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Tom
April 28, 2009 - 5:28 PM
Tourism BC is an agency of the provincial government, which is unilingual, just like every other province in Canada other than New Brunswick, and therefore does not publish in French. Vanoc has recognized the cultural importance of French to Canada, and the IOC's official languages also happen to be English and French, which creates some obligation. French will definitely play a role, but the politicians, as usual, are being hyperbolic about this issue. I hope Vanoc will be pragmatic and not waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on unnecessary translations that the vast majority of residents and visitors will not understand.
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^It may come to a surprise for some of you, even being a Québécois, I tend to agree with this person, no need to be more Catholic than the Pope . We (in Québec),at least most of us would understand since that the Games are being held in the Western part of the country, most of the dealings were held in the English language.Anyways like some already mentioned, the Games have both English + French as official languages, same goes for Canada by the way,so no need to make a fuss out of what a few Québec MP's are saying.
That article did not even make the news here, not as of yet on the few networks I've seen.
I may be naive, but do think people in Vancouver are genarally pretty open minded and more pragmatic, way more than other places in Canada .
Éric