umm...Not so fast there "big fella!" ,,,What about your good ole buddy Dan!!??....I REALLY don't think he started out on his little tirade for his own personal enjoyment..(If you get my drift)..All thought he did turn the tables in his favor (only) after the fact, and that was to get tanker and company to help put the screws to you but good LOL....
Bilingualism goal will prove elusive: ex-premier Lord Language adviser plans report next month KATE JAIMET, CanWest News Service Published: 4 hours ago Half of all Canadian high school students will "probably not" be bilingual by the year 2013 - but that's no reason not to try, says the man charged with advising the federal government on bilingualism policy.
"I think it's a long shot at this moment," said former New Brunswick premier Bernard Lord. "But I think the goal of having more children graduate bilingual is a noble (one)."
Lord spoke to CanWest News Service after a whirlwind tour of the country this month. He is to make recommendations to Josée Verner, the minister of official languages, next month.
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Printer friendly Font:****Current Liberal leader Stéphane Dion set the bilingualism goal in 2003 when he was intergovernmental affairs minister.
But despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent by provincial and federal governments on bilingual education since then, bilingualism among high school students is going down, not up, according to Statistics Canada.
Asked why the drive toward bilingualism appears to be faltering, Lord said he believes parents bear a front-line responsibility. "Parents decide if their children will learn one language, or two, or three," he said.
"The government has a role to play in education, but at the same time parents have the first responsibility."
Lord said next month's recommendations will include how much the government should spend on bilingualism policy.
The plan developed by Dion in 2003 allocated $750 million over five years to foster bilingualism, of which $381 million was earmarked for education.
Lord said his report will also weigh in on immigration. The 2003 action plan gave $9 million over five years to help French-language communities outside Quebec recruit francophone immigrants. That policy recently came under fire from the Parti Québécois, which argues it could hurt Quebec's ability to attract French-speakers from among the same, limited pool.
In the course of his consultations, Lord touched down in Halifax, Moncton, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver. He met representatives from French and English minority communities, academics, businessmen, volunteers and government observers.
Lord said the people he met were optimistic about the survival of francophone communities outside Quebec. This despite 2006 census results, released this month, which show the number of native francophones dropping in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and across the Atlantic provinces.
Ottawa Citizen
Elusive???It was the stupidest idea EVER. Force and coercion and retaliation only spreads hatred,and it shore has.
Harper and his penis extenders,costs us lots of global warming money.
Feds' love affair with SUVs shows no sign of cooling off Spending on gas-guzzlers almost doubled in a year CanWest News Service Published: 4 hours ago Led by the new gas-guzzling black SUVs in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motorcade, the federal government nearly doubled the amount it spent on sport utility vehicles during the first full year of the Conservative government.
Even as the government offers rebates to encourage Canadians to drive more fuel-efficient cars, its own spending on SUVs rose 88 per cent over the previous year. The Public Works Department ordered 844 new sport utilities last year, a large leap from the 500 purchased the year before and the 366 in 2004-05, the last full fiscal year under a Liberal government.
The government also paid for leases on another 85 SUVs.
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Printer friendly Font:****Federal departments tabled records of their SUV acquisitions in the House of Commons this month in response to a question from New Democratic MP Nathan Cullen.
Documents from Public Works, which usually does the purchasing of SUVs for the government, show the Royal Canadian Mounted Police acquired more than $13 million worth of them, followed by National Defence at $5.1 million and the Department of Foreign Affairs, which tendered $2.7 million in orders for armour-plated SUVs for use by Canadian missions abroad.
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umm...Not so fast there "big fella!" ,,,What about your good ole buddy Dan!!??....I REALLY don't think he started out on his little tirade for his own personal enjoyment..(If you get my drift)..All thought he did turn the tables in his favor (only) after the fact, and that was to get tanker and company to help put the screws to you but good LOL....
You miss Mr.Lords sense for speaking the truth.
Bilingualism goal will prove elusive: ex-premier Lord
Language adviser plans report next month
KATE JAIMET, CanWest News Service
Published: 4 hours ago
Half of all Canadian high school students will "probably not" be bilingual by the year 2013 - but that's no reason not to try, says the man charged with advising the federal government on bilingualism policy.
"I think it's a long shot at this moment," said former New Brunswick premier Bernard Lord. "But I think the goal of having more children graduate bilingual is a noble (one)."
Lord spoke to CanWest News Service after a whirlwind tour of the country this month. He is to make recommendations to Josée Verner, the minister of official languages, next month.
Email to a friend
Printer friendly
Font:****Current Liberal leader Stéphane Dion set the bilingualism goal in 2003 when he was intergovernmental affairs minister.
But despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent by provincial and federal governments on bilingual education since then, bilingualism among high school students is going down, not up, according to Statistics Canada.
Asked why the drive toward bilingualism appears to be faltering, Lord said he believes parents bear a front-line responsibility. "Parents decide if their children will learn one language, or two, or three," he said.
"The government has a role to play in education, but at the same time parents have the first responsibility."
Lord said next month's recommendations will include how much the government should spend on bilingualism policy.
The plan developed by Dion in 2003 allocated $750 million over five years to foster bilingualism, of which $381 million was earmarked for education.
Lord said his report will also weigh in on immigration. The 2003 action plan gave $9 million over five years to help French-language communities outside Quebec recruit francophone immigrants. That policy recently came under fire from the Parti Québécois, which argues it could hurt Quebec's ability to attract French-speakers from among the same, limited pool.
In the course of his consultations, Lord touched down in Halifax, Moncton, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver. He met representatives from French and English minority communities, academics, businessmen, volunteers and government observers.
Lord said the people he met were optimistic about the survival of francophone communities outside Quebec. This despite 2006 census results, released this month, which show the number of native francophones dropping in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and across the Atlantic provinces.
Ottawa Citizen
Elusive???It was the stupidest idea EVER.
Force and coercion and retaliation only spreads hatred,and it shore has.
Harper and his
penis extenders,costs us lots of global warming money.
Feds' love affair with SUVs shows no sign of cooling off
Spending on gas-guzzlers almost doubled in a year
CanWest News Service
Published: 4 hours ago
Led by the new gas-guzzling black SUVs in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motorcade, the federal government nearly doubled the amount it spent on sport utility vehicles during the first full year of the Conservative government.
Even as the government offers rebates to encourage Canadians to drive more fuel-efficient cars, its own spending on SUVs rose 88 per cent over the previous year. The Public Works Department ordered 844 new sport utilities last year, a large leap from the 500 purchased the year before and the 366 in 2004-05, the last full fiscal year under a Liberal government.
The government also paid for leases on another 85 SUVs.
Email to a friend
Printer friendly
Font:****Federal departments tabled records of their SUV acquisitions in the House of Commons this month in response to a question from New Democratic MP Nathan Cullen.
Documents from Public Works, which usually does the purchasing of SUVs for the government, show the Royal Canadian Mounted Police acquired more than $13 million worth of them, followed by National Defence at $5.1 million and the Department of Foreign Affairs, which tendered $2.7 million in orders for armour-plated SUVs for use by Canadian missions abroad.
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