is just fine."

"The invitation to the general public, the Acadian organizations. We hope to have a lot of people because it is of public interest," adds his colleague AJEFNB.

Following discussions, a report with recommendations will be submitted to the government. The President said that his organization SANB will push for a committee to be established jointly with the government to follow up on this issue.

How long will you watch?

The Federal Government and the Province of New Brunswick are now under total French control. English speaking Canadians no longer have any Language or Political rights whatsoever. The Province of New Brunswick is now an official Forced Bilingual Province and without a vote or referendum.

  All bilingual jobs in New Brunswick, which means virtually all jobs, go exclusively to French Canadians, many of whom are transported in from Quebec to replace the English employees as soon as they retire or can be phased out.

The English speaking citizens in New Brunswick can no longer seek employment or gain promotions based on Skills, Merit, Education or Experience anymore in our very own Province. Each Bilingual job posted is one more job taken away from the English citizens of New Brunswick.

We have completely lost our rights of full citizens of New Brunswick. We “The English Canadians” can no longer be employed by our Federal Government, Armed Forces, Police Force or any other Federal Government Corporation, Agency, Board or any other entity.

We watch as the French invasion arrives and become more visible with the backing of the Official Language Act and unlimited Federal billions of dollars in funding. We watch the push for “French First bilingual “signage and the push to have the French language included on all commercial signage in New Brunswick. The end to all unilingual English business as we today know it!  From the proposed takeover of the utilities to the ultimate goal of French being the language of work and the whole total transformation to a French-only province.

We Watch!

We watch as our Province gets switched over to “French only” or “French First bilingual Province” and all traces of our English language are diminished. From the banning of our right to advertise in the language of our choice, the English language to the replacement of road signs from English to French or to bilingual but with French first. All just an attempt to portray New Brunswick as a French only province! We have lost the right to advertise in the language of our choice.

We watch as our English families and friends leave our Province to seek employment only to make room for the new bilingual employees (French first with little or broken garbled English)  as they arrive from Quebec to replace us.

We watch as our fellow employees get bonuses and promotions at work based solely on what language they speak and while we work, stuck at the bottom of the ladder because we don’t meet the language qualifications for a job, bonus or promotion based on our choice of our English language.

We watch as our Government “over run with French control’ tries to sells our utilities and Corporations to Quebec.

We watch as we are discriminated against, looked down upon and treated as second class citizens because of what language we speak or because of what language we don’t speak. We are no longer allowed be English Citizens of New Brunswick.

We watch as the Acadian BANNER , which is nothing more than a flag of France with a star on it be allowed to be flown in front of our Government and Municipal buildings and offices to represent the French language and culture in New Brunswick while the Anglophone flag which represent the English language and culture in New Brunswick is Not allowed to be flown in front of Government buildings.

The Minority population of New Brunswick (the, French) are allowed to fly their flag but the majority Population of New Brunswick, (the English) are not allowed to fly their flag in front of Government buildings. There is something wrong with this picture!

We are forced to learn another language and we watch while the minority controls the majority. We watch as we are forced to preserve another language and culture other than our own. We watch until we have no rights left whatsoever. We are the FORCED people!

We the English speaking Canadians being as trusting and gullible as we are, just sit back and let ourselves and our children get brainwashed into believing that French is a good thing for us and that if we and our children don’t learn to speak French then we will have no future at all in New Brunswick or in Canada.

If you force me to learn another language so that I can communicate with you in the language of YOUR choice and so that you can be served in the language of YOUR choice because that’s your RIGHT, then you are taking away my RIGHT to communicate in the language of MY choice.

We watch until we have no choice in language left. We watch as we have no more rights to seek employment in our own language, Advertise or live in the language of our choice in New Brunswick.

We watch as they strip us of all our rights to exist in the language of our choice! We can no longer be English speaking citizens of New Brunswick! We are being forced to be speak and learn French while they annihilate all existence of the Unilingual English Canadian.

How long will you watch?

Tim Williams (Tiger)

Riverview , New Brunswick.