We are a country made up of a great immigrant legacy.
This is a good campaign tool. If I lived in Canada and were running for some office in Quebec you better believe I'll have a webpage in French.
I don't know why its an issue with some people. We don't have a national language. We shouldn't have a national language. Our country has a growing hispanic population. It is only natural to have Spanish language communications.
We need more people in the electorate, not less.
I understand your point of view, but from an integration point of view, i'm not sure it helps.
I originate from the far north of France (Lille), where coal industry made the wealth of the region for years in the 50/60s (and then the decline any region knows when the mines close).
We had many immigrants from Poland who came to do some very hard work as miners.
When i lived at my parents, our neighbour originated from Poland, she was born in France, and sometimes her mum came to visit her, and we were there for a cup of coffee. Her mum had been in France for 38 years and didn't speak french properly (our neighbour had to translate, cause the mum was speaking kinda " Me want coffee ").
And that's the same today. My wife is a nurse, she works in a reanimation service.
We had much immigration from north Africa, and, mostly with religion purposes, some women never leave their homes (and they watch cable tv from their originate country), it's not rare that they don't speak french, even if they're 70 years old and have been there for 40 years.
Hopefully for them, most of the emergency doctors are from northern Africa (yes, we're lacking french doctors), and a few months ago, and it occured several times, my wife entered the doctors office, while they were speaking in french, they suddenly started speaking in arab once she arrived. Many were shocked by such manners. THAT IS COMMUNAUTARISM !
I'm okay for welcoming anybody here, who needs it, who comes to be safe, and/or to work, to share with us, to work with us, to exchange with us. That's the american concept of the melting pot. If you let people come, but that they come to live in YOUR country, without learning the language, and let them do, SOME (not all) won't learn it, because they'll work among their community, among those who " have the same origins ". That's not the purpose of the melting pot. The purpose is that we are alltogether, and the first way to exchange and advance together, is the language.
It's not a generality, but it's an existing and possible reality.
Even here, when some british come to buy a village, and you go there, everything in shops is written in english, even the menu of the restaurant, and people don't speak a word in french, i say NO ! It's not normal ! It IS communautarism ! (Even if they bought the village, pay taxes, etc ... if you live full time here, you must learn the language, final point.).
