Re: To the Canadians, is Michael Moore correct about life there?

"A Better Chungking_Cash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > There is much more racial tension in Canada.
> >
> > In 1970, Prime Minister Trudeau had to call in the army into Montreal
> > specifically BECAUSE of racial tension between the French and the
> > English.
>
> That's an example of ethnic tension not racial tension (both are
> PREDOMINATELY white cultures).
>
> > In Quebec, there is legal segregation between two classes of people in
> > the school system.  It is a form of apartheid (of course, on a much
> > smaller scale than South Africa) but it is segregation none-the-less.
>
> That doesn't surprise me at all...for the providence of Quebec at
> least.
>
 Under current Quebec law to attend an English language primary or secondary
school funded by the public you must have attended such a school elsewhere
in Canada.  Immigrants are supposed to attend French language primary or
secondary schools.  This was brought in because, big surprise, many
immigrants who came to Quebec wanted to enroll their kids in English
language schools.  However such rules don't apply to private schools that
don't get government funding, so what people with the money to afford to do
is send their kids to one of these schools.  A year'[s worth of education in
one is sufficient to allow the kids to enter the English language school
system.  Ironically a majority of Quebeckers believe that a parent should
have the unrestricted choice of what language their children should be
schooled in.

tim gueguen 101867