French is an asset to Ontario, the bigots be damned

These latest cuts show Franco-Ontarians’ decades-long battle for rights continues.

It’s tone-deaf, argues Andrew Caddell, for Ontario Premier Doug Ford, pictured, to compare Ontario’s 600,000 Franco-Ontarians to the about 600,000 Chinese Ontarians and 600,000 Italian Ontarians, in noting that the province can’t please everybody.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

November 28, 2018

OTTAWA—It has been a long couple of weeks for Franco-Ontarians and their supporters. It began with the announcement by Premier Doug Ford that the French language services commissioner would be eliminated and plans for a French-language university would be scrapped, both as cost-saving measures. ...

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