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Ml mailbox ><] English NOT a ‘second language’

Dear Editor: language’ for ime,

Can you believe our B.C. Hon. dack Davis, M.L.A,. Ministry of Education peo- North Vanceuver-Seymour ple? According to them English is ‘ta second language’ not ‘the’ first language or even ‘the’ se- cond Janguage behind French but a Jangauge second to any other Janguage you want to name.

In case our bureaucrats have missed it English is the modern communicator's linguafranca. It is the language most commonly us- ed by the world's leading scientists, industrialists, sociologists. ft is one of Canada’s two official languages, English and French, and the one in which all our provincial laws are phrased.

If 1 had my way English would be ‘the first language of B.C." Immigrant children would go to classes to learn our common language. No “English as a second

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