Are you like me? Are you sick and tired of trying to listen to any Canadian politician—including our own Prime Minister—speak in that funky French, no English, no back to French, now English, now both, Frenglish?
You liberals want your two official languages? Even in Victoria? Fine. Speak in English, and then go ahead and repeat everything again in French on your own time. But for goodness sake, stop switching back and forth—sometimes mid-sentence—from English to French and back again, and back back again, making every communication and news conference and news huddle three times longer and even more tedious than it already is, which is plenty long and tedious.
Here’s what Americans say, according to one of Scott Rasmussen’s latest Rasmussen Reports surveys. And Americans don’t even know about the tedium and frustration we endure here in Canada with the insane Francrazy-English. If they did, I imagine the numbers would be even more positive.
84% Say English Should Be America’s Official Language
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Eighty-four percent (84%) of Americans say English should be the official language of the United States. Only nine percent (9%) disagree, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Seven percent (7%) are not sure.
The support for English as the country’s official language remains steady from three years ago.
Eighty-one percent (81%) say a U.S. company should be allowed to require employees to speak English on the job, up four points from November 2007. Thirteen percent (13%) disagree.
Eighty-two percent (82%) also reject the idea that requiring people to speak English is a form of racism or bigotry, up three points from 2007. Just 10% think such a requirement is racist or bigoted.
Support for making English the nation’s official language is strong across partisan lines. The concept is supported by 96% of Republicans, 74% of Democrats and 85% of adults not affiliated with either major party.
Similarly, while 90% of Republicans believe companies should be permitted to require employees to speak English on the job, that view is also shared by 80% of unaffiliateds and 74% of Democrats.
Seventeen percent (17%) of Democrats believe that such a requirement is racist or bigoted, down eight points from 2007. But 90% of Republicans, 85% of unaffiliated adults and 72% of Democrats disagree.
Eighty percent (80%) of U.S. voters believe those who move to America should adopt American culture. This level of support has been roughly consistent for many years. …
beaucoup de la EXTRA:
From the excellent Fraser Institute today:
Governments spending up to $1.8 billion every year to meet federal bilingualism requirements
Canada’s federal government and other bodies subject to the Official Languages Act spend up to $1.8 billion annually providing French-language services, according to a new Institute study.
The report, Official Language Policies at the Federal Level in Canada, measures how much the federal government spent on implementing bilingualism policies in 2006 and estimates how much it would have cost the private sector to offer French translation of federal services instead. Under the current system, all Canadians pay for the provision of French-language services at an estimated cost of $55 per Canadian. But if the private sector were responsible for such translation services, only those requiring access to government in French would pay the associated costs.
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