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« Reply #30 on: December 21, 2023, 06:54:15 pm »
I never said that. I said I was at the party where the mob was formed. And you can independently verify the 1989 Free Press article.

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« Reply #31 on: December 21, 2023, 07:06:46 pm »
Did you go through the Canadian school system from kindergarten through grade 12?  After Canada became officially bilingual in 1969?  I think you said you were an immigrant.

Grade 6 to 12... back when we used to sing God Save the Queen as well.

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« Reply #32 on: December 21, 2023, 07:08:45 pm »
Lived in Montreal for a time, studied French many years and can get by reasonably well (although not fluently), and I haven't a clue what the French lyrics to O Canada are.

Wait. I think one of the lines starts with "Son histoire....". That's all I got

O Canada
La terre de nos aieux

That's all I know...

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« Reply #33 on: December 21, 2023, 07:15:13 pm »
Did you go through the Canadian school system from kindergarten through grade 12?  After Canada became officially bilingual in 1969?  I think you said you were an immigrant.

I did and I didn't learn the French version of the anthem.
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« Reply #34 on: December 21, 2023, 07:15:54 pm »
Jesus Christ. Can you imagine our Parliament filled with Black Dog types? Jews would be forced to wear star of David armbands, and Sharia Law would be imposed on all Canadians, within days of his ascent to PM.

It's time to take your meds, schizo.
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« Reply #35 on: December 22, 2023, 05:41:18 am »
Jesus Christ. Can you imagine our Parliament filled with Black Dog types? Jews would be forced to wear star of David armbands, and Sharia Law would be imposed on all Canadians, within days of his ascent to PM.

Will you please post the lyrics to the hyperbole national anthem?


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« Reply #36 on: December 22, 2023, 05:46:21 am »
Will you please post the lyrics to the hyperbole national anthem?

O Canada!
Our frozen native land!
Scarf, hat and glove on all thy sons demand.
With shivering hearts we see thee rise,
Thy True frigidity!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on ice for thee.
God keep our land at zero degrees!
O Canada, we stand on ice for thee.
O Canada, we stand on ice for thee
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« Reply #37 on: December 26, 2023, 04:27:36 pm »
Grade 6 to 12... back when we used to sing God Save the Queen as well.

They definitely don't sing that in Quebec schools I'm sure!

In BC schools, what grades do they teach French as a required subject, if at all?
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« Reply #38 on: December 26, 2023, 04:41:20 pm »
I did and I didn't learn the French version of the anthem.

You must be from BC as well right?

Well it's still an official language, so...
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« Reply #39 on: December 26, 2023, 04:47:15 pm »
You must be from BC as well right?

Well it's still an official language, so...
I remember learning the anthem in French as well.

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« Reply #40 on: December 26, 2023, 05:25:48 pm »
I haven't a clue what the French lyrics to O Canada are.
I doubt if I could come with the lyrics in any language to save my life in a pinch.

I'd be like Gene Hackman trying to sing We are Family in the Birdcage.
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« Reply #41 on: December 26, 2023, 05:34:40 pm »
I doubt if I could come with the lyrics in any language to save my life in a pinch.

I'd be like Gene Hackman trying to sing We are Family in the Birdcage.

You can't sing the anthem in English?  That may be more of a memory problem or something LOL.
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« Reply #42 on: December 26, 2023, 07:05:12 pm »
They definitely don't sing that in Quebec schools I'm sure!

In BC schools, what grades do they teach French as a required subject, if at all?

I can’t remember in the 80’s but present day it starts in grade 5.

We sing the anthem in my kids’ school during assemblies (updated version) and in the last few years we’ve started thanking the Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations as well. Quebec…. nothing.

Personally I think we should, but right or wrong, most Canadians don’t know the anthem in French as you’d assumed.


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« Reply #43 on: December 27, 2023, 12:09:01 am »
I can’t remember in the 80’s but present day it starts in grade 5.

We sing the anthem in my kids’ school during assemblies (updated version) and in the last few years we’ve started thanking the Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations as well. Quebec…. nothing.

Interesting.  Is French compulsory between certain grades?  Like i.e. between grades 5 and 9?

What do you mean by "thanking" the first nations, like land acknowledgments?

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Personally I think we should, but right or wrong, most Canadians don’t know the anthem in French as you’d assumed.

Well, that people in BC don't learn the French anthem doesn't mean most Canadians don't.
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« Reply #44 on: December 27, 2023, 12:29:52 am »
Interesting.  Is French compulsory between certain grades?  Like i.e. between grades 5 and 9?

What do you mean by "thanking" the first nations, like land acknowledgments?

Well, that people in BC don't learn the French anthem doesn't mean most Canadians don't.

In Manitoba, we took french classes beginning in Grade 1, and french is compulsory until High School. Although Manitoba has a larger french population that any other Western Canadian province.