Posted by Marjon Pride on 1/27/2002, 11:28 pm Jules Leger in 1968 during a farewell luncheon speech prior to his departure as Canadas new Ambassador to France: "The Canadian Government is now engaged in a national task of spreading the French language across the length and breadth of the country." Jean Luc Pepin, Minister of Industry, Trade & Commerce, in 1970: "We ourselves were a small group, Trudueau, Pelletier, Marchand, Lalonde, Chretien, myself, and a few people in the civil service, say 50 all told.....we were bringing off a revolution. We held the key posts. We were making the civil service, kicking and screaming all the time, bilingual. We were a well organized group of revolutionaries, just like them* but working in a different way, of course." (*reference to the FLQ) Leo Cadieux, Ambassador to France, in 1973 speaking to the French National Assembly: "Canada is going to be a French-speaking nation from coast to coast, and anyone who is opposed to this is opposed to the best interest of Canada." Serge Joyal, Secretary of State, in 1982: "Everything we undertake and everything we are doing to make Canada a French state is part of a venture I have shared for many years with a number of people. The idea, the challenge, of making Canada a French country both inside and outside Quebec....an idea that some people consider a bit crazy....is something a little beyond the ordinary imagination." Trudeau, Parliamentary Secretary to PM Lester Pearson, in 1966: "There is no way two ethnic groups in one country can be made equal before the law....and to say it is possible, is to sow the seeds of destruction." (Two years later he went on to make French and English equal before the law.) Through Orders-in-Council and regulations covering the OLA processes which normally avoid Parliamentary scrutiny -- the number of federal servants who must be bilingual has, over the years, continuously escalated.. Information recently released by Statistics Canada and disclosed in the House of Commons by Canadian Alliance MP, Jim Pankiw, reveals that "the percentage of public service jobs filled by anglophones in the Ottawa area during the past 10 years had declined from 68% to 59%." Pankiw suggested "the Governments hiring policies amounted to systemic discrimination against anglophones and that forced bilingualism is costly, discriminatory and a source of national divisiveness and disunity." If anglophone numbers have declined, obviously francophone numbers have increased from 32% to 41%. Considering that francophones make up less than 25% of Canadas population, employment of francophones in Ottawas corridors of power is excessively disproportionate. The StatsCan figures reveals how Trudeaus real objective for introducing the OLA is being realized probably beyond his wildest expectations. As for the OLA serving the cause of national unity, how can one reconcile that with the fact that, since its introduction, Quebec has declared itself officially unilingual-French and successive Quebec governments, with increasing fervor, have sought separation from Canada. Outside Quebec, official-bilingualism has sorely divided the nation, embittering anglophone/francophone intercourse and causing divisions within the anglophone community itself. I believe the latter division is caused through the majority of Canadians not comprehending the difference between "bilingualism" and "official-bilingualism". Bilingualism in respect to any two languages is and would be a good and positive goal for all Canadians. But official-bilingualism is a different breed of cat; official-bilingualism is imposed social engineering designed to achieve a purely political goal, it is enforced by an Official Language Commissioner, and it benefits only one small ethnic minority and discriminates against all others. The beneficiaries of official-bilingualism are essentially the relatively small number of francophones employed by the Federal Government and francophones living outside the borders of Quebec perhaps 2% of Canadas population. As a veteran of WWII and The Korean Campaign (RCAF, pilot) I feel an obligation to alert all anglophone patriots that their Canada is under attack by a covert enemy, one just as determined as was the enemy against which my fallen comrades-in-arms fought long ago our enemys objective is a francophone-dominated government and being aligned with France on the international scene. Our enemy is a cadre of conspirators employed all throughout the Government domain working to undermine the countrys British heritage while promoting the French; this cadre of conspirators over the years has won battles in getting amendments to the Constitution of Canada, and won squirmishes by the injudicious application of the OLA regulations. The push for a French Canada can be seen in: the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (a charter which limits an individuals rights and freedoms and reflective of Quebecs and Frances civil law; prior to the Charter we enjoyed unlimited rights and freedoms under British common law); the metric system; promotion of French-immersion schools; generous financial support for French enclaves in the provinces; creation of French enclaves in provinces by dispersing Departments into provinces; hosting francophonie summits here in Canada and participating in them overseas; changing names of Government Departments and Crown Corporations to a more French way of speaking (Ministry of ...., Air Canada, Canada Post, etc.); coercing provinces and cities to adopt official-bilingualism (New Brunswick succumbed several years ago and, very recently, the new regional district of Ottawa); etc, etc. Whether we unilingual anglophones acknowledge it or not, we have become 2nd-class citizens of Canada I say that because employment, or an unfettered career, in all areas under Federal Government control is now almost-surely denied us -- bilingual francophones and a few bilingual anglophones are the ones favored for Federal employment. Soon, unless something drastic is done to stop it, we will be administered federally exclusively by francophone bureaucrats. Should you feel, as I do, that the vast majority of Canadians are being blind-sided through a conspiracy aimed at reversing the victory won on the Plains of Abraham, I urge you to write, postage-free, to your Member of Parliament (House of Commons, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6), enclose this letter, and demand that he/she take a firm stand against official-bilingualism.
Would you not think its time to end a Federal spending program that has totally failed to achieve its stated objective and has, so far in its lifetime, cost taxpayers in excess of $60 billion ($60,000,000,000), continues to cost about $4 billion ($4,000,000,000) a year, benefits only a minute minority of the population while it discriminates against the majority, has deprived tens of thousands of unilingual anglophones the opportunity of employment or an unrestricted career in the Federal domain, and has had a very divisive effect across the entire nation. The program Im talking about is commonly known as official-bilingualism, the fruit of the Official Languages Act. Unfortunately, think what we might, it will not be ended soon. Why not?
Let me tell you something about the origin of The Official Languages Act (OLA). Put forward by Trudeau in 1968 as being an essential vehicle to foster national unity, the proposed OLA met with considerable opposition. Swayed, however, by Trudeaus brilliant oratory and his repeated assurances that no more than 10% of all federal servants would have to become bilingual in order that francophones might be served by federal departments in their own language, sufficient numbers of anglophone parliamentarians eventually voted in favour of the proposed legislation for it to become a law of the land. What was unknown at the time, and perhaps is still unknown to the vast majority of Canadians, was that Trudeaus motive in proposing the OLA was not to promote national unity at all. Trudeaus real motive was to launch a vehicle with potential for establishing an overwhelming francophone presence within the Federal hierarchy by which his social-engineering dreams might be realized.. To lend credibility to that statement, let me offer five well-documented quotes:
Unfortunately space precludes me from including several more statements, and details of activities, which give further rock-solid evidence of the grand conspiracy leading to our present-day situation.
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