Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine months of 1977, Quebec suffered a net loss of 30,622 people. Some nervous English Quebeckers who decided to stay deposited their savings at banks in such U.S. border cities as Plattsburgh, N.Y., and Burlington, Vt. Last month a major uproar broke out when Canada's largest life insurance company, Sun Life Assurance Co. (assets: $5.5 billion), announced that it was moving its headquarters from Montreal to Toronto. After urgent personal pleas from Prime Minister Trudeau, Sun Life officials said that the firm and its 1,800 head-office employees would stay?for two more years...
...lowest: 15 per 1,000 people. The French-speaking proportion of Canada's population has dropped from 27% to 25% and is likely to decrease further. Since 1946, nearly 378,000 immigrants, mostly Greeks and Italians, have come to Montreal. In nine cases out of ten, the newcomers learned English, rather than French, as their new working language. That was especially painful to Quebeckers, who are proud to call Montreal the second-largest French-speaking city in the world...
...French-speaking sons and daughters of the province learn English?as they frequently must to gain jobs or advance in them ?they begin to be weaned from their native language. Outside Quebec, Canada's scattered French-speaking minority regularly loses a large part of its younger generation to English-speaking North America. Says Quebecois Poet Fernand Ouellette: "In a milieu of bilingualism, there is no coexistence, there is only a continuous aggression of the language of the majority." Quebecois are particularly bitter because little effort is given to preserving their language in the rest of Canada. Quebec has traditionally...
...Québécois solution to the language issue has been to preserve French by restricting the use of English. A draconian law known as Bill 101, approved by the legislative assembly last August, makes French the only "official" language in Quebec.* Under its terms, all business with the provincial government must be conducted in French. All professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, must display "appropriate" fluency in order to practice in Quebec. Corporations will be monitored by a government board to ensure that French becomes the "language of work." To pacify English-speaking Big Business, the Quebec government has promised...
...most controversial part of the law deals with education. It radically limits the right of new residents of Quebec?including Canadians coming from predominantly English-speaking provinces?to send their children to English-speaking schools. Among Quebeckers, only a student with at least one parent who attended Anglophone institutions can attend; all others must learn in French...