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Originally Posted by thewave46
It's not folly if it is representative of the situation on the ground.
NB may have other follies (see: Irving control of province), but I don't think bilingualism is one of them.
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Bilingualism is not representative of the situation on the ground.
Bilingual policy in the province is slavishly enforced on a pan provincial level, ignoring the fact that a francophone in St Andrews is as rare as an anglophone in Lameque.
Despite this, paramedics in Grand Manan Island are expected to be fluently bilingual even though there is effectively no French population on the island, leading to enforced shortages in emergency medical services.
It doesn't make any sense.
NB should have it's own "cantons", where local governments can decide how bilingual they want to be.