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Those facts are entirely irrelevant to the conversation. You're talking about things that happened over 100 years ago. Yes, in 1890 there were some attempts by English Canada to crush the French language.

In 2006, there is no active movement in Canada to repress French language and culture. There is, however, a movement to repress English language and culture in Quebec. This is a fact, most obviously shown by the language laws, and French school laws, as described by Hopey.

[/ QUOTE ]The Manitoba law introduced in 1890 desribed in the link was just abrogated in 1979, so it's not that old you know.

I don't think asking for commercial signing in french and immigrants to go to school in french is too much to ask and is not repression of anything english. We'll just have to disagree there. By the way, bill 101 is suported by almost everybody here, not just separatists.

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Someone mentioned earlier that Mississipi just officially abolished slavery in (I believe) 1995.

In my home town, there was a law on the books that Negroes couldn't live in the city limits. It was just removed in 1990's.

Does that mean that Mississipi was actively promoting slavery until 1995? Or that there were no black people in my hometown until the 1990's?

No, it means they were old, outdated laws, that nobody cared about anymore. But, they are good fodder for propoganda.

Manitoba has a large French population, and has for a long time.