The Nanny State is alive & well in Canuckistan, even under a “conservative” (aka CINO) government. 🙁
56 Replies to “The Tories’ Bilingual Boondoggle”
Just had some “The Laughing Cow” cheeze, and the French version just doesn’t do it:
“La Vache qui rit” or the The Cow that laughs…
ET: What? Maple syrup?
Don’t forget poutine…
Okay, so let me see if I’ve got this right… It doesn’t matter if we elect a majority Government, whether Conservative or not, that Government would be helpless to depose, or even to alter the OLA? Trudeaus Charter is clearly about entrenching his OLA, where unelected judges are free to shape social policy, and pick and choose which rights are “guaranteed” and which are not.. ie. group rights over-ride every other right, including section 2.b individual rights. So, because the OLA is to be “referenced” within Trudeaus imposed Charter at no time in the future would an elected Government be able to depose of the OLA with a simple majority in the House and Senate, and that same Government would also be restricted from even altering the OLA? This is even crazier and more tyrannical then I thought! Quebec is officially uni-lingual french and if you take them out of the equation french talkers would only make up 2% of the population. How is this useful? Now I understand why the federal Government has never done a complete and thorough auditing on the actual costs of forced french. IMO, the Government has to begin to educate the public on the disease of “bilingualism” and it’s costs, it’s exclusivity and it’s tyrannical nature. I refuse to believe that we are hopelessly impotent to force change. Does anyone know of any other Government imposed legislation that is restricted from any future change? Maybe it’s time for a return to the Reform Party.
sean- again, bilingualism is not a rule of law passed by the legislature. It’s in the Constitution. Therefore even if a political party has ALL the seats in the House, it cannot undo the Constitution.
The amending process to the Constition is clear. It’s in the Constitution. Section 38 as I outlined above.
The Charter, which is essentially about and only about bilingualism, is a part of the Constitution and was ratified by all provinces except for Quebec. To undo the bilingual rule, the House, the Senate and ALL provincial legislatures would have to pass it. The Constitution specifically says that changes to ‘the use of the official languages’ can only be changed by unanimous consent of ALL provinces.
Such an agenda is effectively impossible. Canadians in 1982, using the same process of House, Senate and all provincial legislatures (except for Quebec), passed the Constitution.
What Canadians can do is to talk about this, debate whether they accept the possibly unintended results, where 80% of the population is barred from working in the federal government, where we have set up an isolate mandarin class in Montreal-Ottawa-Hull, and where we locked ourselves into enormous costs for this ‘service’.
I appreciate the info ET… what a staggering mess. It looks like we’re stuck with this poisonous pill for at least the foreseeable future. Two things come to mind…. 1. This needs to be debated on a national scale before the majority of Canadians are forever imprisoned into a perpetual second class status… and 2. Trudeau was an even bigger deranged asshole then I previously knew. Cheers.
As far as I can tell there is nothing in the constitution obliging bilingualism outside of government, so this mess is completely in Tory hands.
Just had some “The Laughing Cow” cheeze, and the French version just doesn’t do it:
“La Vache qui rit” or the The Cow that laughs…
ET: What? Maple syrup?
Don’t forget poutine…
Okay, so let me see if I’ve got this right… It doesn’t matter if we elect a majority Government, whether Conservative or not, that Government would be helpless to depose, or even to alter the OLA? Trudeaus Charter is clearly about entrenching his OLA, where unelected judges are free to shape social policy, and pick and choose which rights are “guaranteed” and which are not.. ie. group rights over-ride every other right, including section 2.b individual rights. So, because the OLA is to be “referenced” within Trudeaus imposed Charter at no time in the future would an elected Government be able to depose of the OLA with a simple majority in the House and Senate, and that same Government would also be restricted from even altering the OLA? This is even crazier and more tyrannical then I thought! Quebec is officially uni-lingual french and if you take them out of the equation french talkers would only make up 2% of the population. How is this useful? Now I understand why the federal Government has never done a complete and thorough auditing on the actual costs of forced french. IMO, the Government has to begin to educate the public on the disease of “bilingualism” and it’s costs, it’s exclusivity and it’s tyrannical nature. I refuse to believe that we are hopelessly impotent to force change. Does anyone know of any other Government imposed legislation that is restricted from any future change? Maybe it’s time for a return to the Reform Party.
sean- again, bilingualism is not a rule of law passed by the legislature. It’s in the Constitution. Therefore even if a political party has ALL the seats in the House, it cannot undo the Constitution.
The amending process to the Constition is clear. It’s in the Constitution. Section 38 as I outlined above.
The Charter, which is essentially about and only about bilingualism, is a part of the Constitution and was ratified by all provinces except for Quebec. To undo the bilingual rule, the House, the Senate and ALL provincial legislatures would have to pass it. The Constitution specifically says that changes to ‘the use of the official languages’ can only be changed by unanimous consent of ALL provinces.
Such an agenda is effectively impossible. Canadians in 1982, using the same process of House, Senate and all provincial legislatures (except for Quebec), passed the Constitution.
What Canadians can do is to talk about this, debate whether they accept the possibly unintended results, where 80% of the population is barred from working in the federal government, where we have set up an isolate mandarin class in Montreal-Ottawa-Hull, and where we locked ourselves into enormous costs for this ‘service’.
I appreciate the info ET… what a staggering mess. It looks like we’re stuck with this poisonous pill for at least the foreseeable future. Two things come to mind…. 1. This needs to be debated on a national scale before the majority of Canadians are forever imprisoned into a perpetual second class status… and 2. Trudeau was an even bigger deranged asshole then I previously knew. Cheers.
As far as I can tell there is nothing in the constitution obliging bilingualism outside of government, so this mess is completely in Tory hands.