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Sorry, I Don’t Speak French: Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won’t Go Away |
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| Format | Hardcover | |
| Catalogue No. | 0-7710-4766-5 | |
| Pages | 340 | |
| Language | English only | |
| Price | $34.99 | |
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Written by Graham Fraser. Published by Douglas Gibson Books, 2006. Description: |
| Canada’s language
policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies —
English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The country’s success
in staying together depends on making it work. How well is it working? Graham Fraser, an English-speaking Canadian who became bilingual, decided to take a clear-eyed look at the situation. The results are startling — a blend of good news and bad. The Official Languages Act was passed with the support of every party in the House way back in 1969 — yet Canada’s language policy is still a controversial, red-hot topic; jobs, ideals, and ultimately the country are at stake. And the myth that the whole thing was always a plot to get francophones top jobs continues to live. In Sorry, I Don’t Speak French, author Graham Fraser looks at the intentions, the hopes, the fears, the record, the myths, and the unexpected reality of a country that is still grappling with the language challenge that has shaped its history. He finds a paradox: after letting Quebec lawyers run the country for three decades, Canadians keep hoping the next generation will be bilingual — but forty years after learning that the country faced a language crisis, Canada’s universities still treat French as a foreign language. He describes the impact of language on politics and government (not to mention social life in Montréal and Ottawa) in a hard-hitting book that will be discussed everywhere, including the headlines in both languages. About the author: Graham Fraser is a widely respected journalist who has written in both English and French. Now based in Ottawa as a Toronto Star national affairs writer, he has covered politics in Toronto, Montréal, Quebec City, and Washington. |
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