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Jack Hamilton (jfh@acm.org) 2004/12/17 12:29

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"Canadian Patriot" <canadian.patriot@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>No our point is to have immigrants who speak their mother tongue and English
>the predominant language in North America. A test was done on the
>Immigration departments own site and using all the same parameters but
>answering once with English and once with French, the French language answer
>was congratulated as having passed and would be successful at application to
>Canada. Is that not unfair?

I don't think so.  If you need French to enter the country (other than
Quebec), that means you don't have enough points in some other area.

I just went though the Skilled Worker test at
<http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/skilled/assess/index.html>; if I gave the
right answers on all the other questions, I could pass with *no* french
skills.

By "right answers", I don't mean "highest possible answer", just some
answer that's not at the bottom.

I think the actual discrimination is not on language skills, but on age.
After all, you can gain more points as an adult in all the other
categories - you can take a French class, for example, and get enough
proficiency to add at least a few points - but you can only lose age
points.




>
>"Jack Hamilton" <jfh@acm.org> wrote in message
>news:r9rmr0ln60hlp7gg4gvr7jfu9l0jcb3f7r@4ax.com...
>> "Canadian Patriot" <canadian.patriot@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>> >Has anyone in your family wanted to immigrate to Canada and been denied?
>Did
>> >you know that if they do not speak French this is most likely the reason.
>>
>> Do you think that someone who speaks neither English nor French should
>> be allowed to immigrate?
>>
>> >Do you feel marginalized and discouraged?  I found a site that was very
>> >encouraging - Language Fairness National at www.languagefairness.com .
>> >Register for their newsletter as it will keep you up to date.  Send the
>link
>> >to family and friends.
>> >
>> >Joining forces with this group is the only hope for English speaking
>> >Canadians.
>>
>> Don't be silly.  English is in no danger of disappearing in Canada.
>>
>>
>> ==
>> Jack Hamilton
>> jfh@acm.org
>>
>> ==
>> In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted comfort and
>security.
>> And in the end, they lost it all - freedom, comfort and security.
>>             Edward Gibbon
>


==
Jack Hamilton
jfh@acm.org

==
In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted comfort and security.
And in the end, they lost it all - freedom, comfort and security.
            Edward Gibbon

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