The Canadian Forces just shot themselves in the foot

A policy change that moves the military to selective unilingualism goes against the goals of the new Official Languages Act, and delivers a gift to the separatists.
David McGuinty
Defence Minister David McGuinty. Given the present political context, and because the language policy is discriminatory and counter-intuitive, it should be scrapped, writes Andrew Caddell.

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—My father never considered himself a hero, although in enlisting in the first days of the Second World War and serving as an anti-tank officer in combat in Sicily and Italy, he faced a great deal of risk.  

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