Doug Collins

get this straight ®

SOMETIMES I feel sorry for people on the North Shore
and elsewhere who are sending their kids to French immer-

sion schools.

Many of them are doing it
because they believe it’s good for
the youngsters to) know two
hangudges. Pair enough, But those
who think the students will get
federal jobs by learning French
are deluding themselves.

The way things are voing,
you're going to have to be French
to geton the federal payroll, not
just be able to speak Vrench.
Learning the language won't even
vet you a job as a. bully-boy
postman if'a French-wallah wants
it.

What is going on is as fine a bit
of racism as you'll find anywhere,
but as usual there's been very litte
news about it. It's not the kind of
thing Knowlton Nash talks about
on The National.

This further evidence of Ot
tawa’s prejudice ugainst English
Canada is to be found in the
Ministry of Energy, Mines and
Resources, which is headed by
that French windbay and bigot
Marcel Masse.

Masse has laid down that 26 per
cent of his ministry’s management
jobs and 25 per cent of its scien-
tific posts be filled with fran-
cophones during the next five
years. And by ‘francophones’
he doesn't mean ‘*French-
speaking’*. He means French.

Arthur Kroeger, Masse’s depu-
ty minister, has been kind enough
to explain his inaster’s policy.

To Masse, ‘‘francophone’’,
means a person raised in a home
where French was the first
language and for whom it remains
the first language. Kroeger added

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that no matter how well he
himself ‘earned French he would
not qualify as a francophone.

The minister’s purpose. of
course, ts 10 clear the was for
Canada’s New Class. regardless
of whether an Enelish-speaker is
beter qualified for the job. Blood
before ability. Phat's why Brian
Baloney tells the denizens of Baie-
Comeau on Canada Davy that
they’ve never had it so good.

Actually, there's nothing new in
this except that the policy is now
naked and unashamed. Previous-
ly. the pretence was that ‘bil-
ingualism’? was the big thing in
federal employment, although it’s
always been obvious that only in
Quebec do most Canadians have a
practical opportunity to be
bilingual.

Meanwhile, Pnglish-speakers in
Quebec are the new white niggers
of North America. They were
shoved aside long ago to make
room for those of the right
ancestry. But none of the Ouawa
politicians gives a damn about
that. They’re too busy looking for
French votes.

Fewer than one per cent of
workers in the Quebee civil service
have English as a first language,
even though one-fifth of the
population is of that category.
Quebec governments, separatist
or not, don’t even pay lip service
to equality for the “English” in
the job market.

As hinted above, no member of
parliament of whatever party has
had anything to say about that
outrage. They are too busy selling

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that
and
ingualism act is in the cards and
all the parts spokesmen are
cheering.

Might not John feener and td
Broadbent have something to say
about all this? Dom be silly,
They are big only when it comes
to rottea tuna fish, In the race to
grab othe Quebeo vote, they run
even faster than The Great
Baloney.

Quebee politicians, federal and
provincial, can do what they like.
But in English Canada you are a
“racist if you say two words
about how we are being shafted.

One or two western Fories have
spoken out, though. Not your
North Shore MPs, naturally. As
true Baloneyites they wourdn't
dream of doing such a thing. But
Alex Kindy, the Calgary East MP,
was quoted recently in) Western
Report magazine this way:

“As far as E know this is the
first time that race has been in-
troduced as an official element in
a broad national hiring
Strategy...By any practical
measure, this policy is racist. Lam
not just angry, 1am deeply shock-
ed. What are we doing to
Canada?”

Don’t sound so surprised, Alex.
We are only continuing the rot
that began in the mid 1960s when
on Quebee’s insistence we hauled
down the Red Ensign, replaced it
with the Sign of the Wimp, and
tried to rub out history. That’s
what we are doing.

To cement
new

out.
more, a

Meanwhile. parents, remember
that French Immersion is French
Hlusion. Remember, too, that you
read it here first.

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