CFN – Cornwall City Hall did the back door shuffle and have agreed to send $50K to fund the study that the committee above have asked to have commissioned.
Little has been said about their vision; but CFN has been digging and could the reason for the secrecy simply be that Cornwall wishes to establish a French University? And if so why the secrecy? Are the politicians which chiefly make up this group concerned about a back lash from the public for spending public tax dollars on such a project.
Many don’t realize that there is a major regional push to attract disgruntled Francophones from Quebec to Cornwall and it makes some sense in that with Quebec’s economic and political woes an opportunity to attract young families is there. Couple that with a desire politically to have a French University in Ontario and you have a recipe for something that could attract people and money to Cornwall.
Lapresse recently ran a piece discussing Cornwall. LINK The article discussed a drop in Francophones from 30 to 26% and the concerns of some of the locals. Councilor Maurice Dupelle was quoted, but most of the quotes came from Georgette Sauve of the SD&G ACFO)
Translated quote:
Francophone immigration is one of the keys. We need new blood to maintain an acceptable level of French in Cornwall, “said the President.
Education, employability and apparently French Education were primary concerns.
“We must put pressure on elected officials to implement policies to facilitate the immigration of French here. Employers also have a role to play. Finally, the number of allophones who turns aside default the English school system is also a big problem that we have identified, “says the president of the ACFO-SDG, Georgette Sauvé.
It was also discussed on TFO’s 360 show. CLICK to watch VIDEO REPORT.
The question many will be asking is why all the secrecy and why not have open discussion by politicians in the community rather than writing cheques and socially engineering our region? After all it’s everyone’s tax dollars and we all live here. Surely the public should have some say in some of these decisions?
We already have the stench of having two of the committee members, Mayor Kilger and Councilor Elaine MacDonald on the committee not recusing themselves from discussion or voting on the issue which violates number 2 of their Declaration of Office.
2. I have not received and will not receive any payment or reward, or promise thereof, for the
exercise of this office in a biased, corrupt or in any other improper manner.
Clearly there is a reward when you as a member of a group ask for cash from city hall? You have achieved a goal which is of course a reward.
Again, nothing against having a French University in Cornwall, or French in general, but these processes and forcing the public to pay for freight without public consultation surely isn’t Democratic, is it? And while having a University isn’t a bad thing how many of these French Uni grads would be staying in Cornwall?
What do you think CFN viewers? You can post your comments below.
See folks……..this is Howard playing his games again.
My response to Rosie was. Rosie to be honest with, I can’t answer your first question because I don’t know the answer. I would imagine it would be like the school system where the teacher pays.
Here is the piper’s reply to my post: Stella when CCH sends their employee’s to be tested at new avenues it is the hospital and therefore the taxpayers that foot the bill .
So therefore you are wrong again -get used to it ….being wrong.
After me saying to Rosie, I could not answer her questions, the head chef and bottle washer, the g himself says I am wrong again.
Typical of the g to put words in people’s mouth and twist things to suit his radical aganda. He does this all the time……pathetic.
Howard…you are fooling no one but yourself **smile**
stellabystarlight
April 15, 2013 at 7:46 am
“The silly videos, fabricated and exagerated stories, put downs and their hatred towards the french is something to be concerned about.”
So the news are fabricating the stories ,this is not the hatred towards the french but the other way around .
Quebec policies with regards to language are creating the divide these video’s and news articles only provide the proof of this.
“The most disgusting thing is how this group want to divide this country.”
Once again its the SEPARATISTS (a political party in power) that wish to divide the country -put your blame there !
“If the {MODERATED} would do what they have to do and leave the peace loving people of this country alone, Canada would remain the envy of the world. Nope they don’t want that, they want to rule, divide and conquer……..as simple as that.”
PROPAGANDA ,PROPAGANDA,PROPAGANDA .
piper wrote: Once again its the SEPARATISTS (a political party in power) that wish to divide the country -put your blame there !
Does the name “peter” ring a bell? What about the majority of your crew? Did they not say “WE WANT QUEBEC OUT” That says it all. Don’t try to wiggle out of the facts.
Keep fighting and do what you have to do but leave the peace loving Canadians out of your silly games……and yes, you have my permission to send this post around the world. It is my pleasure to be able help your cause…..**smile**
Edudyorlik, Highlander, Peter, Rosie, Eric, LFA members and supporters:
I just returned from a trip to the Post Office whereby two employees were conversing in French. No problem there. When I conversed in English to one of them the entire service was conducted in French to me even though I gave no inclination of having the ability to speak French.
If each one of us does one little thing to inconvenience them every day then we can at least say we’re doing a little part of this
I have no problem being spoken to in French though why wasn’t I accomodated as an English-speaking person?
And no, I no longer see this kind of situation as being beneficial to ‘practicing’ my ‘French’.
Perhaps this woman didn’t speak English? If so, then Canada Post is to be commended for not practicing language discrimination through hiring only bilingual staff. I would like to give the benefit of the doubt and say that this is the case. In any case, I still received service in my own county – though not in my own language. I guess this is something I can still take pride in.
And speaking of receiving service in my own language?
Why didn’t another employee come out and start talking English with me if this was the case? I refused to switch to French because I thought to myself it should be the responsibility of the service provider to get someone who spoke English and not the responsibility of the consumer to speak the language of one of their employees. I would have waited; I had no problem with this at all and no one was behind me waiting in line.
I guess like most Canadians; I’ll continue to be a sheep.
One other thing…
If I cannot mail a letter through regular mail and don’t like the services that Canada Post constitutes – what choice do I have to mail a letter within a reasonable cost rate?
Purolator doesn’t seem to be reasonable; for just a letter.
Well, I’ll leave my comments and rantings and ravings here on CFN. The difference between myself and another party; I won’t be complaining to the Language Commissioner and suing for a lack of the ability for a stewardess to serve me 7-up in English.
“Does the name “peter” ring a bell? What about the majority of your crew? Did they not say “WE WANT QUEBEC OUT” That says it all. Don’t try to wiggle out of the facts.”
Some may believe that Canada would be better without Quebec but that remains their personal view as is your personal view in agreement of bill 101 and bill 14 and all that the Separatist want including separation.
Yet they are a political party in power with every intention of separation and YOU agree with their policies.
They are a political party in power funded by the Canadian taxpayers whose interest is to separate the country.
How is it Stella that you are so critical of a few dozen protesters advocating for fair government hiring policies and yet you turn a blind eye to a separatist party using Canadian tax dollars in pursuit of a dream of separating a country.********smile***********
Have a good day eh!
Social engineering 2.0
Justin Trudeau.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1qKps7uG6eM
Beivenue au Canada
JT`s first question in the house of commons. Anybody know? I can tell you this much.
Even though the very country he is vying to lead is 80% NON French.
You guesses it. His first damn question in the house of commons — was in FRENCH —
Justin Trudeau. His first question in the house of commons. Anybody know? I can tell you this much.
Even though the very country he is vying to lead is 80% NON French.
You guesses it. His first damn question was in FRENCH.
Looking at this issue with the languages we have the French in Quebec saying,
`Non, pas de anglais ici.`(NO ENGLISH here – NO ENGLISH)
they then turn around and DEMAND that EVERYONE else (the majority English people outside Quebec) accommodate them by learning French
If we compared this situation to children in a school yard,
as the children play with the parents watching on.
Imagine the school handed out a bag of candy and the one group of 10 children with red hair decided that only the people in their little group that had red hair could have candy.
Don`t you think the parents would intervene ?
You bet your buttinski they would… the parents would butt in and tell the kids with the red hair that the rest of the children deserve to have some candy also. They would let it be known that their behavior WAS UNFAIR and undemocratic.
Why is it then that the ROC sits idly by while the French claim THEE top job in the whole country (the Prime Minister) AS THEIR OWN along with MOST of top jobs within the government (to the tune of 65% right now with more being allocated each and every day) AS THEIR OWN and yet the 80% Anglophone Canadians DO NOTHING ??? That is really what we need to figure out.
@Cory Cameron
ON April 15, 2013 at 12:29 pm
Cory wrote, Edudyorlik, Highlander, Peter, Rosie, Eric, LFA members and supporters:
I just returned from a trip to the Post Office whereby two employees were conversing in French. No problem there. When I conversed in English to one of them the entire service was conducted in French to me even though I gave no inclination of having the ability to speak French.”
Darn right i am a supporter Cory. I have had it up to here with all of these kinds of stories like you explained. YOU CAN BET that these kinds of things in reverse WOULD NOT be tolerated. The manager would have been notified and a formal complaint would have been issued.
THE IMPORTANT thing to remember in all of this is that many people (including myself) began as supporters of being nice and being fair to the French. Most of us agreed that it wouldn’t hurt us one bit (even though we were the majority) to have ALL packaging for ALL products in Canada in both French and English.
Most of us agreed with the idea of providing service within the Federal government to the French people among us.
Most of us agreed with many other things through the years… BUT…
BUT… NOW…
Things have changed. A sane person reacts to the changes in their environment with the appropriate reaction based on what is confronting them. What we are being confronted with in this country is the French saying they WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ENGLISH but at the very same time DEMANDING that French be overly accommodated in all the ROC.
Things like the French having tried twice now to separate from Canada. As far as i am concerned that demands a certain reaction on my part (on our part)
The French putting a party into the federal government who’s mandate WAS NOT to get along and try to be together and happy and peaceful (as SOME here might try to lead people to believe) NO, the Bloc Quebecqois’s mandate was to separate and divide and was NOT for the good of ALL of Canada.
Furthermore, we see our countrymen who live in the province of Quebec being beaten up, yelled at, have sandwiches and eggs thrown at them and worse yet, have laws passed to make them LESS and diminish their worth as Canadians.
SO NOW, my reaction (as a sane person) to all of this is to want Quebec out. And i don’t believe i am alone in this. And again, it is A RE-ACTION to things THEY HAVE done that makes me feel this way. I didn’t wake up in the morning one day and decide, Quebec ‘s gotta go. NO, that feeling i have is based on all the things they have done that force me to re-act as a normal sane human being WOULD react. A way that i believe MANY Anglophone people in this country are beginning to re-act. And that is it. We cannot sit by and allow ourselves to be laughed at and taken advantage of any longer. They don’;t even want the Canadian flag in their national assembly for crying out loud. THAT is enough in and of itself.
Corey, I’m going to agree with you. Wow, yesterday kilroy and now you. Thinking I might be off my meds. (haha) IF that happened, the government employee should have replied in english. Well, If I may take the quote from rosie, now you know how I feel. This is happening to me all the time. I’ll address the person in french and they will reply in english even though they fully understand french. Frustrating isnt corey.
We should be picketing that Post Office…..that is a shame. I am going to send a letter to the UN. We should be able to be served in our majority language.
The more I think of it the more pissed I am getting. This has to stop……NOW!!! The time to fight is now……..**smile**
stellabystarlight
April 15, 2013 at 5:58 pm
“We should be picketing that Post Office…..that is a shame. I am going to send a letter to the UN. We should be able to be served in our majority language.”
Ah but not getting a 7-up in(FRENCH)on air Canada gets you thousands of dollars and it was the third time this federal bilingual worker had done that .
Stella I just cant see you making any effort for anything unless you get personal gain ,the hell with human rights what are those trivial things….right Stella?
***********smile******** That’s alright your not really know for standing up for human rights ,more known for agreeing on oppressing them. *******smile************
Have a good day EH!
Stellla” Keep fighting and do what you have to do but leave the peace loving Canadians out of your silly games……
Yes Stella.
“Aujourd’hui, le Parti Québecois lance officiellement sa campagne de promotion de la souveraineté. Silly Game Stella?