OTTAWA: Linguistic Bigots and the Mayor
Nov. 12th, 2019 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineOn one level, this was an act of intimidation. On another, an act of twisted nostalgia.
On another, it was worse.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/anti-francophone-flyers-mayors-breakfast-1.5356877
I answer the act with this: Ottawa - since well before European contact and "settlement" - colonization, really - was always functionally multilingual. Not merely bilingual.
And it should always remain so.
On another, it was worse.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/anti-francophone-flyers-mayors-breakfast-1.5356877
I answer the act with this: Ottawa - since well before European contact and "settlement" - colonization, really - was always functionally multilingual. Not merely bilingual.
And it should always remain so.
