A7-Wednesday, September 3, 1986 - North Shore News

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Quebec ignores language rights

Dear Editor:

Re: David W. Martin’s let-
ter (Aug. 17) advocating
French for British Colum-
bians. As a fluently bilingual
individual raised in Quebec
and living there for most of
my life, I -emigrated to
western Canada three years
ago because our rights were
being infringed upon. Let me
give you some examples. :

1. Quebec is not a bilin-
gual province, it is unil-
ingual, allowing French
alone to be spoken. This
demonstrates itself in many
ways. Overnight, any
employees, regardless of
how many years they have
been with the company, had
to learn French or be faced
with the loss of their jobs.
This is not an easy situation
to face for a man of 55, who

is looking forward to a com-
fortable retirement. Could
you learn another language
at that age?

2. Children coming into
the province from other
parts of the country had to
attend French schools. The
French were afraid that their
language would soon be ex-
tinct and their culture as
well, yet, they were doing to
others exactly what they did
not want to happen to their
people, eliminating English
from Quebec!

3. How many of our bright
young nurses were forced to
leave the province because
suddenly the fact that they
were excellent nurses did not
count anymore. But if they
could pass the exam in Fren-
ch, they could practise
medicine, how utterly ab-
surd! This law applied to all

young professionals about to
enter the work force. Their
knowledge and talent weze
no longer criteria for becom-
ing successful, but passing
the French exam was. Suill
pro-French, Mr. Martin?
these young people have
long since left Quebec. What
future is there for them?

4. All company names had
to be changed to French. No
longer could a family
business be known as “Jones’
Bakery”. It now had to be
“La Boulangerie Jones.”

5. Promotions came to
those, not who spoke Fren-
ch, but who had a French
name as well. The French
were going all out to “get”

ing was m French, I always
counted many French

among my friends; but when
it came down to cold hard
facts, I was not French, and
that is what counted most of
all. These are facts I have
listed, there are many more I
could tell you about. Many
of us, lived with this crisis all
the while wondering how the
federal government could
stand idly by and let this hap-
pen. After all, we were
Canadians; Quebec was the
birthplace of our children,
and yet, our rights were eras-
ed suddenly before our very
eyes. We left the place we
loved so very much.

Now three thousand miles
away you think Pm going to
speak French? Not on your
life, I have seen and lived
what can happen when one
extends too many rights and
privileges to a minority of
the population, and

Inspiring others to get more out of life

Dear Editor:

I have been teaching a
variety of subjects in Night
School Programs in Van-
couver and North Van-
couver for a number of
years. These courses were
what I would call the “how
to” variety in teaching
various skills to levels of

competency for employment
m a number of office
capabilities.

Of late, however, I have
become interested in pro-
moting what I term
“inspirational” courses, the
purpose of which is to in-
spire others to get more out

of their life experiences than
they are currently obtaining.
The course I specifically
have in mind is entitled just
that: “How To Get More Out
Of Your Life Experience”.
This course, for which I
have developed an outline
and “Lesson Pian”, will at-
tempt to encourage and in-
duce a participant to employ
self-analysis in determing the
status quo of his or her life
experience to date. It will
then, by means of a
questionnaire, help the par-
ticipant to explore his or her
potential for getting the most
out of his or her life ex-
perience henceforth.

Dolphin defender
merits respect

Dear Bditor:

I was disappointed in Bob
Hunter’s “Strictly Personal”
column entitled “Never
Trust A Dolphin” in a recent
issue of the Sunday News.

If Mr. Hunter wishes to
relate his hght-hearted antics
with dolphins, that's fine, but
1 don’t believe the same
whimsical approach affords
Dexter Cate the respect he
deserves. Mr Cate's brave

Whole LGH board should be

Dear Editor:
] am puzzled to read that if
you are “pro-life” you are

placed in a “single issuc”
catcgory
To me, being pro-life

means to have aie deep
reverence for the sacredness
of life from conception unul

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and unsclfish actions under
extremely dangerous. cir-
cumstances in Japanese
waters were, in my opinion,
truly heroic and I hope “old
age” will not “slow down” his
crusade toward ending the
near-sighted global manage-
ment that still allows our co-
inhabitants to be slaugh
tered

Tracy Marks
North Vancouver

death That not only in-
cludes the right to be born,
but the mght to be loved and
cared for, and when necdcd
the mght to quality medical
service at an affordable
price Finally, at an older
age, the right to die in peace
with dignity

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One of the beneficial
results of such a course
would be to give an uplift to

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of their opportunities to en-
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life experiences more.

In my view, this kind of a
course is needed just as
much as the “how to” in-
structional type of course
and, in times such as these,
could benefit participants of
all ages.

Drawing on my own life
experience, I have learned a
great deal about coping with
life, in spite of many adver-
sities and obstacles. Through

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pro-life

Is this not what hospital
care should be all about?
Then | would hope that the

people on the hospital board
are all “pro-life”

(Mrs.) Shiricy Wimbics
North Vancouver

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whom I might inspire to also

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Quebecois are but a small
minority of our population.
All the immigrants are
lumped into the “French
fact” of Quebec, when they
are, in fact, English, but the
Quebec government counts
them as being French.

Let us be a nation, strong,
and united, by one language,
as that is the only thing that
will unite us because we are
such a myriad of languages
and nations. Let us take an
example from our neighbors,
the Americans, no other na-
tion has their pride and uni-
ty. Let us be as wise as they
are and end this nonsense. If
more Canadians knew the
true facts of Quebec, I don’t
think they would be as
tolerant as they now are.

Barbara Eifler
North Vancouver

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I would like to generate
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North Vancouver

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