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Actually the estimates are quite accurate. What isn't is where the money is going. No one seems to know. Kinda like Adscam but legal.A friend of the family is a senator (and yes we argue all the time that the senate should be abolished, me in favour, him obviously not) and the amounts of money to duplicate everything into French is unbelievably astronomical. Just the translation cost is enormous.I can't remember the figures but it is huge.
I'm not against bilingualism, but rather support it where it is warranted, just like the City of Ottawa's bilingualism policy, at least as of today. What does intrigue me is that it is no ones fault but the French in Quebec that they are losing their mother tongue. If they choose to speak English rather than French, why should every Canadian pay for it? We don't care if Canadian Italians, Polish, Japanese etc or even Native Canadians lose their language. Hell we don't care about Native Canadians period. So they weren't the founding cultures with exception to the Natives. Who cares?
But then this can digress into who is distinct and who isn't and I've said my piece concerning that. The only thing that comes from that is that some are more equal than others
Anyways my apology for putting this thread on another track. Bob Biter don't bite my head off. I'm not against you or Quebecers. Would just like to see Canada the best it can be without all the jockeying for the pinnacle position in terms of who deserves what and how much.
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" In Canada, you can tell the most blatant lie in a calm voice, and people will believe you over someone who's a little passionate about the truth." David Warren, Western Standard.
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