mars 2013

Yesterday, the Charbonneau Commission again showed how much the main political parties are at the mercy of the businesses that provide so much of their election campaign funding and that enable them at all costs to get into power—and those costs are deducted from the services delivered to the public.... Revelation of these dubious practices, combined with promises not kept by parties once in power, has for several years now resulted in a great majority of voters no longer believing in our democracy.

To show how irrational people can be, we turn our clocks forward instead of adapting our working hours accordingly (for work, school, etc.). Yes, we prefer to force things by changing the actual time of day.

The government wants to make intensive English courses optional in elementary schools and Marie Malavoy has gone a step further by arguing that young people should first learn French correctly before being immersed in a second language. Équipe autonomiste proposes, in its program, that English immersion should begin in Grade 1, when a child’s mind is still malleable and can easily absorb what is being taught. Équipe autonomiste feels young people don’t know French correctly because they’re being educated incorrectly.

The Conseil supérieur de la langue française (Superior Council of the French Language) is concerned about the regression of French as the sole working language (see http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/acces/suite.asp?lien=http://www.rad...). Équipe autonomiste is likewise concerned.