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On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams ([personal profile] dewline) wrote2019-11-12 08:10 pm

OTTAWA: Linguistic Bigots and the Mayor

On 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.

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