No English for you

Posted By: Angelica Montgomery · 3/1/2013 3:46:00 PM

Liberals say Francophone children are losing their chance to learn English.

A teacher's union says the PQ plans to put an end to an intensive English program. The Charest government had planned to provide schooling to every Francophone student in the sixth grade.

The education minister has yet to confirm the rumour, but the Liberal primary and secondary education critic calls the report unsettling.

"What is the PQ doing to the French students? Keeping them in a certain way so that they don't really know English and then are closed up to the world? I'm starting to be worried about that," says Francine Charbonneau.

Minister Marie Malavoy's office is denying another rumour, that the intensive program might be transferred into the high school system. Her spokesperson says, though, that the idea of having high school graduates that can speak English with ease is an objective that's been discussed.

The PQ says it will introduce a different plan for teaching English in the Francophone system within the next two weeks.

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  1. Peter posted on 03/01/2013 05:26 PM
    I dare anyone to come up with a good reason not to learn more than one language.

    It's bad enough the French spoken in Quebec in general is so poor that Quebecois (or Joile) as a language to French is the equivalent of what Ebonics is to English.

    Add to that the fact that the younger you learn a language the better/easier it comes to you.

    I can't wait to see how @le Quebecois tries to justify this one
  2. Steven posted on 03/01/2013 05:53 PM
    LOL bill 101 I love it keep the french people down ! hey they voted this let them only speak french ! right on my kids will get the better job they will work for my kids one day ! hehe goofs !
  3. Murray posted on 03/01/2013 05:54 PM
    Why do the Quebecois need to speak English? French is the official language of Quebec..

    In 10 yrs when Quebec will be poorer than Haiti perhaps the attitude will change.

    If not its no big deal, as Canada will need low cost labourers to shovel manure, and it costs less to transport the workers from Quebec, than from Haiti,
  4. American Observer posted on 03/01/2013 07:01 PM
    This is excellent news for anyone English living in Quebec. You certainly won't have any competition for jobs from the lot of lesser educated, uni-lingual French workers that the PQ government is hoping to manufacture with its French only policies. There will be few options and little hope of a bright future for the generation of French Quebecers that grow up under this government. If you want a vibrant, competitive population, you encourage them to learn as many languages and and many skills as possible. If you prefer an uneducated ghetto society, then watch the PQ build one in Quebec. If you are English and living in Quebec, you have the option to leave. If you are French, you don't have that luxury unless you finally take a stand and say "enough is enough". Do your kids a favor and move out of Quebec and give them the opportunity to make a better life and pursue their dreams in a place where they are encouraged to learn languages and culture as opposed to learning prejudice and hate from the PQ and its supporters.
  5. Theo posted on 03/01/2013 10:20 PM
    No big deal if Francophone children don't learn English. When they grow up they can be surly metro ticket-takers and bus drivers.
  6. Rudolph S posted on 03/02/2013 07:13 AM
    of course, leave em dumb, uneducated and barefoot on the Farm,like Duplessis wanted le vrai quebecois to be, as long as the Maroise's et al have a good education, send their children to english private schools and can live in big mansions on Isle Bizard, Funny she went banging on pots for the students to make them beliefe she cares...apres les fleurs--voila le pot... Leo and his sprouting beard gang did not get kisses in this act...
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