| Bilingualism
As a Canadian I have both pro and con views regarding bilinugualism. On the one hand I would support bilingualism simply because Canada was founded by two nations: the British Empire and France. On the other hand my ancestors within the British Empire defeated the French at Fortress Quebec thereby wiping out the French as the sole contributor to Canadian history. I would argue that French should have been suppressed then as a viable culture during the development of British North America thereby preventing the difficulties my county experiences with bilingualism every day. Due to having Great Britain as a civilising influence of its member colonies other cultures were allowed to flourish in hindsight a sad mistake. We had conquered the French. They should have been given two choices: adapt to Brtiish culture and allow yourselves to be assimilated accordingly or leave the colonies. Since the British were a fair and compassionate imperial peoples the French were never offered either of the two options which some would consider evil. As a result, our province of Quebec has become Canada's spoiled brat. Canada enforces a bilingual policy an Quebec enforces a unilingual policy (one may only speak French there). Allowing French to thrive within Canada's borders is a mistake. You Americans would be well-advised to consider Canada's problems with bilingualism. Now we must deal with immigrants who are even today demanding government services in their respective languages (Chinese, Hindi, Farsi, Arabic, Punjabi etc.) which costs my country billions. Not MILLIONS but BILLIONS of dollars. Bilingualism is dangerous in that it leads to multiculturalism. Those non-British and non-French immigrants to Canada believed that since the French were allowed to keep their culture and language they should be given the same freedoms. Another mistake. Now our cities are ghettoised, split into sections by race. You have your Chinese sector, your Pakistani sector, your Indian sector etc. The list goes on. This creates divisions within our nation state. Crime is rampant in our cities at record levels never seen before the advent of multiculturalism. Our jails are filled with people who were never even born in Canada and who cannot utter a word of English. How does a nation remain united with the existence of such rampant multiculturalism. Those newcomers must be made to adapt to the society in which they emigrate. If they fail to do so then they must be removed from the country. We should never allow division within our borders. Bilingualism and multiculturalism causes this division. Recently in Canada a child of Sikh parents was given the right to wear a dagger (kirpan) to our schools because his religion demands it of him. Yet if say a child of the same age who is of Anglo-Saxon extraction ever decided to arrive at the same school with the same dagger he would be looking at between 3-5 years behind bars. This is fair? Many Canadians were upset. They believed this to be a case of one individual receiving more rights than another within the borders of the same country and they were correct in that belief. All Canadians should be required to abide by exactly the same rules. Quebec as a French-dominated province disallows corporations from completing their business dealings in English. As a result many corporations have removed themselves from Quebec. This has raised the ire of many French-Canadians as job losses result. They lash out at those corporations who have done the wise thing and removed their business from Quebec. They are lashing out at the wrong people. They should be lashing out at their own provincial government. Look at Canada's Western provinces. Literally no one speaks French out beyond the borders of Ontario yet bilingualism is forced upon those provinces. Those provinces become angry at this and they are right to be as it is a costly policy which benefits no one. Canada could count on one hand the number of individuals west of Ontario's border who consider French as their mother tongue. Canada has experienced constitutional difficulties thanks to bilingualism. Quebec has not even signed our constitution as they demand to be treated differently from the other Canadian provinces. They wish to have 'distinct society' placed within our constitution as regards Quebec. This clearly elevates them above the rest of Canada. Naturally the remaining provinces refused to sign a constitution that would allow Quebec to be considered a better society. Quebec constantly threatens to split up my country by continuing to have separatist referendums. They came close to winning the referendum the last time. Canada even has a national party whose sole raison-d'etre is the removal of our province of Quebec from Confederation. This party is called the Bloc Quebecois. Their mandate is separation from the rest of Canada. In many countries such a party would be considered traitors. I deem the Bloc Quebecois to be an illegal and traitorous organisation and should be treated as such. By this I mean the entire party should be tossed into the slammer and taught a lesson they would soon never forget. Our military should be moved to the borders of Quebec. We conquered the French in Quebec once before and we can do so again. This is exactly what we should do if ever Quebec actually goes ahead with the process of secession. Please Americans. Do not call me Hitler for you did exactly the same thing when your southern states attempted to secede. You fought a bloody Civil War so no hypocritical statements from you. In summation bilingualism and multiculturalism are evil and must be crushed. They lead to division and antipathy amonst the citizens of a free and sovereign nation. You Americans would be well-advised to take Canada's experiences into consideration.
SaintLucifer
The Dark Saint |