Joyce WrightHeathland NB, Canada
26 Jul 2013
Thank you all...but we cannot stop! Another petition has been started, asking the government to maintain the demand for a 50% bilingual workforce. That petition mentions me by name, and says I make believe that the Anglophones are being discriminated against. It also says that this effort demonstrates a willingness of individuals and small groups to reverse the historic rights of Acadian New Brunswick, and that bilingualism is a great benefit for all. This petition is not trying to reverse anyone's rights; it is trying to maintain the rights of the English-only to work and advance in the civil service, and end a discriminatory hiring mandate which is NOT a benefit. Equality means "it doesn't matter", just like skin color and ethnicity don't matter; the best person gets the job. No job should require bilingualism unless the daily use of both official languages is involved in performing the job's functions. It shouldn't be "just in case" someone wants to speak the other language!
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