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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
Isn't requiring both languages on labelling, although a small thing, providing a buffer that protects the language?
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I suppose.
Maybe not you, but I've never understood why bilingual labelling was viewed by so many ROCers as this huge concession to Quebec and francophones.
I mean, we're here on the land mass and we're a decent-sized market. Even if Quebec had been independent since 1995, 1980 or even before that there'd probably be some type of fairly extensive trade agreement and many, many products sold in Canada would still have English-French bilingual labelling.
We're not part of the same country as Mexico and tons of products already have Spanish on them as well today. (And the US has even more Spanish on labels and such and they're not part of Mexico either and Spanish isn't even an official language.)
When I hear people say this stuff it's as if they've never travelled abroad in their entire lives.
"Let Quebec separate - then we won't have any more of that damned French on our bloody cereal boxes!"
I think not. Not unless you want 25% of the workers at Kellogg's in Toronto to lose their jobs.