Posted on 04/29/2010 3:44:18 PM PDT by JLS
Why should Canada’s single-language masses accept rule by their bilingual betters?
After two years, my campaign to rid the nation of its “human rights” commissions doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. So, in a spirit of rapprochement, let me try a new tack. Given that there seems to be insufficient actionable racism, sexism, homophobia and Islamophobia to justify the budgets of the “human rights” regime, how about a new ground for complaint? Unilinguaphobia.
As we know, every job that matters in Canada is bilingual, from her viceregal eminence in Rideau Hall down to the village postmistress in Pakenham, Ont. The House of Commons has just passed, all but unnoticed, a bill requiring that henceforth all Supreme Court justices should be able to hear cases in English and French without the aid of an interpreter. That’s to say, it’s not enough to be a distinguished jurist capable of a little light banter with a francophone colleague or a discussion of Denys Arcand’s oeuvre at a Canada Council cocktail party: you have to be able to understand highly technical legalisms in a language other than your own, unaided. As things stand, three of the nine judges have to come from Quebec. If the new bill takes effect, it’s hard to imagine any jurist west of Ontario ever meeting the qualifications.
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Steyn ping opportunity.
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Coming soon to this country.
Forcing bilingualism on their Supreme Court is the leftists way of keeping it liberal.
I blame Celine Dion.
Lots of jobs today in American communities require proficiency in Spanish. We should learn from the problems that Canadians have because of “two official languages”, not try to copy them.
Are unilanguaphobes just speechless reactionaries? LOL!
Monoglossophobia? Monoglottiphobia?
“Phobos” is a Greek word, so it takes Greek prefixes.
Hence, “triskaidekaphobia” rather than “tredecimphobia.”
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