Wab Kinew Wants to Make Manitoba a Bilingual Province “Like New Brunswick”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEwMBo2UeZQ

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15 Comments

Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 334d (6 replies)

Based

Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 334d (5 replies)

Hey David Eby, please join this fine gentleman.

SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 334d (4 replies)

In BC, Punjabi, Mandarin, and Cantonese each have roughly equal numbers to French speakers, and there are few French speaking enclaves, unlike Manitoba. If you're in Richmond, retail signs and ads are often Chinese first, etc.

azi@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 333d

pentalingual BC 🇭🇰🇨🇳🪯⚜️!!!

Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 334d (2 replies)

However French is the second most spoken language in BC.

SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 334d (1 reply)

Yes, by .25%. Mandarin is .3% less at 6.36% -- splitting hairs.

I am in favour of franco-anglo bilingualism, but would like a postcolonial and regional approach.

I fully expect salish languages to become more popular as well in the next couple of generations.

Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 334d

We definitely need to fund more indigenous language programs.

Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 334d

I agree since english needs to face more competition.

Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 333d

As a monolingual I agree with making the province bilingual. We should guarantee more services and more education opportunities to more Canadians.

nutpantz@feddit.online · 0 pts · 329d (2 replies)
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Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 329d (1 reply)

Wow real strawmaning, I mean you could say the same thing about english in Quebec...

nutpantz@feddit.online · 1 pts · 328d
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BCBoy911@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 333d

Wab

Krudler@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 333d (3 replies)

Fuck is this Kinew guy a clown. I have history with this person so I'm not just talking shit.

Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 333d (2 replies)

You said nothing of substance, so I'm afraid that you are in fact, just talking shit.

Krudler@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 333d (1 reply)

I'm intimately involved with him in the politics of our region. He's nothing but a showboater, and he actually hates his own people. Nothing but a power-grabbing career politician, the worst kind.

Every indigenous organization that I've worked with detests him, as he cannot be trusted

Here he is jabbering shit about bilingualism, meanwhile he completely ignores the actual social problems in our province

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 333d

And you still said a few random insults without any substance whatsoever

I'm sure the guy is a dick, but you're not helping