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 Peter Kuitenbrouwer on Canada's national anthemPoor O Canada. Will nobody ever learn the words?It really isn't Canadians' fault. Many genuinely want to sing our national anthem. But throughout history, circumstance has conspired against us learning the song. And the latest trend, to sing O Canada partly in English and partly in French, is not making things any easier.In the beginning, when Calixa Laval
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 Peter Kuitenbrouwer on Both Official Languages: Vive le bilinguisme Saturday's National Post carried an editorial, headlined "Speaking of waste ... ," which proclaimed, "Canada isn't a bilingual country." The article mocked Graham Fraser, Canada's Commissioner of Official Languages, for arguing that more government funds must be spent to ensure children become bilingual by the time they finish high school. Mr. Fraser, the editorial claimed, has taken his "harassment campaign to the nation's children."As a bilingual Canadian, this kind of stuff boils my blood. I agree with Mr. Fraser: An earnest attempt to teach Canadians to speak both official languages must remain at the heart of our national project if we are to remain a united Canada.I was born of Dutch parents who chose not to teach me the language of "the old country." We moved to rural western Quebec when I was nine, and my mom sent my two sisters and me to French grade school in the little village of Papineauville. We spoke not a word of French; the other students and staff at
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