The Premier
of Ontario
Legislative Building
Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario
M7A 1A1

August 20, 2004

Suan H.Booiman, Esq.

Dear Suan H.Booiman:

Thank you for writing to share your thoughts and suggestions regarding official
bilingualism.

English is the official language of the province of Ontario as well as the administrative
language of the Ontario Government. However, considering that Ontario has the largest
French-speaking population in Canada outside of Quebec, the provincial government
introduced the French Language Services Act in 1989. The Act gives all citizens who
request French-languages services from the Ontario Government the right to be served
in French in 23 designated areas in the province. Although our government does not
intend to make Ontario officially bilingual at the moment, we are committed to giving
the Francophone community the services to which it is entitled.

In 2001, the City of Ottawa passed a municipal bylaw that allows it to operate in both
languages where deemed necessary. It is up to the city to determine how it defines
bilingualism. The city, not the province, will continue to decide what bilingualism means
in practical terms. Our government will not impose anything new on anyone.

I am proud of my hometown, Canada's Capital, where it is common to hear French and
English being spoken on the streets. That's why I believe the province should simply
recognize the existing bilingual nature of the city.

I hope I have been able to shed some light on the issue. Thanks again for writing.

Yours truly,

Dalton McGuinty
Premier


LETTERS DEMANDING OFFICIAL BILINGUALISM ....
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PUBLICATION: Le Droit
DATE: 2004.09.13
SECTION: Forum PAGE: 17

Ottawa bilingual city... Foué, Betrayed before and during the election campaign

Preceding the election by October 2, 2003, the liberal Party of Ontario had promised that it would declare the city of Ottawa bilingual, considering all the decision makers agreed. Never, during the election campaign, did they imply that they had to hold consultations before honouring this promise, leading to the seizure of power by their party...

And even more worrying, the liberals had promised to declare the city of Ottawa bilingual in the first year of their mandate, that is to say before October 2, 2004. Now, they are talking about 2005... What we've heard since October 2, 2003, is: "we had other priorities, such as the budget of May 18, 2004; the file is progressing, etc." And now, it is the roof: possible consultations! Consultations with who? why?

The Liberals should recognize that thousands of French-speaking people trusted them and voted for them in the hope that the rights of French-speaking people are finally respected, a symbol of this respect being the declaration of bilingualism for the City of Ottawa. As for me, I voted for the Liberals on October 2, 2003 for only one single reason: the hope to see our respected rights, and to ensure us of the promulgation of legislation declaring Ottawa a bilingual city.

From a monetary point of view, I had more advantages to vote Conservative. The Conservatives promised to exempt senior school tax, to continue their plan of reduction in taxes of private individuals, and to maintain tariffs o f electricity to 4,3 hundreds of the kw/h. The Liberals, "had promised" not to exempt elder a school tax, "promised" not to decrease the taxes of private individuals: these are the "promises" that they honoured. But they had also promised not to increase taxes of private individuals; it is not necessary to enumerate the string of taxes of all kinds which they either increased, or imposed, such their "contribution-health"; as for electricity tariffs, they increased them as of April 1, 2004, contrary to their promise to maintain them to 4,3 hundreds kw/h.

Before making promises, they had a strict duty to scan the data, those of the network of electricity inter alia, to realize the reality and to thus abstain from making intolerable promises to gain votes. This government twists like a wind vane with the wind even on a promise which, altogether, would not cost anything... except the votes unquestionablely francophone.

Today, the French-speaking people of Ontario must wonder where to turn now. For my part, I have all the reasons in the world to feel floué, betrayed by the liberal government of Ontario. I exaggerate? How? Indeed, it is even making me wonder whether this government is not putting this off until the next election. If it is not the case, then, prove it. This government will have extremely far to go up the slope, to regain the confidence of the French-speaking people - and the electorate - from here the next provincial election, in 2007.

Fernand Dumaine, Rockland
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PUBLICATION: Le Droit
DATE: 2004.09.13
SECTION: Forum PAGE: 17

Cruel Escapes

"It is promised for 2004", said the minister. Later, "it is promised for this autumn 2004, guaranteed". And now, "in 2005, I give you my word on it." It is pulp for the cats, what you offer us are visions!

Gilles Bisson (NPD, James Timmins-Bay) was faster on his feet when he presented his bill 117 to amend the law of Ottawa recognizing the national capital as bilingual.

Here is the Hansard (the official verbatim) of Ontario that reports Gilles Bisson had said in the House when presenting his bill: "Minister, Madeleine Meilleur, announced today (June 24, 2004) a committee advisor and that is not bad. "You made a promise to the French-speaking community, Mrs.
Meilleur, that I supported and which made much sense. That, it is to say to the City of Ottawa that yes, they have the right to be officially bilingual by provincial statute [... ]

We expected that you would keep these promises [... ] the promises are not there. You give us a committee advisor. The committee is great. Cheer.
But we are waiting for the promises you made. At this point, Madam, you did not keep them."

Now, Mrs. Meilleur passes the ball to the Minister of Municipal Affairs.
However Jean-Marc Lalonde had presented his bill himself and Gilles Bisson, who had copied Jean-Marc Lalonde's project word for word, also had presented this bill himself.

Does the minister lack courage, is this an escape which will enable her to explain later than it was someone else's fault? Is the Minister hiding behind public consultations which will never finish and her new Consultative Committee? Is the minister waiting until Terry Kilrea, mayoral candidate for the City of Ottawa, brings this autumn legal proceedings against the City of Ottawa saying that its policy on bilingualism is illegal - what would make it possible for Mrs. Meilleur to say to us "We cannot do anything, Terry Kilrea's challenge is in front of the courts"? I conclude from this that the minister offers us cruel escapes.

Andre W Payant, Ottawa

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The bizarre fanaticism of our language commissioner

Gerry Nicholls
Special to the Sun


Monday, September 20, 2004


I am having a hard time coming up with a way to describe Dyane Adam, Canada's commissioner of official languages.

Only one word keeps popping up in my head. Fanatic. And that's such a harsh word. The dictionary says a fanatic is a person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.

Napoleon was more succinct when he said there is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter. Not really a pleasant way to describe somebody, especially a top Ottawa bureaucrat.

Yet, when it comes to official bilingualism, Adam has no place in her head for reason. Just take the way she treated hockey broadcasting icon Don Cherry.

Earlier this year, Cherry uttered a comment on Hockey Night in Canada's Coaches' Corner about French-hockey players wearing visors.

"Most of the guys that wear them [visors] are Europeans and French guys" is exactly what Cherry said. It was a harmless remark. And any sensible person -- even those who disagreed with him, would never construe what he said as an attack on bilingualism.

But fanatics are seldom sensible. And Cherry was barely off the air before Adam had launched an official government investigation into his commentary to see if it violated the Official Languages Act.

Does that sound even remotely reasonable? What does commenting on hockey equipment have to do with Canada's official language policy?

Adam never considered the cost to taxpayers of this bizarre exercise. She never considered that maybe Cherry had the right to free speech. She never considered that it was not her job to censor CBC employees. Her first impulse was to unleash her language police on Cherry.

Talk about extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm for a cause. In fact, Adam is more than just extremely enthusiastic about her job.

She is determined to use the full weight of her authority to crush any deviation from her rigidly strict interpretation of official bilingualism. Just consider how she recently dropped the hammer on francophone employees of the federal government.

After an exhaustive -- and no doubt costly -- study of bilingualism in the federal civil service, Adam concluded that French-speaking civil servants spoke too much English in casual workplace conversation. The horror!

To set things straight, Adam is demanding "concrete measures" to inject more French-speaking in the workplace.

Nor is Adam content with her mandated policy of monitoring the language policies of the federal government; now she is going after the private sector.

Indeed, Adam was appalled with the lax attitude of the Public Works Department when it came to enforcing bilingualism among its private sector tenants in the National Capital Area.

As she put it in a recent report, the department had "done nothing to inform clients of their linguistic obligations."

So under Adam's prodding, Public Works' bureaucrats sent blunt notes to their tenants demanding they provide services and printed materials in French and English. Signs, websites, menus and advertisements -- all must be bilingual.

Understandably, businesses are less than thrilled with their "linguistic obligations." Optometrist Dr. Grenville Goodwin, who operates a business started by his father, can't understand any of it.

"My family has owned this business for over 100 years," Grenville said. "And now they want me to change my sign? Hire new staff?"

Making government services bilingual is one thing, but it's quite another thing to force language policy on private companies.

In a free society every citizen should have the right to do business in whatever language they choose, even if they are leasing property from the government.

Oops, I forgot. This is Canada.

And in Canada we give bureaucrats like Adam full power to trample on individual rights and freedoms, so long as they are doing it to preserve government-sanctioned myths.

And yes the notion that Canada is a bilingual country is a myth.

Check the facts: Outside of Quebec and New Brunswick, French is the first language of less than five per cent of the population. Meanwhile, in Quebec, English signs are illegal.

Adam probably considers pointing out facts like that a language crime.

What else can you expect from -- for lack of a better word -- a fanatic?

Gerry Nicholls is vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition -- http://www.morefreedom.org." rel="nofollow">LINK

© The Vancouver Sun 2004
The bizarre fanaticism of our language commissioner

Gerry Nicholls
Special to the Sun


Monday, September 20, 2004


I am having a hard time coming up with a way to describe Dyane Adam, Canada's commissioner of official languages.

Only one word keeps popping up in my head. Fanatic. And that's such a harsh word. The dictionary says a fanatic is a person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.

Napoleon was more succinct when he said there is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter. Not really a pleasant way to describe somebody, especially a top Ottawa bureaucrat.

Yet, when it comes to official bilingualism, Adam has no place in her head for reason. Just take the way she treated hockey broadcasting icon Don Cherry.

Earlier this year, Cherry uttered a comment on Hockey Night in Canada's Coaches' Corner about French-hockey players wearing visors.

"Most of the guys that wear them [visors] are Europeans and French guys" is exactly what Cherry said. It was a harmless remark. And any sensible person -- even those who disagreed with him, would never construe what he said as an attack on bilingualism.

But fanatics are seldom sensible. And Cherry was barely off the air before Adam had launched an official government investigation into his commentary to see if it violated the Official Languages Act.

Does that sound even remotely reasonable? What does commenting on hockey equipment have to do with Canada's official language policy?

Adam never considered the cost to taxpayers of this bizarre exercise. She never considered that maybe Cherry had the right to free speech. She never considered that it was not her job to censor CBC employees. Her first impulse was to unleash her language police on Cherry.

Talk about extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm for a cause. In fact, Adam is more than just extremely enthusiastic about her job.

She is determined to use the full weight of her authority to crush any deviation from her rigidly strict interpretation of official bilingualism. Just consider how she recently dropped the hammer on francophone employees of the federal government.

After an exhaustive -- and no doubt costly -- study of bilingualism in the federal civil service, Adam concluded that French-speaking civil servants spoke too much English in casual workplace conversation. The horror!

To set things straight, Adam is demanding "concrete measures" to inject more French-speaking in the workplace.

Nor is Adam content with her mandated policy of monitoring the language policies of the federal government; now she is going after the private sector.

Indeed, Adam was appalled with the lax attitude of the Public Works Department when it came to enforcing bilingualism among its private sector tenants in the National Capital Area.

As she put it in a recent report, the department had "done nothing to inform clients of their linguistic obligations."

So under Adam's prodding, Public Works' bureaucrats sent blunt notes to their tenants demanding they provide services and printed materials in French and English. Signs, websites, menus and advertisements -- all must be bilingual.

Understandably, businesses are less than thrilled with their "linguistic obligations." Optometrist Dr. Grenville Goodwin, who operates a business started by his father, can't understand any of it.

"My family has owned this business for over 100 years," Grenville said. "And now they want me to change my sign? Hire new staff?"

Making government services bilingual is one thing, but it's quite another thing to force language policy on private companies.

In a free society every citizen should have the right to do business in whatever language they choose, even if they are leasing property from the government.

Oops, I forgot. This is Canada.

And in Canada we give bureaucrats like Adam full power to trample on individual rights and freedoms, so long as they are doing it to preserve government-sanctioned myths.

And yes the notion that Canada is a bilingual country is a myth.

Check the facts: Outside of Quebec and New Brunswick, French is the first language of less than five per cent of the population. Meanwhile, in Quebec, English signs are illegal.

Adam probably considers pointing out facts like that a language crime.

What else can you expect from -- for lack of a better word -- a fanatic?

Gerry Nicholls is vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition -- http://www.morefreedom.org." rel="nofollow">LINK

© The Vancouver Sun 2004
The bizarre fanaticism of our language commissioner

Gerry Nicholls
Special to the Sun


Monday, September 20, 2004


I am having a hard time coming up with a way to describe Dyane Adam, Canada's commissioner of official languages.

Only one word keeps popping up in my head. Fanatic. And that's such a harsh word. The dictionary says a fanatic is a person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.

Napoleon was more succinct when he said there is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter. Not really a pleasant way to describe somebody, especially a top Ottawa bureaucrat.

Yet, when it comes to official bilingualism, Adam has no place in her head for reason. Just take the way she treated hockey broadcasting icon Don Cherry.

Earlier this year, Cherry uttered a comment on Hockey Night in Canada's Coaches' Corner about French-hockey players wearing visors.

"Most of the guys that wear them [visors] are Europeans and French guys" is exactly what Cherry said. It was a harmless remark. And any sensible person -- even those who disagreed with him, would never construe what he said as an attack on bilingualism.

But fanatics are seldom sensible. And Cherry was barely off the air before Adam had launched an official government investigation into his commentary to see if it violated the Official Languages Act.

Does that sound even remotely reasonable? What does commenting on hockey equipment have to do with Canada's official language policy?

Adam never considered the cost to taxpayers of this bizarre exercise. She never considered that maybe Cherry had the right to free speech. She never considered that it was not her job to censor CBC employees. Her first impulse was to unleash her language police on Cherry.

Talk about extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm for a cause. In fact, Adam is more than just extremely enthusiastic about her job.

She is determined to use the full weight of her authority to crush any deviation from her rigidly strict interpretation of official bilingualism. Just consider how she recently dropped the hammer on francophone employees of the federal government.

After an exhaustive -- and no doubt costly -- study of bilingualism in the federal civil service, Adam concluded that French-speaking civil servants spoke too much English in casual workplace conversation. The horror!

To set things straight, Adam is demanding "concrete measures" to inject more French-speaking in the workplace.

Nor is Adam content with her mandated policy of monitoring the language policies of the federal government; now she is going after the private sector.

Indeed, Adam was appalled with the lax attitude of the Public Works Department when it came to enforcing bilingualism among its private sector tenants in the National Capital Area.

As she put it in a recent report, the department had "done nothing to inform clients of their linguistic obligations."

So under Adam's prodding, Public Works' bureaucrats sent blunt notes to their tenants demanding they provide services and printed materials in French and English. Signs, websites, menus and advertisements -- all must be bilingual.

Understandably, businesses are less than thrilled with their "linguistic obligations." Optometrist Dr. Grenville Goodwin, who operates a business started by his father, can't understand any of it.

"My family has owned this business for over 100 years," Grenville said. "And now they want me to change my sign? Hire new staff?"

Making government services bilingual is one thing, but it's quite another thing to force language policy on private companies.

In a free society every citizen should have the right to do business in whatever language they choose, even if they are leasing property from the government.

Oops, I forgot. This is Canada.

And in Canada we give bureaucrats like Adam full power to trample on individual rights and freedoms, so long as they are doing it to preserve government-sanctioned myths.

And yes the notion that Canada is a bilingual country is a myth.

Check the facts: Outside of Quebec and New Brunswick, French is the first language of less than five per cent of the population. Meanwhile, in Quebec, English signs are illegal.

Adam probably considers pointing out facts like that a language crime.

What else can you expect from -- for lack of a better word -- a fanatic?

Gerry Nicholls is vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition -- http://www.morefreedom.org." rel="nofollow">LINK

© The Vancouver Sun 2004

If you are concerned about bilingualism and the future of this country and your children, here are some contact numbers.


cc Clerk Senate Standing Committee on Official Languages; fax 947-2104, ph 990-6160 or 990-0088, email;

Clerk Standing Committee on Official Languages; fax 995-2106, ph 996-2441 or 992-4793 email;

PMO office fax 941-6900, ph 941-6888. Email;

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PUBLICATION: Le Droit / DATE: 2004.10.08 / SECTION: The Area / PAGE: 12 / BYLINE: Boivin, Matthieu
HEADLINE: The CLF legal challenge angers Don Boudria

The legal challenge by Canadians for Language Fairness (CLF) against the City of Ottawa French Languages Services policy raised the ire of federal minister Don Boudria, who made a statement with the Houses of Commons, yesterday afternoon, against the spokesman of the anglophone group, Sebastian Anders.

A few moments before the end of question period, Mr. Boudria asked the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Stephen Harper, to denounce Mr. Anders, who was an organizer of the Conversative Party during last federal election. CLF deposited a legal challenge in the Supreme Court of Ontario to invalidate the French Languages Services policy because, according to them, it persecutes the rights of the unilingual english-speakers who want to obtain bilingual management jobs in the municipal public office.

"It is with sadness that I learned that a group claiming to represent the interests of Canadians, the organization CLF, brings a challenge against the City of Ottawa, in order to prevent the latter from offering bilingual services to its population. Their spokesman, Sebastian Anders, is no other than the candidate of the Canadian Alliance party which ran against me during the elections in 2000. This same party is called Conversative Party today. He was also the organizer of the Convervative Party during recent election in Glengarry-Prescott and Russell. In the name of my voters, I ask that the Leader of the Conservative Party to denounce and dissociate himself immediately from the remarks of Sebastian Anders and that he reaffirms the engagement of his party towards Canadian linguistic duality."

This decision of CLF to put to the test the French Languages Services policy in the City of Ottawa also caused a reaction from Bernard Grandmaître, the president of the French Languages Serivces Committee in the City of Ottawa.

"When I was a Minister for the French-speaking Businesses with Queen's Park, I always received letters from groups which denounced our claims for the French-speaking minority, he indicated. Several years later, these groups still exist, but under another name. The cause of the CLF will have the benefit of settling the debate once and for all and I am convinced that the courts will favour the City of Ottawa."

Mr. Grandmaître is also anxious that the Province of Ontario proceed with the reading of the bill recognizing of the City of Ottawa bilingual statute and that it is adopted. "I would have liked that the first reading of the bill was already carried out", he argued. CLF and its legal challenge even caused comments of the Federation of the Acadian Francophone Community (FCFA) of Canada, which also hopes to implicate itself in the brawl.

"When a group asks the courts to abolish bilingualism in the capital of the country, it becomes a national stake, estimated the president of the organization, George Arès. Without necessarily appearing before court firsthand, the federation could for example deposit in Court a higher series of affidavits or letters of support indicating the importance for the whole of the French-speaking people of the country that Ottawa continues its policy on bilingualism."

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7. PUBLICATION: Le Droit / DATE: 2004.10.08 / SECTION: The Area / PAGE: 8 / BYLINE: Gratton, Denis
HEADLINE: "Pit Bull" goes to war

Pinch me somebody, I'm dreaming. I must certainly be deaming because I just read in Le Droit this morning (yesterday morning) that the ACFO IMMEDIATELY reacted to the heinous remarks of the group Canadians for Language Fairness (CLF).

The ACFO reacted quickly in a Franco-Ontarian file. Considering they have seldom said anything over the last 12 years. As Renee Claude sang: "It is the beginning of a new time"...

I know that the French Canadian Association of Ontario changed their name and that it is nowed called the group of franco-ontariannes. But it is the same acronym. The difference is that with the presidency, the ACFO made a successful master stroke, last month, by electing Jean "Pit Bull" Poirier as chair of the provincial group. The end of turning in circles. The end of bureaucratic nonsense at Queen' S Park. The end of blasted reconceptualisation. (Ouch! It makes my fngers cramp every time I type the word reconceptualisation. Ouch!)

There is a pack of people who will soon realize that the ACFO is no longer a warm corpse, but a very alive organization which was simply mislaid for a decade. From here on, with the "Pit Bull" of Prescott and Russell as leader, there will be attention like fireworks brought to the Francos.

The AFCO died, the AFCO lives

The small group of anglophones of the CLF could not have chosen a worse moment to make its public announcement and it's obvious demonstration of extreme religious bigotry. I would like to be there when the lawyer of this group, Mr Arthur Cogan, meets Jean Poirier for the first time. I have the curious impression that this lawyer will see all the colors. I even fear that the poor guy will be so demolished that the reconceptualisation will be allowed. (Ouch!)

All the same, this incredible public announcement of the CLF. These people tell taxpaying franco-ontariens that we can express ourselves well in French among us, but that we should speak only English on the labour market and that we should address municipal civil servants in English only to obtain services. What nerve! They refuse to learn French as we learned English and they expect that management jobs in the City of Ottawa are given to them. Abolish the bilingualim policy because we do not speak French. That's what they say. That's what they require. My answer to them: go cook an egg. You refuse for all kinds of reasons to learn another language, and this is your right. That you require that everyone else speak only your language because you are too lazy or proud to learn another language, that does not pass any more. And for heavens sake, stop comparing the "poor" Anglo-québécois as a way of threatening the Franco-Ontariens. It would be like comparing a member of "Parents for French" with one of yours. And in passing, my English gang, you do not delude anybody with your new name. You are all known as the same small (very small) group of francophobe religious bigots who formerly called themselves under the banner of the APEC, the late one, thank God. "Association for the Preservation of English in Canada". And you know that you do not in favour with your English Canadian compatriots with your publicity and your lownesses, you make them ashamed.

And if you think that Gisele Lalonde was persistent and aggravating during the Montfort sago, just wait until you meet "Pit Bull Poirier". You will beg us to bring Mrs. Lalonde back. You want a fight dear "french bashers"? Come on - let's go!
A short memo to Minister Madeleine Meilleur in closing. Wouldn't this be a perfect "timing", Mrs. Meilleur, to officially recognize the bilingual statute of the national capital? Could you discuss it with your McGuinty Prime Minister? It seems to to me that it would be perfect time to act. To nail the nozzle of these religious bigots once and for all. We would be infinitely grateful to you.