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Bonjour Welcome
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Full disclosure:  I am neither Anglophone nor Francophone but I'm most comfortable communicating in English.  

I really like the idea put forward by the francophone association in Kitchener-Waterloo (Association des Francophones de Kitchener-Waterloo).  They started a programme called Bonjour Welcome because they would like to see a bit more bilingualism in KW.  I can understand why.  Living in most parts of Canada (including Québec) it would be hard to tell that Canada is officially a bilingual nation.  

A new French language high school is to open this fall in Kitchener.  That's great but where would the graduates speak French?  The only French I see around here are signs in federal government buildings.  And nowhere else.

You can read the article from the Record here.
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Bonjour Welcome - by jgsz - 04-04-2019, 09:38 AM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by panamaniac - 04-04-2019, 09:57 AM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by timio - 04-05-2019, 08:01 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by plam - 04-05-2019, 08:46 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by tomh009 - 04-05-2019, 10:46 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by panamaniac - 04-05-2019, 10:51 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by jeffster - 04-10-2019, 05:13 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by jgsz - 04-11-2019, 08:07 AM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by jgsz - 04-06-2019, 07:35 AM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by plam - 04-06-2019, 01:58 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by panamaniac - 04-06-2019, 02:56 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by panamaniac - 04-06-2019, 09:33 AM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by tomh009 - 04-06-2019, 01:18 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by jamincan - 04-11-2019, 06:59 AM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by clasher - 04-11-2019, 09:48 AM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by jgsz - 04-11-2019, 09:51 AM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by panamaniac - 04-11-2019, 10:06 AM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by tomh009 - 04-11-2019, 03:07 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by plam - 04-14-2019, 01:46 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by panamaniac - 04-14-2019, 05:40 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by plam - 04-14-2019, 11:57 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by panamaniac - 04-11-2019, 06:09 PM
RE: Bonjour Welcome - by jgsz - 05-01-2019, 06:00 AM

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