We have reached 1500 signatures!!

Once again, I must say THANK YOU! These past 24 have seen an incredible jump in the spread of the petition, and it's because all of you care! NB's 2011 workforce profile showed that NB had 46,788 public service employees as of Dec. 31/11. That number doesn't even include those who work for the Crown Corporations (Ambulance NB - about 1,000 employees, NB Power - over 2,500, NB Liquor, Invest NB, etc.). A 50% bilingual workforce, just in those sectors covered in the profile, means 23,394 positions would be filled from our bilingual population. If that actually happens, 9.51% of the bilingual population would be employed by the government while only 4.7% of both English-only and French-only would be employed by the government. That is blatant discrimination, and I can't understand why our government doesn't care! Please take a moment to start a paper petition and an e-mail campaign to your own MLA even as this one grows. Go to www1.gnb.ca/legis/bio1/index-e.asp to find your MLA.