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© get this straight

DOES ANYTHENG remain to be said about the lan-
guage fiasco in Quebec? Yes, because those who should
have been swinging clubs studded with nails have been coo-

ing and billing like doves.

Brian Baloney was finally forced
to tap Robert Bourassa, Canada’s
very own Hamiet, on the wrist.
Without mentioning him by name,
of course. Rather, our revered
leader sounded like a parson whose
best friend had been caught steal-
ing from the collection plate.
Regrets but no real reproach.

There was none of the fire
shown when Manitoba looked as if
it might dump on bilingualism. On
that occasion, Brian cailed on that
province to do justice to French-

speaking Manitobans. He even
rode his horse into Winnipeg to
put his fellow Tories straight.

As for the small band of
“‘dinosaurs”’ in Ottawa who
fought the new, anti-Anglo Lan-
guages Act, he told them it was his
way or the doorway.

Then there are the media pundits
who have backed bilingualism
these many years in the name of
decency and national unity. One
almost feels sorry for them, so
often had they damned those
“rednecks and bigots’’ who didn't
want French on the cornflake
boxes or preferential treatment for
Quebecers in the bureaucracy.

And Iet us not forget the CBC,
with its two-hour specials about
‘how bilingualism is the wave of the
future and how all men of good
will love it.

into this swamp of false hap-
piness leaps M. Bourassa, telling
the rest of the country it can go
and get stuffed and that it can take
its bilingualism and eat it. Quebec
will go its own way. Vivre le
Quebec litre.

Hate to say ‘‘! told you so.*’ But
I did. And didn’t f also tell you
that what was going on in Quebec
was language fascism? Or, as we
may now call it, indoor-outdoor
democracy!

Did 1 mention the CBC? Well,
sometimes it is right. The very
morning after M. Bourassa drop-
ped his little bomb a French fem

was on the air from Montreal teil-
ing us that the anglos in Quebec
have their place. But it is ‘*a cir-
cumscribed place.’* Exactly.

English is OK, she might have
added, provided it is kept under
the counter.

In the meantime, the French
mob was burning the Canadian
flag in honor of the French Fact.
None of our biggies got excited
about that, naturally. it was all
they could do to look thoughtful.

I too was thoughtful. I was
thinking about how Quebcc likes
our bucks but not our flags. Ii us-
ed to be the Union Jack that they
burned. Now it’s the Maple Leaf.
Today Quebec, tomorrow the
world?

Where are the Pierre Bertons
and Allan Fotheringhams and
Barbara Frums now? Alas, poor
Yorick.

Can you imagine what peopie
like that would have said if a mob
in B.C. had been out in the streets
burning flags in honor of the
English Fact? But not to worry.
No fear of that. The English Fact
operates under the motto “We
surrender.*'

Here's something else that no
one has mentioned. Those riots in
Quebec in favor of the French Fact
were race riols. Language was
merely the match that lit the fire.

We are all racists at heart, of
course. But the French in Quebec
are the most racist of all.

We can pass as many Language
Acts as we like, inspire as many
appeasements as we like, and crawl
as much as we like. It will make no
difference.

Quebec first, last and always.
Our court fools, in Parliament and
out, will go on making excuses for
French racism and there will be no
peace until Quebec and the rest of
the country go their separate ways.

The camel cannot swallow the
donkey.

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