Canadians for Language Fairness’s response

We have been notified that petitions that collect names only electronically will not be accepted by the City of Ottawa. To be effective in our quest to stop the City from capitulating to the French pressure groups, we need to submit hard-copy petitions. In view of this fact, would you please contact Kim McConnell at kimlian@bellnet.ca for a copy of the new petition that is addressed directly to the City of Ottawa. We will be very pleased to send you a copy of the petition which will have spaces for 10 signatures for you to help us collect hard-copy signatures.

The French pressure groups (made up of French-speakers from the Academia as well as from the political arena in Ontario) are determined to make Ottawa officially bilingual by 2017, to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Confederation. So far, the Mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson, is resisting the pressure because he knows that official bilingual status for the City will enable the French special- interest groups to use the courts to force MORE French onto the Citizens of Ottawa - more French-only recreation groups, more French-only community-centres, more support for French businesses, more enforced translation of city documents, and on and on. There are only 14-15% French-speakers in Ottawa and most of the speak English. The City is already running a big deficit $41 Million and a long-term debt of $1.65 Billion. Do we need to continue using tax-payers' scarce dollars to create an elite based on a minority language?

Please help us collect hard-copy signatures by contacting me at kimlian@bellnet.ca. THANK YOU!!!