Federal Liberal Canadian Bill C-13: we have all very recently seen how the "New Official Bilingualism" works in practice in the Province of Quebec...

Public feedback on this de facto pro-francophone language minority Bill C-13 is reportedly due by August 31st, 2022. So this is a time-sensitive matter. The links for sharing your comments are visible and included further below.

So far, all that the Trudeau Government has had to say about the 2022 enactment of Quebec's corresponding Bill 96 ("An Act Respecting French, the Official and Common language of Quebec") was that the Government was allegedly "concerned." Nothing further appears to have been said or done by the Trudeau Government in order to diminish its professed concern.

This comparable law to Quebec's Bill 96 - namely, federal Liberal Bill C-13 - is scheduled to be rolled out across Canada: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c13_2.html

The cost and the reach alone of Bill C-13's enforcement in practice will firstly deprive Canada of better healthcare and national defence provision, and it will also institutionally discriminate even further against Anglophones in Canada of all colours, ethnicity, religions, and national origin, etc., both in government appointments and in private sector positions that are regulated by federal laws (e.g., banking, transportation, communications, etc.).

Bill C-13 cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged by the 80% plus of Canadians whose ancestry and language is as an Anglophone from a majority-will democratic tradition. Furthermore, "Official Bilingualism" needs to be put to a national referendum without further delay, since the Charter containing it was never in any party's federal election manifesto.

Specifically, lucrative and influential government appointments - overwhelmingly paid for by Canada's 82% majority Anglophone and tax-paying population - should be on the basis of their relevant training, qualifications, superior experience, core competency and related merit.

Such appointments should never awarded to someone simply because their key attribute is that they speak a minority language, because of their sexual orientation (gay and purportedly transgendered persons are typically not more than 5% of each national population), because they are female (which since about 2017 has in fact meant belonging to the majority number of employees in the Canadian labour market, even if at this time it is a slender majority), or because of their personal political preferences. A country needs the brightest and the best available public policy-makers and bureaucrats.

The following Reddit article was brought to my attention, and I encourage you to read it, and to act on it very quickly through your MP - as the feedback deadline is rapidly approaching. The URL for this article appears at the end of this replicated text:

"Bill C-13 will enforce bilingualism in some parts of CANADA, starting in 2 years. Fewer job openings for unilingual Canadians will be among the adverse consequences. This is the thin edge of the wedge! You can SUBMIT COMMENTS to the committee until Aug 31. Here is a sample comment, for inspiration.

An open letter to the Official Languages Committee about Bill C-13.

Before you pass Bill C-13, please consider the following five ways in which it will harm Canadians:

ONE: Bill C-13 will require Supreme Court nominees to be bilingual. This is a bad idea. Bilingualism is not an essential skill for Supreme Court judges, so it should not be required. After all, court documents can easily be translated. Therefore, a unilingual judge can perform just as well as a bilingual judge. Hence, requiring Supreme Court nominees to be bilingual would serve no useful purpose for Canadians.

However, this requirement is not just useless; it will also be downright harmful, at times. That is, it will sometimes block the best judges from getting appointed to the Supreme Court, for the sole reason that they are not bilingual. Consequently, less qualified judges will be nominated instead, just because they are bilingual. That will harm all Canadians, without providing any benefit whatsoever.

Canadians don't care what languages the Supreme Court judges speak; rather, we care whether the judges are capable of making fair, sensible decisions. We want whichever judges are the most competent, moral, and courageous. Whether any particular judge is unilingual or bilingual is irrelevant.

Therefore, please amend Bill C-13 so that Supreme Court nominees will not be required to be bilingual.

TWO: Bill C-13 will give tyrannical new powers to the Commissioner of Official Languages. In effect, the Commissioner’s office will function as the national language police. Their job will be to bully and intimidate Canadians into compliance. Their punitive micro-management of anglophone Canadians will provoke resentment against francophones nationwide.

A better approach would be to:

Help anglophones learn French.

Praise and reward people and businesses for using French.

Rely on companies’ own profit motive and goodwill to accommodate the French language needs of their customers and employees.

Therefore, please amend Bill C-13 to remove the punitive, tyrannical new powers granted to the Commissioner, and instead adopt a more encouraging approach.

THREE: Bill C-13 will enforce French unilingualism within Quebec, while enforcing bilingualism outside of Quebec. This double standard will provoke resentment against francophones, and further divide Canadians against each other.

FOUR: Bill C-13 will initially require as much as $240,000,000 in private compliance costs, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. In addition, about $20 million annually will be needed, just to maintain compliance. Taxpayers, investors, and consumers will resent this unnecessary expense.

FIVE: For decades now, the federal government has preferred to hire employees who are bilingual, even for jobs where bilingualism is irrelevant. This policy has discriminated against some of the best-qualified Canadians, just because they are not bilingual. This has negatively impacted the quality of government service for all Canadians, regardless of their native language.

Furthermore, it is difficult for anglophones to learn French well enough to qualify for government jobs. Canadian public schools seem incapable of teaching French well enough. In contrast, francophones tend to be naturally bilingual, because they are surrounded by spoken and written English every day. This has given francophones an advantage when competing for government positions. As a result, most senior federal government jobs are now held by francophones, not necessarily because they are more competent, but because they are bilingual.

Despite this enormous privilege, some francophones think of themselves as victims of linguistic injustice. One man in particular has repeatedly sued airlines and airports for trivial language infractions that never caused him any real harm. Unfortunately, such spiteful behavior results in increased resentment against all francophones.

Resentful behavior like this is inspired by Canada’s resentful language laws. Such resentful laws have created the false impression that francophones are oppressed and need to be coddled. Bill C-13 is yet another such resentful language law. Like its predecessors, it will inevitably cause more harm than good.

In summary, Bill C-13 is divisive, expensive, and counterproductive. It will provoke resentment against francophones nationwide. Yet this bill offers no significant benefits. Therefore, Bill C-13 should be scrapped.

Thank you.

Relevant links:

The email address for the Official Languages Committee, until Aug 31:

Consultations_LO-OL_Consultations@pch.gc.ca

The OLC web page, which contains a link to a biased questionnaire that you can submit, but only until Aug 31:

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/consultation-official-languages-2022.html"

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