The Globe and Mail has an editorial today which begins
The speed with which small children can pick up a language is hardly disputable. Countless people on this planet observe it every day. Again and again, solid research has confirmed the phenomenon. Yet the government of the only province in Canada that has declared itself officially bilingual is acting in defiance of this gift of nature. This month, New Brunswick announced that it will wind down the French immersion program in the early grades of Anglophone schools.
And, an excellent commentary in the Times&Transcript by W.E. (Bill) Belliveau.
See the letters in the Telegraph-Journal and The Daily Gleaner.
And Robert Macleod in the T-J also asks, where’s Shawn?
But is the provincial government listening? No. And apparently, there is even more to come.
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