精华 转篇Ottawa Sun上的文章，外加俺的感想

[649]

呵呵，我所知道的一切都是hearsay，你的就是fact，你就是法官， OK？ 你在Quebec 住了这么长时间，我绝不相信你一点也没听说过他们跟法国法语的比较！

更奇怪的是你说没有听到过有关双语的complaints，你好象是刚刚来加拿大？

还有，看你帖子，好象还觉得bilingualism是什么好事，别还是那么单纯好不好？
混那么长时间还不晓得政客的游戏，那是法国佬和英国佬打斗的结果。

 

[Xiaomimi]

Don't you think it is a better idea for them to just leave Canada ? This combination of Quebec and Canada is unnatural and unhealthy for both.

But what truely disappointed me is why the 24 million English Canadian would associate with the 7 million Quebecois who are very very different people, rather than the 290 million English speaking people down South who are their true brothers and sisters.

最初由 渐渐 发布
Fine, I'll stop arguing with you, since everything you do "know" is hearsay. I'd lived in Quebec for 11 years, I think I know a little bit about how Francophones feel about their own language. Why don't you let those "接触过一些Francophone" come and argue with me.

Like anything else, bilingualism costs money for sure, whether it is worth it to continue is another topic. The wide range of services aimed to help immigrants to better adapt to Canada also costs money, I rarely hear any complaints from any Chinese on that. What you are trying to do here is to use money as the only measurement of goodness: if it costs money AND if you can't be the beneficiary of such spending, then it's bad; otherwise yahoo bring it on! In other words, you don't really care if bilingualism is justified or not, you are disatisfied only because you are not getting a piece of that pie.

 

[oread]

This is why.

 

[lazy susan]

Living in Canada, English is a must. As a Chinese, Chinese is a must. French? If he's interested, why not. if he's not interested, why bother?

 

[649]

相比之下，丫丫说话比较客观， 补充一个资料，不一定最新。

"...
Sixty-three percent of Canadians think bilingualism in Canada is not working. Twenty-two percent think it is a success; 15% don't know.
..."

-- <<Canadian Culture>>

 

[江声浩荡]

最初由 丫丫 发布
在此更正一个前贴中的错误信息。
经过询问，住在魁省的加拿大公民的子女不限制上法语学校，双语学校甚至英语学校自由选----这和对非英语母语的移民家庭要求不同。
以免误导大家，特此补充说明。

"The Economist" on "Quebec Language Law 101"
"Passed in 1977, this law has made French the first language of government, business and education. Only children who have a parent who was educated in English in Canada can attend an English-speaking public school; all others, including immigrants from Britain, must study in French―or in private schools."

全文见：http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3546031

 

[oread]

En na, one of the parents must have received HIGH SCHOOL education in English for their children to be able to go to a public English high school in Quebec. No restrictions on choices of CEGEP (college) or university.

 

[Teddy]

Personally, I think that Mandarin is much more important than French for our Chinese kids.