CANADA: E-Petition to Declare Indigenous Languages Official

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The story as reported so far is here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-official-languages-petition-1.5494939

I've said it before, and admitting that I'm descended from European immigrants up front alongside that fact, that if I had my way, every Canadian would be fluent in - at mimimum! - four languages: English, French, one Indigenous language, and one more from anywhere else on the planet. Partly as a matter of beefing up our brain-skill-set in general and partly as a matter of ethics.

Jenna Robar's proposal strikes me as perfectly in line with my thoughts, and I am inclined to see it as one more in a set of potential job-creation engines for Canada to power its future with.

And if you want a look at the petition itself?

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2453&fbclid=IwAR0Drp6vAcTQeDNQWkQ_XqUzjIHubSfkgEayElQKL4a5dO9A6h58sAUjq2w

Yes, I'm signing the petition.

Comments

[sabotabby]

Signed! Also, wow, that's my MP. He's not bad for a Lib.

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Making a note of that for future reference.

[armiphlage]

Signed!

Ontario, at least, publishes health and safety posters and other important documents in Oji-Cree.

https://files.ontario.ca/posters/poster_prevention_oji_cree.pdf

https://docs.ontario.ca/documents/2872/stdprod-109997.pdf