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Re: Proposal to merge NS, NB, PEI.I wholeheartedly agree with you; however I expect due to the historical geographical inaccuracy to the current day application that it wouldn't be accepted... still the best and most favourable name I've heard yet. I still hear French speaking folk use the name for that area. |
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said by urbanriot:I wholeheartedly agree with you; however I expect due to the historical geographical inaccuracy to the current day application that it wouldn't be accepted... still the best and most favourable name I've heard yet. I still hear French speaking folk use the name for that area. It is very unlikely that an anglophone New Brunswicker would *ever* want to call themselves an Acadian regardless of the context of the discussion. |
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said by vue666:Atlantica is a name they have proposed in the past... There is also an idea to include Newfoundland & Labrador in the merger... But what benefit would it be for Newfoundland???
Good idea. Combining the populations gives more efficiencies and more economic and political power. Quebec will hate it with a passion. |
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New Brunswick is bilingual, Nova Scotia and PEI are not... so would the new 'province' be bilingual or not... |
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That's a good point, but Nova Scotia and PEI have enough francophone communities that it would make sense for a merged province to be bilingual.
Am I correct in saying that Nova Scotia and PEI already provide, or have promised to provide, more services in French anyway? |
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said by PX Eliezer704:Hey, what about Saint Pierre and Miquelon? Maybe they can be convinced to join prosperous Canada rather than stay with a France that hardly knows they exist.
France sinks a fair chunk of change into SP&M if only to stake a claim on the fish stocks... Anecdotally, I have a friend who's dad was trained as psychiatrist in France, who currently lives in New-Brunswick. He goes to SP&M every summer and the French gov pays him handsomely for it. I think they regard it as a "frontier region" like Alaska or the territories in Canada. |
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said by El Quintron:I think they regard it as a "frontier region" like Alaska or the territories in Canada.
Frontier indeed, France wants to reclaim Newfoundland! From Newfoundland then boats to Labrador, also march to New Brunswick which is already largely francophone, then partner with an eager Quebec. To rival the Canadian federation, that would be a true Arcadian federation as the first new member of a reborn French Community of Nations.... |
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2012-Dec-1 11:49 pm
25% of the population doesn't make somewhere "largely" francophone. "Higher than Average outside Quebec" would be a more fitting term.  |
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33% making it Canada's only official bilingual province...
I think it's a public secret that everybody in New-Brunswick speaks French and English at the same time, and the only people who understand them are other New-Brunswickers...
Case and point it's the only place where you're gonna meet Jean-Guy Tremblay who doesn't speak a word of French but yet speaks English with a French accent.
eg: "No I don' speak Frensh dere, I only speaka da Henglish. Do I soun Frensh tooo yoooo?" |
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Either way, I wouldn't call 33% "largely" The intermingling of French and English mid-sentence that occurs among some people in New Brunswick is interesting, but there's quite a regional division as far as what is francophone and what is anglophone in the province. Once you start getting down in and around Fredericton it's about as English as anywhere in Southern Ontario, and - according to a very good friend of mine who lives there - there is a certain resentment among some people toward all the bilingualism. To which, as I said earlier, there are New Brunswickers who will fight tooth and nail against ever being associated with the name Acadian, which is why something as neutral at United Maritimes was chosen. |
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said by Gone: there is a certain resentment among some people toward all the bilingualism.
There's always some resentment towards the Franco side of things when they become the dominant economic force... this stuff was a little more aggressive during the Louis Robichaud and Richard Hatfield eras, with the Confederation of Regions party. So nothing new really. |
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said by Gone:as I said earlier, there are New Brunswickers who will fight tooth and nail against ever being associated with the name Acadian
Too bad. Limits their choice of SUV's, too!  
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said by El Quintron:this stuff was a little more aggressive during the Louis Robichaud and Richard Hatfield eras, with the Confederation of Regions party.
So nothing new really. COR may no longer be official opposition, but the resentments still run deep. People think that New Brunswick, being the only officially bilingual province, is all happy happy joy joy, when really it's not. Despite that, they still seem to make due. |
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