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3 04 2008Kelly Lamrock has a letter in the Globe and Mail this morning that can only be described as defensive. Well, defensive and delusional. When will he stop saying that N.B. can achieve 70% bilingualism with a programme that, according it its own criteria, will turn out students who are, at best, “intermediate”? Though to be fair, he doesn’t seem too clear on what bilingualism is: with my own ears I have heard him say that the status of his French was “intermediate” (though that was enough, he went on to say, to debate political opponents en français), while at the CBC roundtable, shortly after Bob Bernier resigned, I believe, he said that he was “fluently bilingual.”
So the standard has been set, and as long as we don’t get a Minister of Education whose French is advanced or better, N.B. kids are good to go.
Great - he has opened the door for a national rebuttal. now we have the door wide open to keep this debate going in the national media. That’s his biggest achilles heel - he can’t leave things alone until he thinks he’s won - and that will never happen because he is so categorically wrong!