David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @alllibertynews and 49 others
Methinks a lot of folks may enjoy an ongoing much edited spit and chew within CBC after Trudeau and Scheer came to NB to prance in an Acadian Day Parade N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/08/singers-attack-on-premiers-french-wasnt.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/higgs-french-acadian-congress-1.5249819
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/acadian-celebrate-dieppe-1.5248804
'Bonne fête!': Prime Minister joins National Acadian Day celebrations in Dieppe
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined the event in New Brunswick and walked in the Grand Tintamarre Thursday
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau points to Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer while walking with the crowd during the Tintamarre in celebration of the National Acadian Day and World Acadian Congress in Dieppe, N.B., on Aug. 15, 2019. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is asking Liberal MPs on the House of Commons ethics committee to vote to continue the investigation into the SNC-Lavalin affair, after a scathing report found that the prime minister broke ethics law.
Marc Grandmaison,The Canadian Press
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/higgs-french-acadian-congress-1.5249819
Singer's attack on premier's French wasn't appropriate, says Acadian Society president
Singer for Acadian folk-rock band criticized Blaine Higgs's fluency during National Acadian Day show
· CBC News · Posted: Aug 16, 2019 4:47 PM AT
Hôtesses d'Hilaire lead singer Serge Brideau amended song lyrics during a National Acadian Day performance in Dieppe to call out Premier Blaine Higgs for being unilingual. (Radio-Canada)
The president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick says a nationally televised concert wasn't the appropriate place to call out the province's premier for being unilingual.
The singer for Acadian folk-rock band Hôtesses d'Hilaire incorporated the criticism of Premier Blaine Higgs into a National Acadian Day performance Thursday evening.
Serge Brideau amended the lyrics of the group's song Regarde-moi to say "Look at me with the unilingual premier and his boss Irving."
Brideau said "Look at L'Acadie" as he raised his fists and flashed the middle finger. The crowd of thousands at the concert in Dieppe cheered.
Robert Melanson, president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, didn't condemn the statement but said the event wasn't the right place to make it.
"I think Aug. 15 is a day to put aside our differences and to reunite everybody together and to celebrate," Melanson said. "And to celebrate, that means celebrating with everyone, anglophones included."
Robert Melanson, president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, says the Acadian Day celebration wasn't the place to criticize the premier's language skills. (Jean-Philippe Hughes/Radio-Canada)
Brideau disagreed, telling Radio-Canada on Thursday that the show was the ideal venue.
The concert broadcast on Radio-Canada coincided with the World Acadian Congress, which has drawn thousands to the greater Moncton area.
Higgs was at the concert but said he didn't hear the statement.
"It's a bit disappointing," he said, pivoting to say he's focused on issues such as the economy. He said he meets people around the province, whatever language they speak, who want to see the province succeed.
"I can run into individual pockets of, let's say, emotion, but I've been around long enough that … I still believe together we can fix this."
Higgs, who has been trying to learn French, says he was disappointed in the comments. (Jean-Philippe Hughes/Radio-Canada)
The premier took part in the celebrations earlier in the day, speaking in French.
Melanson, who heard that speech, said Higgs's French has improved during his time in office.
The two met Thursday to discuss various issues affecting New Brunswick francophones, including immigration.
Higgs's fluency became an issue during the 2018 election.
On Thursday, Higgs said he still has difficulty conversing in French but can read documents and deliver prepared speeches.
He said he's made progress on learning French, though would likely have to spend weeks or months fully immersed to become bilingual.
"In the meantime, my focus is that I want people to realize that regardless of my shortcomings in the language field, they will recognize that my dedication, and my interest, spreads all across this province," Higgs said.
With files from Radio-Canada
369 Comments I quit commenting after a lot went "Poof" at the 333 mark
Commenting is now closed for this story.
Bill Thompson
What is the point of knowing two languages if you refuse to speak one of them and then ridicule everyone who doesn't speak the other?
Kelly Sherrard
I hate to break it to this idiot but you DON'T HAVE TO BE FRENCH OR BILINGUAL to be a premier of a province It requires BRAINS AND INTELLIGENCE and a lot of common sense. This province is in the mess it is in because people think that a Premier has to be Acadian first or bilingual. WAKE UP PEOPLE! I don't care of the Premier speaks Russian or Mandarin as long as they can get this province out of the hole and stop the hemorrhage of anglophones because the gov't thinks you have to be bilingual to work here
Leslie Jackson
Reply to @kelly sherrard: why hire someone who can't do the job but is bilingual ? So they can be inept in two languages ???
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @kelly sherrard: I had yet to hear someone state that the Premier had to be Acadian first. You just made it up.
Dan Lee
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps:
never heard that line before...it shows the resentment...............
never heard that line before...it shows the resentment...............
Bob Smith
If an anglophone entertainer directed derogatory remarks like this towards Melanson during Loyalist Days, Melanson would condemn it and demand the entertainer be banned from ever appearing at a government fund event again. However, this...gets a shoulder shrug and approval from like minded folks.
Leslie Jackson
Reply to @Bob Smith:
they also tend to forget that when Britain purchased, fair and square,
what is know today as Canada from France .. they said sure, you can
keep your language and religion... something the French never allowed
the First Nation people (cough, cough)
Dan Lee
Reply to @Leslie Jackson
hahaha.....where were you born......Pluto
hahaha.....where were you born......Pluto
Claude DeRoche
Old Blain is getting ready for his million dollar federal election campaign in Alberta,
already there twice on our dime!
The three Amigos;
Higgs, Ford and Kenney
Mario Doucet
Perfect example of what's wrong with NB and why no body wants to live here.
Claude DeRoche
Agree Higgs must go!
Lou Bell
Reply to @Claude
DeRoche: You're stuck with him for quite a few more years . Love it or
leave. Enjoy what's comin' and yer c ah lt meetings .
Toby Tolly
Reply to @Claude DeRoche:
you translated that wrong
.....why i dont trust anything translated
you translated that wrong
.....why i dont trust anything translated
Marc Martin
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He has the right to express his opinion, I get attack here because I am French why dont the complainers talk then ?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
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Reply to @Marc Martin: So you seem to believe your rights are better than other peoples rights.
Claude DeRoche
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Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre:
You said that! LOL!
You said that! LOL!
Bernie Heather McIntyre
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: What?
Lou Bell
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Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Claude has a comprehension problem .
Bernie Heather McIntyre
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Reply to @Lou Bell: Seems that way.
Lou Bell
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Reply to @Marc Martin: Is that you or Marc uerite ?
Bill Thompson
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Reply to @Marc Martin:
I'm Canadian. What part of France are you from?
I'm Canadian. What part of France are you from?
Dan Lee
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Reply to @Bill Thompson
Your a Canadian who hates french
Your a Canadian who hates french
David Stairs
just another arrogant self obsorbed Frenchman without a clue or any respect for anyone but his kind...
Marc Martin
Content disabled It was already gone before I could save it
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marc Martin: And what would your reaction be if an Anglophone sung the equivalent ????????
Claude
DeRoche
Reply to @Lou Bell:
That would be hard on the Crown Prince of Bermuda!
That would be hard on the Crown Prince of Bermuda!
Dan Lee
Reply to @David Stairs:
just another arrogant englishman who wants to dominate the rest
just another arrogant englishman who wants to dominate the rest
Mario Doucet
Bilingualism is way past it's due date, English NB will never vote for more French again.
Claude DeRoche
Content disabled It was already gone before I could save it
Mario Doucet
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: lmao
Marc Martin
Then why is more then half the province voting for parties that support bilingualism ?
Lou Bell
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Still have a comprehension problem I see . That's what we mean .
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marc Martin: If they are , why are the Conservatives able to rule as they wish ? Methinks you don't understand .
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marc Martin: The only thing propping up the SANB is the Liberal appointed SANB judges .
Mario Doucet
SANB says not appropriate, the public says disgraceful.
Marc Martin
Content disabled It was already gone before I could save it
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marc Martin: We call them " the minority ". Guess that includes you .
Marguerite
Deschamps
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Reply to @Lou Bell: we speak and write English and French better than you. That sure makes us a minority.
Shane Bernagh
SANB seems to be a more radical french version of COR
Claude DeRoche
Agree! Higgs was to radical, reason why he lost the leadership of the COR Party!
Lou Bell
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks the whole SANB caucus got defeated last election . out on their rears.
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell:
the elusive Higgs Bozon needed to get support from his anti-French roots
in order to cling to power and call this a defeat "out on their rear".
He's hanging by a thread with his lackey from Shippagan.
Claude DeRoche
Shame on him for not applauding the COR Party Boy !
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: It seems that some people love to keep N.B divided.
Claude
DeRoche
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre:
Agree!
Higgs a failed leadership contender for the COR Party,
the membership at the time felt he was to radical.
Agree!
Higgs a failed leadership contender for the COR Party,
the membership at the time felt he was to radical.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Claude
DeRoche: Sometime it's hard to talk to some people that have a one
dimensional mind And I am not talking about Higgs.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude
DeRoche: Methinks you are gonna continue to beat on the SANB drum all
day no matter how many of your comments go "Poof" N'esy Pas?David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: HMMMM
Marc Martin
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: I am glad you have noticed your wrong doing.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: Hey where you been. I see your still have your dividing way of thinking. And what wrong have I done?
Welby Trutthough
We have bigger problems than language that we need to deal with. I posted this comment on an article about space and it was disabled by our supposedly impartial taxpayer funded national broadcaster : "I cannot understand how people mock Christianity and Christians. It's clear that there is an explanation for existence and the universe. The fact that there is something about the concept of space and time that the human mind cannot comprehend tells us that Christian teaching is not ludicrous, as the media and government would have us believe. New Brunswick is still 85% Christian, with 50% attending regularly and we couldn't have a stronger society. The truth is in the Bible, it's God's word ."
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Welby
Trutthough: getting a little off the subject here aren't we. That's an
other subject that many People have a different opinions of.
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @Welby
Trutthough: le Crisse d'Austin would agree with you. As Mahatma Gandhi
said: — 'I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your
Christians are so unlike your Christ.'
Welby
Trutthough
Reply to @Bernie
Heather McIntyre: And the reason I'm posting that here is because it
gets disabled on the article I originally posted it on and I think it
highlights that the people of this province and country have much bigger
issues than language to worry about. It's clear there is an anti
Christian, pro drugs, movement in this country that wants to silence
anyone who disagrees with it.
Welby
Trutthough
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Are you saying I'm not Christ like? I've never heard of le
Crisse d'Austin, could you please explain the meaning. I have heard the
Mahatma Gandhi quote before. I do find true Christians are very Christ
like.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks the lawyer Mahatma Gandhi would get a laugh out
watching your SANB buddy Claude DeRoche turn into a unholy ghost before
our very eyes N'esy Pas?
Claude
DeRoche
Reply to @Welby Trutthough:
There are almost 5,000 gods being worshipped by humanity.
But don’t worry, only yours is right!
There are almost 5,000 gods being worshipped by humanity.
But don’t worry, only yours is right!
Welby
Trutthough
Reply to @Claude
DeRoche: There are hundreds of varieties of healthy apples, doesn't mean
one of them isn't the healthiest. I worship the Christian God as the
one true God because Christianity is what makes sense to me, it's what
is logical, it's what I belief. That's not to say there aren't endless
possibilities, perhaps God revealed himself differently according to
culture. There are areas of similar message between all the world's
religions. I believe the Christian God is the one true God and therefor
is the God I worship.
Welby
Trutthough
Reply to @Claude
DeRoche: I should also add, that the point isn't that I have to prove
that I'm right, the point is that I'm free to believe what I want and I
should be free to post a completely valid point of view on a science
article, on the taxpayer funded, impartial, national broadcaster.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Yup, Now you see this article is getting lost here.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Yes I agree but not on an article that has no similar points to what your have brought up.
Welby
Trutthough
Reply to @Bernie
Heather McIntyre: That's the point of my comment. This article needs to
get lost, the language divide needs to get lost. We've got bigger
problems. For one thing a dangerous psychotropic drug that causes
psychosis is being freely sold and promoted by the government. Our
future generations need people to stand up for what is right.
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: "God revealed "himself"? Are you sure she's not "herself"?
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Let's not get into that :)
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: We'll have to disagree.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks Mother Nature is laughing at both of you N'esy Pas?
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @Welby
Trutthough: "le Crisse d'Austin", the Christian pastor leading the
People's Alliance party that persecutes Francophones in New
Nouveau-Brunswick.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks you and Mr Higgs no doubt know what church that my
political foe the conservative lawyer Rob Moore is a director of N'esy
Pas"?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks you are also very well aware as to why i sued
Cardinal Bernard Francis Law in 2002 N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: Bingo.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Persecutes. A lot of exaggerating here are we.
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Thank you for explaining
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: they should have closed this shady organisation and seized thier assets a long time ago.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Isn't the PANB leader a Christian ? So does that make all Christians anti-French ?
Lou Bell
Marc Martin
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Isn't the PANB leader a Christian ? So does that make all Christians anti-French ?
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Who have they persecuted ? Oh , maybe the MINOR scuffle 250
years ago that the SANB whiners keep bringing up. They were welcomed
back to a country run by a different government who wanted citizens
expressing allegiance to it , NOT their enemy ! Although allowed back in
swearing they would , they didn't then , and don't now. +
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: You're right. SANB should have been completely banned before
the Liberal sellout solely for votes .
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marc Martin: I guess that makes all SANB 'ers anti Christian .
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: I
have no affiliations with the SANB. Not only am I anti-Christian, I am
anti-religious. I criticize them all!
Lou Bell
Singing to a few thousand SANB one issue Liberals
Marc Martin
Reply to @Lou Bell: But irritated a few CoR / PANB followers in the process !!!! Joy !!!
Lou Bell
Marc Martin
Reply to @Lou Bell: But irritated a few CoR / PANB followers in the process !!!! Joy !!!
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marc
Martin: You and your SANB cohorts have shown their true colours . Anti
Anglophone all the way. Admit it . That's their SANB / Liberal platform .
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: correction; we are anti-COR PANB!
BruceJack Speculator
was this brideau guy's musical performance any good, or was his action the only way he could get noticed?
David R. Amos
Reply to @BruceJack Speculator: Good question
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: he's got a style similar to yours with the beard and all.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: You mean that was not Davis on that stage ???
Lou Bell
Reply to @BruceJack Speculator: The SANB Anti-Chr--t .
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: you've been reading too many old books. They are only old myths.
Claude DeRoche
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The Irving Boy needs to save his travel expenses,
he needs millions to fight a federal election in Alberta!
It already started with the gas tank campaign stickers!
He never quit his day job at Irving!
The Irving Boy needs to save his travel expenses,
he needs millions to fight a federal election in Alberta!
It already started with the gas tank campaign stickers!
He never quit his day job at Irving!
Lou Bell
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: He serves all the people in the province, unlike the past SANB Liberals who served a minority ! Nice to see the dog wagging the tail again instead of the tail wagging the dog !
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: He serves all the people in the province, unlike the past SANB Liberals who served a minority ! Nice to see the dog wagging the tail again instead of the tail wagging the dog !
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you are gonna beat on the drum all day N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: HMMM
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: HMMM
Claude DeRoche
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Who does he serve when he campaigns in Alberta for a federal election?
Who does he serve when he campaigns in Alberta for a federal election?
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks I should ask that question within Twitter N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks I should ask that question within Twitter N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Tell us about the McKenna trips with his SANB caucus. The ones he claimed were promoting trade. You know , the ones where trade WAS DECREASING EVERY YEAR as they were going on . Until caught , of course !
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Tell us about the McKenna trips with his SANB caucus. The ones he claimed were promoting trade. You know , the ones where trade WAS DECREASING EVERY YEAR as they were going on . Until caught , of course !
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks you must have read my letters to McKenna in 2004 by now N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks you must have read my letters to McKenna in 2004 by now N'esy Pas?
Claude DeRoche
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Reply to @Lou Bell:
Did McKenna fight a federal election on our dime?
Reply to @Lou Bell:
Did McKenna fight a federal election on our dime?
Claude DeRoche
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Freedom of speech ends when you criticize our COR Party / Irving Boy Premier.
Freedom of speech ends when you criticize our COR Party / Irving Boy Premier.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks Freedom of Speech ends when it turns into hate speech, slander and libel N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Me thinks that some people here are smoking to much of the legal stuff.
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Me thinks that some people here are smoking to much of the legal stuff.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Hmmm Methinks that was a rather telling thing to block N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Hmmm Methinks that was a rather telling thing to block N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: I don't smoke dope and rarely have a drink.
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: I don't smoke dope and rarely have a drink.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
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Reply to @David R. Amos: Wasn't talking about you David. Me thinks saying was out of respect.
Reply to @David R. Amos: Wasn't talking about you David. Me thinks saying was out of respect.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Cool
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Cool
Marguerite
Deschamps
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Reply to @David R. Amos: I must commend you for it. Neither do I.
Reply to @David R. Amos: I must commend you for it. Neither do I.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Too bad you can't read all my comments
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: HMMMM
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: HMMMM
Jason Bright
I
guess not a single person in charge of recruiting musical acts bothered
to look into the band's history? It's just a little Rock'n'Roll
showmanship, you know?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jason Bright: C'est vrai
Claude DeRoche
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Higgs a failed candidate at the COR Party leadership,
the membership felt he was to radical
the Ïrving Boy is now our Premier!
Higgs a failed candidate at the COR Party leadership,
the membership felt he was to radical
the Ïrving Boy is now our Premier!
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you should try telling us something we don't already know N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you should try telling us something we don't already know N'esy Pas?
Bernie
Heather McIntyre
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Reply to @David R. Amos: Welcome to the circus again Big Brother seems to be watching again , Got the CD again.
Reply to @David R. Amos: Welcome to the circus again Big Brother seems to be watching again , Got the CD again.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks everybody knows how much I enjoy the circus Did you listen to the CD and enjoy it? Anyone can Google David Amos wiretap and enjoy it too N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks everybody knows how much I enjoy the circus Did you listen to the CD and enjoy it? Anyone can Google David Amos wiretap and enjoy it too N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
There always 1 bad apple in the barrel to ruin it.
Claude DeRoche
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre:
AGREE!
HP 08/16/2019
Trudeau, Scheer Had Awkward Exchange Celebrating National Acadian Day In New Brunswick
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre:
AGREE!
HP 08/16/2019
Trudeau, Scheer Had Awkward Exchange Celebrating National Acadian Day In New Brunswick
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks you have picked up a fan N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Yes Trudeau look pretty stupid with the meeting with Sheer.
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Yes Trudeau look pretty stupid with the meeting with Sheer.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks it was a meeting of Dumb and Dumber N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: Oh I agree 100 %. I here there making an other movie with these 2 . Dumberer and Dumbest.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: Oh my.
Lou Bell
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: That barrel was pretty well full of SANB Liberals . Language only crowd , nothing more .
Marc
Martin
Reply to @Claude
DeRoche: Sheer is desperate to get has much votes he can, by the way
people tend to forget the Atlantic regions where like a cancer for
Stephen Harper, he brought np positive here while in power 10 years +
Marc
Martin
Reply to @Lou Bell: You where there ?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc
Martin: Trudeau seems to be the desperate one. Trying to by votes with
tax payers money putting Canada deeper in debt.
Marguerite Deschamps
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Bernie
Heather McIntyre: "I here there making an other movie with these 2 .
Dumberer and Dumbest." Are you sure English is your first languages?
Claude
DeRoche
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We
live in a strange world, it was bad that Gallant supported his Acadian
heritage with the SANB, but we must venerate a COR Party Premier! LOL!
Barb Flewwelling
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Reply to @Claude
DeRoche: Former COR Party member. Does the COR Party still exist?
Blaine Higgs seems to be an inclusive rather than exclusive personality
whatever his beliefs were in the past. I haven’t heard him ranting
against bilingualism.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude
DeRoche: Methinks you are gonna beat on the drum all day and I am gonna
enjoy taking the wind out of your sails N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Hmmm
Welby Trutthough
His
costume looks very creepy, like a wizard, or satanic. I wish we could
be proud of our two main linguistic communities without the need to
impose bilingualism on everyone. I would have absolutely no problem
with a unilingual francophone premier so I don't understand why anyone
has a problem with our wonderful premier who is learning to speak in two
languages. We need to unite in New Brunswick, let go of the past,
build understanding, create an environment where nobody feels their
language and heritage is under threat. I don't understand the
insistence by a bilingual minority that everyone and everything be
bilingual. Sure, billingualism is great and more billingual people
would be great, but the way the tiny bilingual minority goes about
imposing it on everyone is only creating division and quite frankly is a
bit supremacist. We live in a country where the federal government
sells marijuana and persecutes Christians, perhaps we should unite in
mutual respect and be thankful that the best anglophone Canadians live
in New Brunswick and the best francophone Canadians live in New
Brunswick.
Daryl Doucette
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Good luck finding a unilingual francophone here in New Brunswick.
David R. Amos
Reply to @daryl doucette: They are rare
Daryl Doucette
Reply to @David R. Amos: your not kiddin!
Welby
Trutthough
Reply to @daryl
doucette: Well there are certainly many francophones who are more
comfortable speaking in French and have better understanding speaking in
French. I think everyone is more comfortable speaking in their native
language. I am against government imposed bilingualism, but that cuts
both ways. I don't believe an English person has automatic rights to
government services in English in the peninsula, just the same as I
don't believe that a New Brunswicker has automatic rights to services in
French in Woodstock. Without government imposed billingualism I think
the people of this province would manage just fine. In mostly
francophone areas, those providing services would likely be
francophones. In mostly anglophone areas, anglophones. In truly
bilingual areas, there'd be more bilingual people working. In areas
where there were unilingual francophones and unilingual anglophones,
there'd be a mix of francophone and anglophone staff. The point is, we
don't need the government meddling in our lives and denying born and
bred New Brunswickers (of either linguistic community) government job
opportunities simply based on the fact that they aren't bilingual. Why
does a hospital employee in Caraquet need to know English, and why does a
hospital employee in Woodstock need to know French? What difference
does it make to the job they perform?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Welby
Trutthough: ". I would have absolutely no problem with a unilingual
francophone premier". - Never gonna happen. Can you say this with a
straight face? If you wouldn't have a problem, I know many here who
would, including me.
Welby
Trutthough
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Why do you never take me at my word? If he couldn't even so
much as say "hello" in English, but he banned marijuana and did other
things I think need to be done, then I'd say he was the best premier we
ever had.
Greg
Windsor
Reply to @daryl
doucette: .... well I have encountered a few up north who either did not
speak English or would not, and sadly I think the would not is correct
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Greg
Windsor: this is completely false. I travel the whole province and
unilingual Anglophones are treated with much more respect up North than a
Francophone who dares to speak French down South.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: PURE D BS
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: have you even been up North ?
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: This is true. I can go to Edmonton and speak English and
nobody blinks, I can imagine that people would be shocked in anglophone
areas to have someone come up and begin speaking French to them.
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Edmunston! auto correct!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks you SANB dudes forgot that my Acadian friend Roger
Richard also ran in the last election N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: You are completely false. I was up in Kouchibouguac Park
went into a store the person refused to speak English which is his right
but I know enough French to tell him what I thought of his attitude and
left without spending any money there,. His lost and this is a tourist
area. And no I am not bilingual.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Where do you think Roger Richard lives?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply
to @Welby Trutthough: Why would people in anglophone areas be shocked
there is more than Anglophone and Francophone people living all over
this province who native language is neither.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: Well let me Guess, Northern N.B.
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: you made this up. It ever happened and you know it.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: furthermore, it's a two way street. If Francophones would boycott every place where they could not be served in French, guess who would be on the losing end? Now you know how we feel.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: many times Francophones cannot receive French service at the TH in Saint-Louis-de-Kent, right next to Kouchibouguac National Park!
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: No you don't know how I feel since my Language is near
obsolete and 40 % of NBer's have Keltic heritage compared to 30% of
French so you have no clue and just want to keep N.B divided.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Your just making that up.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks everybody knows my that friend Roger Richard lives in Saint-Louis-de-Kent and I as the Chief of the Amos Clan (who does not have much respect for snobby Anglos who think they understand other cultures) have always felt more welcome in that area by my fellow New Brunswickers Perhaps folks should ask me why I was also welcome in Lousiana back in the 1980s N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: Very good my friend and as I have been brought up , if you give respect you shall receive it from me no matter what language or race one would be.
Marc Martin
Reply to @daryl doucette: There are a lot of them, only ignorant people tend to believe the opposite.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Welby
Trutthough: Most services have been concentrated in Fredericton, in fact
id say 80% + are. So what is your solution to put back all the services
in the regions ?
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: I absolutely agree with you, there will never be a unilingual
premier ever, can you imagine the outrage ? And yet we are the entitled
ones.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: omg you dont have to go south, people still snear at me when I
speak French here in Fredericton.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Their kind make a lot of things up...get used it.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Keltic is not an official language now is it ?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: Oh so now your saying Higgs is not a unilingual premier.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: No it isn't but we don't cry about it like your kind.
Claude DeRoche
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New Brunswicker's need to unite under our COR Party / English Speaking Association Premier!
Barb Flewwelling
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Whoa buddy! Climb down from your high horse!
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Barb Flewwelling: Methinks folks should enjoy knocking him off it N'esy Pas?
Lewis Taylor
It doesn't take much to start a language fight in NB. It is like a match to dry kindling. Haters just waiting to pounce because of a stupid comment by an irrelevant artist. People need to take a valium or two and go get some fresh air.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Methinks you are pretty good at picking a fight as well N'esy Pas?
Marilyn Carr
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: what do you mean START? lol
Dan Lee
Reply to @Marilyn Carr:
Yes it is the english nature to want everything from everybody..........so there is no start and no end untill it is taken
Yes it is the english nature to want everything from everybody..........so there is no start and no end untill it is taken
Barb Flewwelling
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: United we stand! Do we really want a divided NB?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Barb Flewwelling: It already is
McKenzie King
The singer obviously understand the English that Premier Higgs spoke, so what's the problem??? Language is simply a communications tool. We need to start looking at ways that we are similar and stop celebrating ways in which we are different.
David R. Amos
Reply to @McKenzie King: Vive la différence
Claude DeRoche
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David R. Amos
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you should say hey to your beloved SANB puppet our former liberal Premier N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
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Marguerite Deschamps
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David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Did you see there?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: I thought I saw you at the raising of the Acadian flag in Riverside-Albert.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: I thought I saw you at the raising of the Acadian flag in Riverside-Albert.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks the photo offered in this article attests to the
fact that some old Maritimers look a lot alike but I bet you are one of
the ones bald ones who are as common as mud and jealous of our hair
N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @McKenzie King: What is the premier was French only ?
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @Marc Martin: a French only Premier? It will never happen.
David R. Amos
Welcome to the Circus
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R.
Amos: Methinks at lot of Anglos who hate my beard and my Chiac must have
read Serge Brideau's shirt by now N'esy Pas?
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: he could pass as your twin.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: You mean that was not Davis on the stage ?
Mario Doucet
In a majority English speaking province a premier speaking French is just another option not a requirement.
Dan Lee
Reply to @Mario Doucet:
Not if he needs seats
Not if he needs seats
David R.
Amos
Reply to @Dan Lee: True
Marc Bourque
As a Francophone ,I find this deplorable.There is a time and place to criticize.......
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marc Bourque: I agree
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marc Bourque: Actually the right to expression might disagree with you.
Jonas Smith
Im fully bilingual, but all this does is reinforce the view that francophones won't consider Anglos bilingual unless they speak fluent french. I've let a great deal of francophones pass with their less than perfect English skills cause I know first hand how hard it is to learn a second language.
Claude DeRoche
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Marilyn Carr
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: SANB is the COR party for the french.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: You seem to be stuck in the year 1991. Wake up it's 2019.
David R. Amos
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Marilyn Carr: YUPDavid R. Amos
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: Hmmmm
Marc Martin
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: You should know as your part of COR.
Graeme Scott
Robert Melanson, president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, [B]didn't condemn the statement[/B]
That kind of says it all.
Donald Smith
Reply to @Graeme Scott: Yup, there it is ?
Marilyn Carr
Reply to @Graeme Scott: SANB is the cor party for the french.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: YUP
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: You should know I guess your part of COR.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: Wake up . Its'2019 not1991.
Claude DeRoche
An insult to the Irving COR Party Boy!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks that was blatantly obvious N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: People who live in a 1 dimensional world wouldn't see that.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: the unilingual 1 dementional world!
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Any 1 dimensional world.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Not really an insult if its the truth.
David White
A
jokey novelty act that is appreciated by a small audience. Supported by
funding from the taxpayers. Who cares what the guy says?
David White
They need all the attention they can get since no one knows who they are outside there friends.
David White
*their friends
David R. Amos
Reply to @David White: I care
Marc Martin
Reply to @David White: Scotland games where supported by the tax payers also..
..
..
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: What is Scotland games?
Mike Steeves
why the hell should he even have to learn french? he can get and interpreter
Claude DeRoche
Reply to @Mike Steeves:
Please translate to English?
Please translate to English?
John Smith
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: more like translate the accent eh yall
John Smith
Reply to @john smith: dialects and accents happen in all languages
Al Clark
Reply to @Mike Steeves: LOL a lovely illustration of the fact that many COR can't speak, read, or write IN ENGLISH!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Clark: Oh My My
Marc Martin
Reply to @Mike Steeves: Yes lets pay more money for the premier !!! you must have voted vor PANB...
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: Wake up this is 2019 were there are apps for it. And guess what there free.
Lou Bell
Sorry Serge , the tail wagging the dog isn't in the cards. Try harder ! You , Marc , and Marc uerite .
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Is your menu in French?
Marc Martin
Reply to @Lou Bell: Why would you call yourself that horrible animal name !!!
Lou Bell
Same people wanting to copy 1st nations call for recognition of genocide. It happened 250 years ago . Get over it ! Is there any group more self indulgent than the SANB in NB ? Nope !
Mike Steeves
Reply to @Lou Bell: i don't think they know what genocide actually means.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks Mr Higgsand his buddies in the Irving Clan are rather self indulgent N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Anyone who aspires to become Premier should have become bilingual a long time ago. Higgs has no excuse for his linguistic shortcomings.
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Language should be a token requirement at best. Intelligence
Trumps it every time , except of course when the SANB Liberals are in
office .
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell:
intelligent people can learn the two official languages. The elusive
Higgs Boson is just an Irving puppet.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you SANB dudes should try telling folks something they don't already know N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Agree.
Wayne Mac Arthur
This incident should spark the demand that all school children should be graduated as fully functionally bilingual.The demand should come from the anglo segment of the population who should not allow any thing to deter them from that goal,no matter who or what must suffer to make it a reality.
Mike Steeves
Reply to @Wayne Mac
Arthur: our kids should NOT need to learn the language of a minority in
NB to get jobs at all. in what business sense does it make to punish 70
percent of the population by forcing them to learn a language spoken by
30 percent?? annnnd only 2 percent said they were not fully functional
in English. Only in NB would they make suck a stupid requirement. this
is not bigotry, its just common sense. we need to wake the hell up. 30
percent of the population should equal 30 percent bilingual requirement
Catherine Stephenson
Reply to @Mike
Steeves: you're forgetting that the French should also learn English.
There's a good many who don't. And what of those who move here? I
grew up in small town Southern Ontario. Knowing French as a 2nd language
is useless there.
Mike
Steeves
Reply to @Catherine Stephenson : Amen. its baffles me how stupid our politicians are
Junkman George
Reply to @Mike Steeves:
What "baffles" me is our politicians think we are too stupid to notice.
What "baffles" me is our politicians think we are too stupid to notice.
John Smith
Reply to @Wayne Mac
Arthur: that could be a good way too look at things then a fully
functional dialect accent would be recognised officially
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Catherine Stephenson : you are not in Ontario here!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Nor are you
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R.
Amos: I am in bilingual New Nouveau-Brunswick and fluently bilingual to
boot. I can even speak Chiac better than you although I hate the
dialect.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Of that I have no doubt but why not admit that you are dude as well?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: why, do you have something against transgemders?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: There are lots of bilingual people living in N.B. just maybe not French and English.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Mike
Steeves: You need to be bilingual to work in all jobs in NB ?? I think
maybe its time for you to get out of the bayou.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Catherine Stephenson : Maybe you should move back to Ontario ?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: not a lot! Again, such a bogus statement!
Wayne Mac Arthur
The statement by Mr Melanson had much the same as a one from The Donald, halfhearted and insincere.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Wayne Mac Arthur:
Melanson said that the celebration was not the time or the place so tell me Mr. Robert Melanson ( SANB )... Exactly when would be the time and the place for a person to act so ignorant ?
Melanson said that the celebration was not the time or the place so tell me Mr. Robert Melanson ( SANB )... Exactly when would be the time and the place for a person to act so ignorant ?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Good question
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Mack Leigh: we know, according to you, anyone who is not unilingual Anglophone is ignorant.
Joseph Vachier
good to know that racism is alive and strong in dieppe
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Joseph Vachier: even more across the chocolate river
Dan Lee
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps
yup and Joseph has been impartial on theses sites for years........
yup and Joseph has been impartial on theses sites for years........
Marc Martin
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: racism ? Someone didn't finish 3 grade in school....
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: Check your answer Marc.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks he is still stuck in grade 2 N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
"Look
at me with the unilingual premier and his boss Irving." At least he got
that part right. I've read it many times here by the anti-Francophone
posters.
"In the meantime, my focus is that I want people to realize that regardless of my shortcomings in the language field, they will recognize that my dedication, and my interest, spreads all across this province," Higgs said. - Actions speak louder than words. He cut all funds north of Sussex and Fundy and he is clinging to power with the help of an anti-Francophone party which he has an affinity to
"In the meantime, my focus is that I want people to realize that regardless of my shortcomings in the language field, they will recognize that my dedication, and my interest, spreads all across this province," Higgs said. - Actions speak louder than words. He cut all funds north of Sussex and Fundy and he is clinging to power with the help of an anti-Francophone party which he has an affinity to
Joseph Vacher
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: those business up north deserve to fail. Its not the governments job to keep them employed
Greg Windsor
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: .....and how do you think actions like Brideau did, to
insult the Premier, a VIP guest at this fiasco, will help relations
between the English and French ? And you wonder why anti french
elements are on the rise in NB? There is your answer.....
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: just like Saint John!
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Greg Windsor: he cut everything up North as soon as he came in power, way before Serge Brideau came along.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Greg Windsor: I concur
Marc Martin
Reply to @Joseph
Vacher: But what about the failing business south do we let them die too
? I work for the government there are a lot of them.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Greg
Windsor: The English always hated the French that's nothing new and will
never change, any premier should be bilingual.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: You just said in an earlier post that the Premier was bilingual.
Luke Armstrong
That's just ridiculous and in such poor taste. Dude needs a shave.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Luke Armstrong: Methinks a lot folks know why I am enjoying this spit and chew far more than you N'esy Pas?
James Vander
This
statement is not going to help the Acadiens' cause at all and is in
very poor taste. French is not that easy to master; just ask anyone who
uses chiac. At least Higgs is trying......
Mike Steeves
Reply to @James Vander: most of the french around here can 't speak french at all. So............
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mike Steeves: Exactly
Marc Martin
Reply to @Mike Steeves: Most of the English cant speak proper English so what's your point ?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: And I guess you speak proper French.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks proper is the last thing that SANB dude N'esy Pas?
Roland Stewart
lol Look at the guy, don't need to say any more.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Roland Stewart: Methinks I resemble that remark N'esy Pas? Now lets have a look at you.
Mac Isaac
I
disagree with Premier Higgs on a lot of things; most of them have to do
with policy and political ideology BUT I do not, and never have,
attributed his lack of fluency in French to be a reason to ridicule him.
I wish he were fluently bilingual, just as I wish all politicians who
wish to hold political office in Canada's one and only officially
bilingual provinces SHOULD be bilingual. At least Premier Higgs, for all
his failings as a Premier, is trying as best as he can to address all
New Brunswick's citizens and THAT should rightfully be celebrated; not
laughed at.
Brian Robertson
Reply to @Mac Isaac:
Not until it is duly ratified in a referendum.
Until then, it is simply a proclimation declared by Louis Robichaud that was subsequently endorsed by other political parties.
The issue was never put to the people as a stand alone issue.
Not until it is duly ratified in a referendum.
Until then, it is simply a proclimation declared by Louis Robichaud that was subsequently endorsed by other political parties.
The issue was never put to the people as a stand alone issue.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Brian Robertson: True
Marc Martin
Reply to @Brian Robertson: Then vote for a party that is anti-French 100% like PANB , that's how a democracy works.
Greg
Windsor
A
total disgrace, and we English are not supposed to be offended by such
actions.! I am sure this "show" of acadian pride was well sponsored by
tax payers..... time to cut the funding to this radical bunch. I well
remember many years ago when this acadian show was held in the outskirts
of Memramcook, probably the first time ever, and the Royal Union flag
was burned on stage and jokes made against the Queen.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Greg Windsor: Methinks the next election will be a telling thing for the SANB N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @Greg Windsor: I didn't go to the Irish games in Fredericton, they are a radical group funded by the government....
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Greg
Windsor: why; are you one of those who think our head of state should be
a descendant of tyrants from a bygone era? It IS a joke!
Mark Harvey
Higgs
was disappointed by the comments eh? Hey Blaine...here's an idea. How
about you show your disappointment by giving the Order of New Brunswick
to Michel Doucet? You know, the same Michel Doucet that 'liked' and
're-tweeted' a comment praising this 'singer' for calling you out in
public. Time to drop a set Higgs. Seriously.
Junkman George
Reply to @Mark Harvey:
How about he curb ALL funding for these silly displays of foolishness?
Blaine wants to cut............ this is where he should start.
How about he curb ALL funding for these silly displays of foolishness?
Blaine wants to cut............ this is where he should start.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Junkman George: I agree
Bill Thompson
Someone should tell Brideau and his ilk that 'chiac' is not French. No more than Welsh is English.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bill Thompson: Who said it was?
Bill Thompson
And
the clown in the picture criticizes Premier for his fluency in the
French language but yet he has the words " super chiac baby" on his
gown..
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bill Thompson: and your point is?
Bill Thompson
That’s how you kill a language, make people who are trying to learn the language feel like it’s not worth the effort to even try.
And the clown in the picture criticizes Premier for his fluency in the French language but yet he has the words " super chiac baby" on his gown..
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bill Thompson: Please get to the point
James Johnstone
No more taxpayer funding for private interest groups be they language or any other group.
This nonsense and waste of money has to stop. Give a group an inch and they want and will take a mile. You want it then pay for it yourself.
David R. Amos
Reply to @James Johnstone: I concur
Junkman George
Funding this kind of nonsense has to stop.
You want to get together, have a party, go ahead, knock yourselves out, on your dime, not mine.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Junkman George: I concur
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: I concur, I concur. What do you think you are , an Appeal Court judge?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks everybody knows that Yorick would agree that I am
one Hell of Court Jester N'esy Pas?
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: I'm sure Yorick would recognize a yo yo when he ses one.
Brian
Robertson
National Acadian Day?
Not just a little presumptuous is it?
How do you think the celebrations went in BC and Nunavut?
And how would he feel if Mr Higgs ridiculed his English?
Not just a little presumptuous is it?
How do you think the celebrations went in BC and Nunavut?
And how would he feel if Mr Higgs ridiculed his English?
Dianne Bastarache
Reply to @Brian
Robertson:Brian, I don't think he was ridiculing HIggs' French; he was
ridiculing the fact that he speaks no French.
Bill Thompson
Reply to @Dianne Bastarache:
That is the ignorance that we have come to expect from the Acadians.
That is the ignorance that we have come to expect from the Acadians.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Dianne
Bastarache: Read the article again sweetie, Higgs was speaking
French.... Just more Francophone Elite ignorance on the part of Brideau
and his ilk... Reminds me of stories I heard when the UduM was being set
up and the Elite sent people to Moncton just to stir up trouble....
Disgusting.
Greg Windsor
Reply to @Brian Robertson: .... I believe he refuses to speak English
Greg Windsor
Reply to @Dianne
Bastarache: ....but he does speak French, not very well....I have also
heard French people struggle with English and they were classed as fully
bilingual
Mac Isaac
Reply to @Dianne
Bastarache: I'm sorry Dianne, but ridiculing poorly spoken French is the
same as ridiculing poorly spoken English. One is as bad as the other
and the important point in each is that each speaker is at least trying
to address the other community. Very few speakers are able to speak
accent-less English or French. Premier Higgs does speak some French;
just not very well, but considering how late in life he was when he took
on the task of learning French, you must admit he does as well as could
reasonably be expected.
Fred Dee
Reply to @Mac Isaac: real French and acadian French are not the same!!!!!
Mike Steeves
Reply to @Fred Dee:
to me the Acadians died out over 200 years ago. my family came here from
Germany in 1766 and i am Canadian, not German. the Acadian stuff is
nothing more than a giant bandwagon to jump on and complain. nothing
,more
David R. Amos
Reply to @Fred Dee: True
Rj LeBlanc
I
do not know of one single person in my family/circle of friends in the
Moncton area who would support this disgusting attitude behaviour by
Serge Brideau. As well, as an Acadian, I feel that the SANB ( I am not a
member ) should have severely criticized the artist for his comments
and taken him off the stage. I give our Premier all the credits for
attending this event and for making every effort to speak in French.
There are many Acadians all over North America who no longer speak
french and the Congress is not a linguistic event- it is a bilingual
Congress ( see website). I am not a Higgs fan but in this instance, I
applaud his efforts and I am glad he attended the event. I am hoping the
organizers of the Congress will formally apologize to our Premier for
allowing this bozo to insult Mr Higgs
James Johnstone
Reply to @Rj LeBlanc:
"Brideau said "Look at L'Acadie" as he raised his fists and flashed the
middle finger. The crowd of thousands at the concert in Dieppe
cheered." Somebody must like his attitude. Where did the money come from
for this event?
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Rj LeBlanc:
By staying silent the majority of Francophones in NB are giving power
and control to the likes of Brideau, SANB, Michel Doucet and the
Francophone Elite..... "The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is
for good people to stay silent and do nothing ".... It is past time to
stand up , speak out and be counted.. Form a Francophone Group to fight
the likes of Brideau , put actions to your words.
Mike Steeves
Reply to @Rj LeBlanc:
my family came here in 1766 from Germany, but i am not German. Why do
you have to think you are Acadian? why is being a Canadian not enough? i
am honestly asking. Unless you are years old, you are not Acadian.
You are of France decent.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Mike Steeves:
Ah but the Francophone Elite milk being " Acadian " to the hilt and stupid politicians keep caving in to their wants, wishes and demands.... This pandering to one small, vocal , self-centered minority must stop... Time to shut off the unlimited funding and preferential treatment.
Ah but the Francophone Elite milk being " Acadian " to the hilt and stupid politicians keep caving in to their wants, wishes and demands.... This pandering to one small, vocal , self-centered minority must stop... Time to shut off the unlimited funding and preferential treatment.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Rj LeBlanc: Well Put Sir
Stephen Wilkins
Someone
should tell the singer that 2 of the 3 words on his robe are English.
Also, what a cheap way to get some free press (exposure) for one's band.
Joe Gallant
Al Clark
Reply to @Stephen Wilkins: Good observation as well as point.
Al Clark
Reply to @Stephen Wilkins: You have no idea what kind of exposure he likes! ;-)
Al Clark
Reply to @Stephen Wilkins: Surprising to hear an asnb who isn't an expert on chiac. Don't know how chiac works?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Stephen
Wilkins: nope, only one! "Super" is as muxh French as English and
"Chiac" is neither. It was made up. Speak of what you know about.
Mike Steeves
Reply to @Mike Steeves: of course
David R. Amos
Reply to @Stephen Wilkins: Good point
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Clark:
Methinks your buddy the Deputy Chief of the Fat Fred City Finest has
schooled you well about Chiac N'esy Pas?
Daryl Doucette
The
ULTIMATE goal of Mr. Brideau and his friends in the SANB is to not have
to hear another word of English here in New Brunswick, where ever he
and they work and play. Good luck with that. Methinks the MAJORITY may
FINALLY be waking up to this situation?
David R. Amos
Reply to @daryl doucette: YUP
Mack Leigh
As
stated hundred of times before Official Bilingualism in the mind of the
" Elite " has nothing to do with fairness; has nothing to do with
equality;, has nothing to do with harmony or unity..period. Forced
Official Bilingualism is the vehicle that is being used by the Elite to
take over this province. This is all about Power and Control and they
will not stop until government shuts them down and shuts down all
funding... The Majority if they do not wake up will be the authors of
their own demise.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: YUP
Mario Doucet
Trudeau supports SANB and this type of insult.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mario Doucet: YUP
Anne Bérubé
If
this guy is concerned about their PM's French, he should have said
something about the 'chiac' spoken by their host for the event. It is
pitiful and I am being polite here. In fact, the whole night with the
exception of Zachary Richard, was the one I have never watched. I kept
watching to see if it would improve, to my dismay, it did not. To make
matters worse, even Trudeau attended...it says it all.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Anne Bérubé: What did you expect to see?
Mario Doucet
How much tax money went into this , oh right don't ask.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Mario Doucet: Figures that I have been able to find so far show it at well over a million and counting.
Graham McCormack
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Found where?
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Graham McCormack:
Article in Acadie Nouvelle on August 14 th for a start states that the Feds are giving a further.....further 2.1 million this year to festivals and celebrations.. Feds gave a further % 500,000.00 plus for yesterday in Dieppe along with another $ 315,000. Caraquet got $ 91,000.00 Shediac got a pile. Cap Pele got a pile. Up North got another large chunk, and on and on and on and that was just for August 15th .... Now add in all of the other celebrations, festivals they hold over the course of a year.... The figures are staggering.
Article in Acadie Nouvelle on August 14 th for a start states that the Feds are giving a further.....further 2.1 million this year to festivals and celebrations.. Feds gave a further % 500,000.00 plus for yesterday in Dieppe along with another $ 315,000. Caraquet got $ 91,000.00 Shediac got a pile. Cap Pele got a pile. Up North got another large chunk, and on and on and on and that was just for August 15th .... Now add in all of the other celebrations, festivals they hold over the course of a year.... The figures are staggering.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks liberals know how to buy elections N'esy Pas?
Mario Doucet
Now you see where the racism is really seated.
Graham McCormack
Reply to @Mario Doucet: Which race was attacked?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Graham McCormack: the stockcar race!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Graham McCormack: The human race aka SANB's peoplekind
Mario
Doucet
The crowd of thousands at the concert in Dieppe cheered. Kind of says it all.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Mario
Doucet: Sure would like to know how many were actually in attendance
since any pictures to date have yet to show the " 10's of thousands " as
was reported by the media..... Is that exaggeration supposed to make
the majority a little less upset about them spending over a million of
taxpayers money ?
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Mack Leigh: YUP
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Hmmm
Mario
Doucet
SANB supports this.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Mario
Doucet: Quite evidently since Robert Melanson ( SANB ) only said it was
not the time or the place for those words and actions. Perhaps because
they were being televised... The Francophone youth are being continually
brainwashed by the actions of those with the mindset of Brideau,
Melanson, Doucet and others.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Mario Doucet: YUP
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mario Doucet: Hmmm
Mario Doucet
There you have it, how the Acadians really feel.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Mario Doucet: YUP
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Mario Doucet: Hmmm
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mario Doucet: True
Dan Lee
Reply to @Mario Doucet:
Yea i can tell you want a group hug from all the races..............what a mar roon
Yea i can tell you want a group hug from all the races..............what a mar roon
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Mario Doucet: and you have an Acadian name.
Graeme Scott
Class act there Serge.....not!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Graeme Scott: True
Marilyn
Carr
Anyone
could ridicule Acadian & NB french speakers ...My Mudder and
fodder took dis over dare.....but we dont. He wants perfect french go to
France but thats still not Que. french so here we are...can we not meet
in the middle?
Al Clark
Reply to @Marilyn
Carr: Yes I remember with a smile the COR leader (Webb) in SJ on the
radio a few years ago bellyaching about his "langritch" rights ;-)
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Clark: Oh My My Say Hey to your buddy Chucky Leblanc for me will ya?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: "but we don't". You just did!
John
O'Brien
Once again Acadians show how xenophobic and ignorant they can be.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @John
O'Brien: And governments handing them the lion's share of everything
including all funding only reinforces their sense of entitlement and
superiority.
Anne
Bérubé
Reply to @John
O'Brien: Agree with you 100%, happy to have left the province years ago.
As a Quebecer and French, a person residing in that province is never
accepted. Good riddance.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Anne
Bérubé: as if all Quebeckers accept other Francophones or all Anglophone
New Brunswickers accept Francophones! There are some extremists
everywhere. We read some all the time here.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you are at the top of the list of crybabies on the SANB side N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: the crybabies on here all the time take the cake.
Daryl Doucette
Maybe
Mr. Brideau should move to Quebec, and then he will not have to deal
with those nasty " unilingual english" people as much.
Al Clark
Reply to @daryl doucette: .....in the position of top legislator of a province that is 1/3 french and officially bilingual....
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Clark: Methinks you would enjoy Quebec as well N'esy Pas?
Mack Leigh
Exactly
what did this " Celebration " cost the taxpayers , both federally and
provincially ? My figures that I have been able to source thus far place
it well over a million.... How many other minorities receive funding
anywhere near to this outrageous amount ?
Emilien Forest
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Homosexual parades
Marilyn Carr
Reply to @Emilien Forest: What happened to Loyalist days in Saint John? NO FUNDING.
Emilien Forest
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: No the money was to pay off their debt.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Emilien
Forest: As opposed to the Francophone Elite paying off their debt ??
No wait the Elite have unlimited use of taxpayers money and the Majority
keep paying for all of the demands, wants and wishes of the Elite.
Anne Bérubé
Reply to @Emilien Forest: I heard Trudeau gave them money for this mess of an evening.
Brad Lane
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Costs a lot more these days to lubricate that darn squeaky wheel.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Brad Lane: there sure are wheels always sqeaking galore on here!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you are the squeakiest one N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: good luck in the next élect election. You may get 60 votes if you are lucky.
Mack Leigh
And
actions such as those of singer Serge Brideau is exactly why there
should be only one official language in NB and that should be the
language of the Majority. The Majority which is comprised of all
languages and cultures.. Actions such as those of Serge Brideau along
with those of Robert Melanson ( SANB ) , Michel Doucet are exactly why
this forced frenchification, forced social engineering and pandering to
one minority needs to cease and desist . Official Bilingualism has
created a group of francophone elite who embrace bigotry and
segregation. It incites division and a culture of false superiority
while marginalizing the majority... The majority who are now relegated
to second class citizens...
Marilyn
Carr
Reply to @Mack Leigh: right on
Colin Seeley
Reply to @Mack Leigh:
So what’s to be done about the only “ Officially Bilingual Province “ in Canada.
It’s time we were not. The constitution needs to be changed.
Who will stand up.
So what’s to be done about the only “ Officially Bilingual Province “ in Canada.
It’s time we were not. The constitution needs to be changed.
Who will stand up.
Joseph Vachier
Reply to @Mack Leigh: well said
Al Clark
Reply to @Mack Leigh: yeah it's created a group alright..... COR
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Clark:
Methinks your SANB supporting buddy from Dieppe who is now the Deputy
Chief of the Fat Fred City Finest does not appreciate the fact that you
are an old COR Party dude N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Joseph Vachier: quite a fitting name!
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