From: J. Wiehe (j.wiehe@sympatico.ca)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 10:59:25 PDT
You're talking about the language police that checks the
commercial signs.
Jim Wiehe VA3JHW
j.wiehe@sympatico.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Forster" <jfor@quik.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 13:07
Subject: Re: [MV] french
> I spent many years in Montreal and saw it change from a cosmopolitan city to a
> ghetto, largely due to an aggressive campaign to make French pervasive and to
> stamp out all vestiges of English. EVERYTHING had to be in French, with the
> French version in bigger print. English was optional.
>
> It was an utter disaster. I voted with my feet, as did virtually all my friends.
> Now Toronto is dynamic, and Montreal is a backwater. It's a lesson that could
> well be learned in the USA, especially in the south west. It used to be that
> people wanted to be Americans, now it xxxx-Americans.
>
> -John
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