' Wrote:Why not have compulsory english and french classes in all schools in Canada, then require that all food packaging in canada is bi-lingual.
There, national level measures to ensure everyone can communicate with everyone else, can attent educational establishments everywhere within the country, while not sparking fears of "cultural erosion" (a concept I find bunk in the first place, there is no erosion, only evolution), by infact spreading the french canadian culture across the rest of the country.
Gosh... getting everyone involved through an inclusive central government policy? Revolutionary.
Right now, one of the things bill 101 says about school is that if your parents are either french speaking or speaking neither french nor english, you need to go to school in french. I think that part is a good idea, since it requires us to learn french properly. Not that you do not learn french properly if you go to english school, its just that you won't be able to learn as many of the subtleties of the french language, therefore if everyone would go to school in english, it would probably slowly kill french in Quebec.
In Quebec at least, if you go to french school, english classes are mandatory and if you go to english school, french classes are mandatory AFAIK.
I have to say though that your idea of making french classes mandatory in the whole country is a great idea, the only problem being that there happen to be some racist retards in the rest of the country who are anti-french. I am pretty sure these guys will probably complaint about thier child having to learn that "retarded" language.
The main problem with the culture in Quebec ATM is that a large part of the new generation of singers sing in english because its cool, even though many of them don't even understand what their are singing. But let say that I don't think anything will do much difference on that.