English-Rights Manifesto: French-Speaking Communities and Year End

english-rights manifesto: Indeed, days before it opened, a neighbour told me bluntly that the wooden barracks that were the temporary home of my new high school would be burned down before year end, according to The Waterloo Record. Had a government at the time of the War Measures Act set up a snitch line to report on so-called barbarian cultural practices or their 1970 equivalent, the French-speaking communities that lived outside Quebec would have been considered by many as the ground zero for the fostering of anti-Canadian values. At the time the school was the target of enough anonymous threats to warrant extra police protection. Those were the days when an English-rights manifesto famously titled Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow became a bestseller in some circles. The masterminds behind the residential school system that destroyed the social fabric of so many of Canada indigenous communities were even more imbued with notions of superiority as to their values. The then-Progressive Conservative party in particular was home to a solid contingent of followers who thought a Quebec-led federal government was out to use official bilingualism to wipe the English language and the country British heritage and values off the Canadian map. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.