IS THERE any likelihood thal Quebec will gather up its -
marbles and go, thus Freeing the rest of the country from an
unwanted and expensive yolk? One fears not, but hopes so.

“ Most of us woulda’i even wave goodbye.

Liberals were Hiberal.

The Great Baloncy, meanwhile,
has paid no more at ention, ta'the
language fascism being practised: in
Quebec than if it were happening:

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“Think of the advantages of such
a move: No more Brian Baloneys.
He could go back to talking - :
French where they really ap-
pteciate it, instead of yakking out.
of both sides of his mouth in
Parliament: No more Pierre
Trudeaus, cither.

If Quebec went, we would float
along like a ship that has suddenly
sailed out of a storm. Instead of an
ungovernable mess, we would have
the relative quict of left and right
bashing each other i in plain
English.

These’ subversive thoughts spring

_ from the latest fuss over official
~ bilingualism in Saskatchewan, God
bless Premicr Grant Devine for

as telling the French in his province

“to go and get stuffed. For where
-else in the warid are states or pro-
-\vinces required to re-write the laws
“back to the:19th century inthe —

~. language of tiny minorities?
- Saskatchewan’s revolt against
“the unhatural that is in danger of
- becoming the supernatural is a sign
_, that English Canada ain’ 1 quite:
dead. The revolt of the . .
, “dinosaurs” in the heart of: Le

7 Parliamentary Balonsyland o on the’ ‘o.: Tories denounced him. ata policy:
> convention. , :

' Bilt C-72 issue is anothers sign. The’
“refusal of the Getty government in”

‘Alberta to allow some NDP nut to .

address the legislature i in French
_ was yet a third. The fi. att against

The fact is that.English Canada
has been losing ever since the
1960s, when as the result of silly

+ guilt feclings, it accepted official ©

bilingualism, at least on the federal
level. 1 am reminded of France in
the 1930s, when left-wing pro-
paganda paved the way for col.
lapse in the 1940s,

Retreat has been our motto,
And then more retreat. So much so
that the national motio should be
changed from Ad Mari Ad Usque

“s (From Sea To Sea) to ‘We Sur-

render.””
The arrogance of the French side
in this contest is what can be ex-

’ pected when our side shows no

guts. Thus, when the C-72 thing
flared up, some Quebec MPs said
they would switch to the .
separatists if the bill was changed ©
to satisfy the protests.

The same cries are being heard
now aver Saskatchewan. And
that’s not all, When Languages -

Commissioner C' Iberville Fartier at

"Tet the genic out of the bottle by
saying that Quebec had humiifated .

_ English-speakers by. denying stem

: their language rights, 800 Qusbe¢e

In the Quebec’ legislature '
(known, grandiloquently,'as the >
‘National. Assembly, if } you. please)
every member backed a separatist :

“motion of censure, The Bourassa

government ¢ even strengthened it,
_ dust in case anyone got the idea the.”

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In case you've forgotten, that Vs
includes no English signs in public, .
places, no English business signs,
restrictions on the teaching of
English in the schools, and the vir-
tual exclusion of Anglos from the
civil. service. Unilingualism, in
fact, even though Quebec has
nearly a million Anglos. (There ;
would have been more,, but at least
80,000 have Ieft in disgust — ref-
ugees in their own country.),

It’s the numbers that matter.
There might be something to be
said for official bilingualism if
Anglos and Francos were fairly
evenly divided in Canada, as
Afrikaners and Anglos arc in
South Africa...”

But in Saskatchewan there are
fo mere than 30,000 Francos, all
of whom speak, English as well as
anyone, it's the same in Manitoba .
and Alberta, but that didn't stop
the Supreme Court from ruling | *
that all the Manitoba laws back to
‘the 1890s have to he re- written in
French.

Was there ever a bigger joke?

/ Absurd though this brou-haha. <°
may be, we still have the likes of

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_ made sense. But he can't kiss ©
enough bums in Quebec. Back |
home in Saskatchewan, though,

. the NDP. are playing it cool. They :,

know when the jig is up...
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