“English Canadians have nothing to offer us but their stupid mediocrity.”

Canadian Forums, January 2010

Folks, these are the people who transformed our nation.  They consider their task unfinished.

“English Canadians have nothing to offer us but their stupid mediocrity. Everything that weakens and humiliates Canada must cause us to rejoice". Jeanne Sauve, former governor general, 1984-1990"

 

 

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"My roll as Secretary of State of Canada is first and foremost to ensure that my French compatriots in Canada feel with deep conviction, as I do, that this is their country and that it reflects their image".
"I too had some difficult years as a politician; I'm still having them, in fact, because everything we undertake and everything we are doing to make Canada a French state is part of a venture I have shared for many years with a number of people".
"You know the idea, the challenge, the ambition of making Canada a French country both inside and outside Quebec -- an idea some people consider a bit crazy, is something a little beyond the ordinary imagination". Serge Joyal, Secretary of State, but now in the Senate. 'ENOUGH' by J.V. Andrew, P 2.

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“Unilingual Anglophones will be sentenced to a lifetime of job immobility" - Pierre Trudeau.

Pierre Trudeau in 1966. . . when he was parliamentary secretary to PM Pearson stated, “There is no way that two ethnic groups in one country can be made equal before the law! “To say that it is possible is to sow the seeds of destruction”!

Knowing that it was immoral and wrong, two years later as Prime Minister Trudeau forced through his infamous Bilingual program. "Quebec can make French the only official language in spite of the Constitution". Pierre Trudeau, 1967.

" ....Given these facts, should French-speaking people concentrate their efforts on Quebec. or take the whole of Canada as their base? In my opinion, they should do both; and for the purpose they could find no better instrument than federalism", Pierre Trudeau, Page 31 "Federalism", (1968).

"The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up" - Pierre Trudeau, Page 32, "Federalism" (1968) also quoted in “Farewell The Peaceful Kingdom” by Joe Armstrong. 

"Quebec can make French the only official language in spite of the Constitution". Pierre Trudeau, 1967.

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"Bilingualism, in truth, was nothing less than a social revolution…no one in Ottawa in the later 1960's let on that a massive change was about to happen… Trudeau knew this all along. He lied about it as a necessary means to an end". Richard Gwyn in his book the “Northern Magnus”.

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"The separatists' Bill 101 is a brilliant piece of legislation" - Stéphane Dion, Federal Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs (2001), President of the Queen's Privy Council and newly appointed watchdog over official bilingualism. Presently leader of the Liberals (2001).

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"If Québec separates, I will go with it; my loyalties are with Québec" - Pierre Pettigrew, Federal Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce (2001).

 

 

 

 

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"We are never entirely satisfied and we want to promote bilingualism (French) even more than we do now" Lucienne Robillard, President of the Treasury Board, 2001.

 

 

 

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"The French language is mandated for use by government and its agencies throughout the country's capital in an effort to promote the French language, therefore there is no longer a career for Anglophones in the federal civil service in Canada". -Dr. Marguerite Ritchie, President of the Human Rights Institute of Canada, admitting during a panel discussion in 1995.

 

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"I cannot swear it, but I think we were thinking to ourselves,... we are a small group, Trudeau, Pelletier, Marchand, Lalonde, Chrétien, myself and a few people in the civil service, say 50 all told… we were bringing off a revolution. We held the key posts. We were making the civil service bilingual (French), kicking and screaming all the time". Jean-Luc Pepin, Minister of Industry, 1970.

 

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"Canada is going to be a French speaking nation from coast to coast and anybody opposed to this is opposed to the best interest of Canada". Leo Cadieux - speaking to French National Assembly, 1973.
"Canada is going to be a French-speaking nation from coast to coast". Leo Cadieux, Canadian Ambassador to France, 1973.

 

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Dr. Jim Pankiw, Canadian Alliance MP for Saskatoon-Humboldt, stood up in the house of commons on April 6th, 2001 and asked the liberal government the following questions:
Question No. 1: "Mr. Speaker, Treasury Board statistics confirm that for every increase in the number of federal public service jobs designated bilingual, there is a corresponding decrease in the participation rate of Anglophones in the public service. I should like to know what steps the government is prepared to take to end the systematic discrimination against English speaking Canadians with respect to hiring and promotions".

Response: "Mr. Speaker, this is probably the most insulting question I have ever heard in the House of Commons" Don Boudria, Liberal house leader.

Question No. 2 "Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government's application of forced bilingualism is costly, discriminatory and a source of national divisiveness and disunity. Not withstanding, I ask the Justice Minister why she intervenes on behalf of Ontario Francophones but does not request intervener status to protect Anglophones in Québec. She is prepared to defend the interests of French speaking people in Ontario but she is not prepared to defend the rights of English speaking people in Québec. Why is there a double standard?"

Response: None.

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"There will be no retreat in Quebec on the French language policy". Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Dec. 12th, 1986.

 

 

 

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"The government of Canada has no right to promote English in Quebec". Gil Remillard, Minister for Inter-Governmental Affairs, 1988.

 

 

 

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"Bilingualism is unthinkable for Quebec". Robert Bourassa, 1988.



 

 

 

 

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 "Language legislation is utterly insane and is designed to encourage bigotry. There is no precedence anywhere for unity being enhanced through a policy of two official languages". Peter Worthington, Financial Post, July ‘88.

 

 

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 "Anyone with a pea for a brain knows that our Canadian federal government is today firmly under French Canadian control". J.V. Andrew, Ret. Lieut. Cmdr. Navy, in his book 'ENOUGH' (Published 1988).

 

 

 

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Dr. Ron Cheffins, Victoria's political science professor and host on CFAX Tuesdays in B.C., is shocked at the new Official Language policy being worked in for April 1, 2004 under the blind eye of unilingual English-speaking Canadians.
The new policy states that all people applying for the top jobs in government, crown corporations, health care among other sectors must be fluent in written and oral French. Prior to this, the policy was that anyone who wanted these jobs had two years to bring their French language skills up to whatever level they needed to do their own job. They would be required to learn it while working on the job.
However, now the policy states that English only speaking Canadians (which of course we know is the majority) are literally locked out of these best jobs and leadership positions! We now have a full fledged dictatorship! What is even more shocking is the fact that no conservatives in any political party in Canada have ever tackled the French on this bilingualism issue. They have remained silent!
This new policy now slams the door on Western Canadians permanently! As it is now, the French control 65% of all administrative positions in government and the military. But the new policy states that everybody applying for any of these jobs must be totally fluent in French, both oral and written before even applying!

A National referendum on this crucial matter has never been conducted in Canada. If a referendum were held, Official Bilingualism would fail and the Constitution would have to be changed! This would end the French domination of the Anglophone population. That is why Ottawa has never permitted nor even discussed a referendum. It is the only way to understand the true needs and wishes of the majority.

In our parliamentary system, the people have no power, Ottawa has it all. In all the past years, not one Conservative leader has dared confront this issue. English speaking Canadians have never had a voice. They were manipulated into it by the leftist Trudeau Liberals. It is obvious that Canadian conservatives have always been impotent in this socialist regime. Why have they left millions of English speaking Canadians and their children unrepresented in the matter?

As long as it remains in place, it will continue to drain the Nation’s coffers while millions who make up the majority of Canada, English speaking, will be discriminated against and will fester with the resentment, anger...you will not be working in the future, or you must speak French to be employed by any level of government.

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http://www.canadaka.net/forums/jibber-jabber-f9/famous-quotes-on-the-language-issues-in-canada-t86426.html

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English Should be the Language of Europe

“English should be the language of Europe, claims Germany's president as he begs Britain not to leave the European Union”

Mail Online, February 22, 2013

By Allan Hall (photo unavailable)

Joachim Gauck

English should become the language of Europe, the German president has claimed. Joachim Gauck made his comments in Berlin as he pleaded with Britain not to leave the European Union.

In remarks unlikely to please the French, Mr Gauck said English had become the ‘lingua franca’ of the continent. ‘One of the main problems we have in building a more integrated European community is the inadequate communication within Europe,’ he said. It is true to say that young people are growing up with English as the lingua franca. ‘However, I feel that we should not simply let things take their course when it comes to linguistic integration.

‘More Europe means multilingualism. I am convinced that feeling at home in one’s native language and its magic and being able to speak enough English to get by in all situations and at all ages can exist alongside each other in Europe.’ Mr Gauck also pleaded with Britain to stay in the EU.

Referring to David Cameron’s pledge of an in/out referendum on the EU Gauck said in a keynote speech: 'Dear English, Scots, Welsh, Northern Irish and new British citizens. We would like to keep you! “We need your experiences as the country with the oldest parliamentary democracy, we need your traditions, your soberness and your courage.”

'You helped with your deployment in World War II to save our Europe - it is also your Europe.  ‘More Europe should not mean "without you," he said to thunderous applause at his palace in Berlin in his first major address since taking on the job nearly a year ago.

Aware that a powerful Germany is now seen as a bully in many European countries - dictating austerity in cash-strapped nations - he insisted in his televised speech: “We don’t want to browbeat others, or press our concepts on them. We stand however by our experiences and would like to convey them,' recalling that less than a decade earlier Germany had been the 'sick man of Europe’.”

The president, whose has a largely ceremonial and moral leadership role, conceded that a 'structural flaw' led to an imbalance in the European Union which was only “patched up by emergency measures, such as the European Stability Mechanism and the fiscal compact.” He also conceded that most of what the EU’s 500 million citizens have read or heard about the 27-member bloc over the past few years has tended to be about the eurozone crisis. “This is also a crisis of confidence in Europe as a political project. This is not just a struggle for our currency; we are struggling with an internal quandary too.”

The president then went on to remind his audience, which was largely made up of people under the age of 30, of the achievements of the EU since it began as a trading block in the post-war years - including the fact that the bloc 'has been at peace ever since.'

After all, he said, 'it was from our country that the attempts to destroy everything European, all universal values were unleashed.

Despite everything that happened, the Allies granted our country support and solidarity straight after the war,' he said. 'We were invited, received and welcomed.' The president also stressed that despite its economic might, Berlin had no aspirations of imposing 'a German diktat.'

Gauck, an activist pastor from former communist East Germany, defined what Germany owed to Europe and the western Allies in rebuilding after the devastation of WWII. 'We were spared at the time what could have easily followed after our hubris, an existence as an outcast stranger outside of the community of nations.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282992/English-language-Europe-claims-Germanys-president-begs-Britain-leave-European-Union.html

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The Corrupt Children of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution

“The promise of 1962 was that a new elite would leave behind the cronyism and corruption of the old order, ruled as it was by the Church in culture and the English in business. That, 50 years on, Quebec would be having yet another of its periodic corruption inquiries was not the dream of 1962.”
“This is something more than just another Quebec corruption scandal. It is the betrayal of the grand project of 1962. The new masters of the house came, and they looted it.”

National Post, November 15, 2012

By Father Raymond J. de Souza
 

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza

So there are some limits. Gilles Vezina, a senior Montreal bureaucrat, testified this week that bribes and kickbacks were part of the “business model” of his city’s public works contracting. However, on Tuesday he told the Charbonneau commission that he turned down the offer of prostitutes. Hockey tickets, yes; hookers, no. There is apparently still honour among thieves.

Monsieur Vezina was, once upon a time, among the new generation of leaders who would build the new Quebec - secular, centralized, nationalist - under the direction of the state. They were the bold souls who would lift the veil on la grande noirceur (“the great darkness”, as it is called) of the Maurice Duplessis years. It turns out that Quebec’s new bureaucratic elite rather liked working the shadows themselves.

Gilles Vezina

Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of the provincial election that gave birth to modern Quebec. After the death of Duplessis in 1959, and of his successor Paul Sauve only a few months later, Liberal Jean Lesage swept to a majority in 1960, defeating the Union Nationale. Yet only two years into a majority mandate, Lesage returned to the polls early on Nov. 14, 1962, winning a fresh mandate for a radical new vision. While in 1960 Lesage ran under the slogan of generic change – C’est le temps que ca change (it’s time things changed) in 1962, he unfurled the banner of the Quiet Revolution: Maitres chez nous (Masters in our own home).

The key proposal was the nationalization of the hydroelectric industry. The new pilot of Quebec’s economic development would be Lesage’s star minister, Rene Levesque.

The promise of 1962 was that a new elite would leave behind the cronyism and corruption of the old order, ruled as it was by the Church in culture and the English in business. That 50 years on Quebec would be having yet another of its periodic corruption inquiries was not the dream of 1962.

If 1962 marked a new moment for Lesage and Levesque, it also brought Pierre Trudeau to new prominence. That year, he published in Cite libre his famous essay, La Nouvelle Trahison des Clercs, excoriating Quebec’s new intellectual class. Trudeau accused them of betraying Quebec by their embrace of nationalism and separatism.

Trudeau’s title was adapted from Julien Benda’s 1927 book La Trahison des Clercs, in which the French writer assailed his own country’s intellectuals for abandoning their classical Christian tradition in favour of ignoble political ideologies, including those of nationalism and race. It was translated into English as the “betrayal of the intellectuals.” But clercs in the original French has a powerful dual significance. The secular intellectuals were the new clercs, taking over the role once played in France by the actual clergy.

Quebec decided in 1962 to entrust its future to another breed of clercs, the actual clerks of the modern state bureaucracy. If the problem of the great darkness was that it was priest-ridden, the new Quebec would be led into the light by the trained, efficient clerks of its public service. They would run not only public services, but the electricity industry, the education establishment and much else besides.

Trudeau saw all this emerging, and sounded the alarm in that critical year. The new clercs were committing a new betrayal, he argued. They were handing over the rights of Quebecers to another collectivist dream.

Read more:

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/11/15/father-raymond-j-de-souza-the-quiet-revolutions-corrupt-children/

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Quebec ne pas aime appointment

Stephen Harper’s new Communications Director doesn’t speak French. French are upset. Are they angry enough to separate – finally?

A Quebec separatist has filed an official complaint against Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new choice for communications director.

Gilles Rheaume wants the Canadian Human Rights Commission to investigate the appointment of Angelo Persichilli.

The ex-president of the St. Jean Baptiste Society says the fact that Persichilli can't speak French is unfair to French-speaking Canadians and journalists.

Rheaume also says that Persichilli, a former journalist, has engaged in "Quebec bashing" in some of his work.

Rheaume isn't the first Quebecer to complain about the appointment.

Several politicians and pundits have criticized the choice, saying it's a sign the province isn't a priority for Harper.

Persichilli, whose appointment was announced on Aug. 31, will replace Dimitri Soudas next week as Harper's director of communications.

The 63-year-old journalist was a columnist for the Toronto Star and political editor of Italian-language newspaper Corriere Canadese.

He also contributed regular political columns to The Hill Times newspaper and the Toronto Sun, and appeared as a commentator on network news programs.

Born in Castellino, Italy, Perscichilli emigrated to Canada in 1975. He was involved in multicultural broadcasting in Toronto, reaching the post of vice president at CFMT, now called Omni.

At the time of his appointment, Persichilli said he will be working to learn French.

"I'm honoured and privileged for this job, for the appointment and I'm honoured to serve Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government," Persichilli said.

Harper's bilingual press secretary Andrew MacDougall will take on the role of associate director of communications and be the main spokesperson for the Prime Minister's Office.

© The Canadian Press, 2011

Bilingualism fiasco heating up

Canadians for Language Fairness, September 8, 2011

By Kim McConnell 

The battle against the Official Languages Act (1969) has been going on since its inception by many people who saw how the Act was going to be disastrous for the English-speaking majority of Canada. Too many people of the Liberal mind-set saw NO problem with giving a minority the reins of power and unfortunately for us, they still exist, especially in Quebec.

Many people have criticized the Harper government for not doing anything to rescind the Act which we all know they are not totally in support of. However, that task will be a long and arduous one because the Canadian people are still very divided about Official Bilingualism. The fact that a whole new industry has grown up around the language debate means that there is a lot of vested interest in keeping in going. The translation industry is huge and the billions spent because even perfectly bilingual public servants don’t trust their own grasp of the language to be able to write their own documents.

A letter to the Ottawa Citizen says: “The City of Ottawa spends $1.8 million annually on translation - alone”.  The Federal government’s translation costs are even higher: The Department of National Defence has been trying to comply with the Official Languages Act and have doubled their translation costs since 2005. The bill went from $11.5 million in 2005 to more than $23.8 million last year. This year, so far, National Defence has spent $14.2 million on translation costs!

Apart from the cost of translation, there are literally thousands of French-language organizations, each given a very generous grant to “protect, preserve and promote” the French language and culture. Their collective voices can be pretty loud and most governments are afraid of these vocal groups. Without financial assistance, the English-rights groups cannot be quite as effective because they lack the funds to carry their messages to the public in general.

I say again, thank God for the Sun media & especially to SunTV – the only TV station that dares to challenge the obviously discriminatory effect of the OLA which is slowly but surely leaching down to provincial and municipal levels.

New Brunswick is facing a particularly difficult time as the Arcadians demand more French-only services while demanding that all English-language institutions become bilingual.

Just in case Ontarians think that we don’t need to worry because our percentage of French-speakers is so low (just over 4%), think again!!! The Liberal government under Dalton McGuinty (with pressure from Madeleine Meilleur) is ensuring that they can create more Francophones by classifying anyone who speaks French as a Francophone.

Even the attempt to make Ontarians more aware that they are being marginalized in so many ways (e.g. signs that place French first and to the left, disregarding the F.I.P) as is being done by the Ontario Parks Authority, is not meeting with over-whelming success. People are just not worried about being dominated by Quebecers!!!

The brain-washing effect of Official Bilingualism has created many Canadians who blithely repeat the mantra, “Canada is a bilingual country” without even considering the fact that, with only 12% of Canadians truly bilingual, and a province – Quebec - that has declared itself officially French, Canada cannot be, and will never be, bilingual!

Until and unless we can persuade more Canadians to join the fight to abolish the OLA, the Conservative government has to obey the Act.

I’m hoping that, behind the scenes, they are doing things like making “where numbers warrant” an enforceable guideline for the policy. We are not anti-French and don’t want those who speak only French to be denied service.  “Where numbers warrant” should be defined so that they do get government service where it makes numerical sense. As it is now, it is enforced right across the board so that ALL public services in Ottawa are controlled by French-speakers.

I was at the Ottawa General Hospital a few days ago, and all staff members were speaking French, which means that they are all Quebecers working in an Ontario hospital. If you speak English only, don’t expect a job in any provincial or federal government office.

Anyway, judging from the comments regarding Angelo Persichilli, the PM’s new Communications Director, you can see that there are more people speaking up about this travesty of justice. Add your voice to the growing storm.

Should bilingualism be a requirement for senior officials in government?

Kim McConnell

A CBC Poll on bilingualism in Canada

Should bilingualism be a requirement for senior officials in government? Why or why not?

Vote Here:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/09/should-bilingualism-be-a-requirement-for-senior-officials-in-government.html

A response from Kim McConnell of Canadians for Language Fairness follows.

It is very clear from the responses to the various comments that the policy of Official Bilingualism is getting a serious review from most of your viewers. It is just a pity that it has taken over 40 years and many billions of dollars to come to the conclusion that the policy is a total failure. Only the French-speakers are beneficiaries of this policy and it was brought in to unite the country which it has totally failed to do. In actual fact, it has caused a lot of division between the French-speakers (the minority) and the English-speakers (the majority). Merit has been replaced by proficiency in French, which has reduced drastically the quality of our public service - many people will attest to that.

It has also given rise to unreasonable demands from the French groups who are so used to being treated with so much "sensitivity" that they think they are the only group with a monopoly on that human emotion. Just because French is a language that is on life support and would die over-night without massive financial support does not mean that the language should be treated like the Crown Jewels. If you want your language to be kept alive, do so in your own homes & in your social activities. Stop forcing the rest of us to take a back seat because you have been given the opportunity by Trudeau & the Liberal government to take advantage of your minority position. Tyranny of the Minority is what is happening in Canada today and this is not a healthy situation if you want the country to prosper. Spending money to elevate a minority group to a superior position is definitely a recipe for social unrest!

More Canadians should be speaking up on this issue!

Kim McConnell

A CBC Poll on bilingualism in Canada

Should bilingualism be a requirement for senior officials in government? Why or why not?

Vote Here:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/09/should-bilingualism-be-a-requirement-for-senior-officials-in-government.html

A response from Kim McConnell of Canadians for Language Fairness

It is very clear from the responses to the various comments that the policy of Official Bilingualism is getting a serious review from most of your viewers. It is just a pity that it has taken over 40 years and many billions of dollars to come to the conclusion that the policy is a total failure. Only the French-speakers are beneficiaries of this policy and it was brought in to unite the country which it has totally failed to do. In actual fact, it has caused a lot of division between the French-speakers (the minority) and the English-speakers (the majority). Merit has been replaced by proficiency in French which has reduced drastically the quality of our public service - many people will attest to that.

It has also given rise to unreasonable demands from the French groups who are so used to being treated with so much "sensitivity" that they think they are the only group with a monopoly on that human emotion. Just because French is a language that is on life support and would die over-night without massive financial support does not mean that the language should be treated like the Crown Jewels. If you want your language to be kept alive, do so in your own homes & in your social activities. Stop forcing the rest of us to take a back seat because you have been given the opportunity by Trudeau & the Liberal government to take advantage of your minority position. Tyranny of the Minority is what is happening in Canada today and this is not a healthy situation if you want the country to prosper. Spending money to elevate a minority group to a superior position is definitely a recipe for social unrest!

More Canadians should be speaking up on this issue!

Kim