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Era Oat Wed Nave IS 5 A New Answer To Bill Smiley Some Of Us Remember will the Flower Children do on Remembrance Day Will they refuse to buy a poppy because they associate it with past wars Or will they buy every poppy they can get their hands on and try to infuse a brew of opium so that they can turn on All I know is that theyll have a tough time getting any poppy- juice out of those paper poppies the Legion sells My daughter and I have a run ning battle about the Flower Child- re and hippies in general She a slogan Love is all need which I find scrawled on things all over the house My contention is that these kit dont love anybody but that they heartily hate whodoesnt subscribe to their baked philosophy if you grace it with such a term most of them dont know about life to wipe their Day does not average kid today as important a record And itV Editor no noticed an article in the night Nov Era and the Nov tant Era under Sugar and Spice by Mr Smiley Mr Smiley like everyone else in society that is prejudiced against what so- hung calls hippies He said and they would refuse to buy a th poppy because it was in honor of past wars Well he was right I would never buy a poppy because it is in honor of past wars I give my regards to his daughter who says Love is all you need You society say the same thing just kill in war with this love You can spout at the mouth Love of but you seem to be blind to the fact that in war you murder kill persons you never ever met Kill you dont ever get the impact of that word do you The Era does not publish letters to the editor that are not signed But we are making an exception in this case as the writer of this letter is very real The letter arrived last Wednesday by way of a bearded dirtydressed young man a Hippy It was placed inside the front door accompanied by a wooden sculpture which resembles an armless and legless male torso In his letter the Hippy takes Sugar and Spice columnist Bill Smiley to task for his opinions regarding Hippies and Remem brance Day Mr Smiley wrote in column last week that Hippies dont love anyone but them selves and heartily hate anyone who doesnt sub- scribe to their philosophy Mr Smiley also asks if the Hippies would fight for their country and con cludes that they wouldnt This Newmarket Hippy answers Mr Smiley and ends his letter by writing Try loving someone it really works The Era doesnt agree with the Hippys philoso phy on Remembrance Day or with his pacifism But he is entitled to his point of view and after all isnt his urging to love your fellow man just the same as the urging Jesus Christ made years ago The Editor I would never kill and Im not saying this because Im chicken I would be killed by someone before I killed some one else in war Remembrance Day is con gratulating people for the lives they took I do not love myself anymore than love you I would never hurt you and if I could I would help you I hate no one just be cause he may not think like me but I try to help him feel the happiness that I feel And I know more about life than any young recruit in the army I have starved went days without sleep and have had many experiences with all types of people even you con fused warped heads of so ciety Mr Smiley is really hung up in the kill in war bit Just think if be was a pacifist and Mr Jones was a pacifist and Mr Louis was a pacifist we would have no wars Does the man with no legs think that war is all that necessary Does the child burned with napalm think that war is all that necessary If Mr Smiley were in a strange city without a cent very hungry with no place to sleep what would he do How many people in society would feed you and give you a place to sleep for not one cent I was in that position and a fellow flower child fed me and gave me a place to sleep for two nights u mean an in the do I It is better to give than to receive May you all exper ience love and give it to your fellow man Try loving some one it really works love you Thank you both re alive and killed application ist so that she Remembrance later I havent given in a whole shes just got to get before the snow flies aid were going to have fact that Remembrance Another Point Of View res a vicarious thrill in the that the police might a few heads even draw Not yours of course I wonder how many of those protesters would have the guts to clamber out of a muddy stinking trench and hurl themselves into- barbed wire and machineguns looking for their vitals I wonder how many of the people who carry placards with their little fat jowls bouncing on their white collars could fly through a thou sand acres of redhot flak because somebody had to do it I Wonder how many of the tlonaignera with their clean socks and their underarm deodorant could take a week of puking and getting smashed about in a cor vette Maybe I sound a little bitter Maybe I am Maybe they could and would some of them But until they try it they shouldnt spit on others War Is rotten War is stupid But to those who died And to those who live with rotten lungs and arthritis and all the rest of it know that there are still some of us who think about you on Remembrance Day Canada Is Not A Bicultural But Multicultural ft For several years now Can adians living outside the Pro vince of Quebec have been fed a steady diet of propa ganda warning and even threatening us with all kinds of national calamities if we did not accept the proposition that Canada should become a bilingual and bicultural country So successful has this propaganda been in many quarters that some of the press and even some of our educationists have swallowed the bait hook line and sinker and have become almost hysterical In their zeal to foist the French language upon the entire population of this country in spite of the fact that the 1961 census figures indicated that only per cent of the people of Canada were bilingual in the sense of knowing both English and French Most of the discussion about the subject of and has been carried on by people of either French or English origin and I have noticed that in most of the arguments that have been advanced pro and con very little if any consideration has been given to the constitu tional rights or the feelings of nearly six million Can adian citizens whose mother tongue was neither English nor French It is refreshing and most Interesting therefore to read the observations on this whole subject by a prominent Can adian of Icelandic origin who is a retired President of the Exchequer Court and a former Federal Cabinet Min ister the Honorable J Speaking before the Mens Canadian Club of Vic toria on February 17 of this year on timely subject The Shape of Canada In its Second Century Mr dealt with the topics of bl- lingualism and bkulturallsm very forcibly and logically in the following terms Canada Is bo example that she ought to be we mast prove that It is pos sible to build an orderly society based on regard for the Individual which will not only ensure his freedom and safeguard him from arbitrary action on the part of State but will also establish the social economic cultural and educational conditions that will enable him to enjoy freedom to which he Is entitled In a manner befitting tho dignity of man This is kind of society that Can ada should build In her second century In Order If are to fulfil this purpose we must set our house In order and adjust our selves to the present con ditions of our society There are two principal tasks to which wo must devoto our selves We must bring our i Constitution Into line with reality so that Canada may bo better equipped that now Is for the fulfilment of her purpose and must also clarify our concept of Canadian nationhood The latter task presents difficult problems If Canada is to be an example worth following we must solve them We must show that our society is built on the found ation of regard for the indi vidual and that all our people arc dealt with on the basis of equality with one another regardless of their differences of racial origin or religious belief We must therefore clear away certain misconceptions that disturb a great many Canadians In recent years there has been an increasing reference to the founding races of Canada the French and the English as if they alone form the Canadian nation These persons do not seem to realize that the Can ada of today is a very dif ferent country from that which the founding races formed Its composition and character have changed Even since the seventies just a few years after Con federation streams of people flowed Into our country from all parts of the world Most of them came from Europe and landed In Quebec which I have frequently called the Port of Hope That hope has been richly realized if not by the newcomers then certainly by their sons and daughters These immigrants were the homesteaders that broke up the land in the prairies made the wilderness blossom and become one of the granaries of the world With their physi cal strength they provided the hard labour that was neces sary they did all the menial tasks they dug the sewers in the cities and built the rail way dumps that made our transportation systems pos sible In the two world wars In which Canada was en gaged their sons and daugh ters played their full part for the country which their fathers and mothers had adopted for them They have won their place both in peace and In war In the Canadian society which they have helped to build Composition Ixjt us look at the present composition of the Canadian nation Fortyfour per cent of its people are of British origin English Scottish Irish or Welsh per cent of French origin and per cent of origins that arc neither nor French And it will not be very long as im migration from European countries increases before that per cent becomes higher than the percentage of persons of French origin Let us therefore stop talking about tho founding races the French and the British as If they form the Canadian nation us look at the present and towards the future Instead of back to the past Wo are not living any longer In spirit of This Is While we owe a debt of gratitude to the found ing races surely wo should bo more concerned with the people of many origins who have made the Canada of to- day and will bo responsible for the Canada of tomorrow There is a further di- misconception that should be brushed away Those who keep referring to the founding races the French and the British also put forward the pretension that the people of Canada are either French Canadians or English Canadians as if every person who is not a French Canadian is an En Canadian There are more than five million Can adians whose origins are neither French nor English They are not English Can adians I am one of them I am not an English Can adian Here let me make it clear that do not appear be fore you as a spokesman for the Canadians of foreign origins They do not need a spokesman I speak as a Can adian In the Canada of today all Canadians regardless of differences in ethnic origin stand on the basis of equality with one another Those who continue to speak of citi zens of Canada as either French Canadians or English Canadians arc ignorant of the composition and character of the Canadian nation and do a disservice to Canada One Nation It follows that the concept of a dual Canadian nation hood with the implication that Canada Is a twonation country one nation being French Canadian and the other English Canadian must be rejected For my part I reject it as strongly as words permit and I am sure that In so doing I voice the senti ments of an overwhelming majority of Canadians I sec only one Canadian nation are all members of it whet her our ethnic origins arc French or English or neither French nor English As citi zens of Canada we have equal rights with one another and we owe equal duties to our common country The contention that there Is an equal partnership be tween the French Canadians and the English Canadians meaning thereby all Canadi ans that are not French Can adians must also be dis missed There Is no historical basis for the contention and it Is contrary to reality Equal ity of partnership in an enter prise Implies equality of con tribution to It That equality of contribution docs not exist There is further defect In the French Canadian claim to equal partnership with rest of Canada It falls to toko Into account the contri bution to the partnership that has been made by the Can adians whoso origins are neither French nor English more than five million of them The real partnership in the Canadian enterprise Is that which cxUU between the individuals who have made it what It Is Wc arc all partners In that enterprise There is another subject to which I must refer Hero I enter upon controversial French Canada claims it is an inequnl partner in Confederation Some people in Quebec want to secede from Canada The Progressive Conservative Partys leadership convention was rocked by the twonation policy The question of whether French Canadians are being treated as equals to their English Canadian counterparts has been answered by hundreds of experts Each seem to have a different answer It has sparked dozens of TV panel shows millions of words have been written in newspapers and magazines Hut very little discussion has taken place about the other partners in Confederation those Canadians who are not of English or French descent I Because little has been said and written The Era takes this opportunity of presenting another point of view The following letter is written by an Aurora resi dent J Iinatcdo His letter is mainly a copy of speech given by the retired president of Canadas Exchequer Court the Hon J to the Canndinn Club of Victoria BC B ground charged with explo sive emotionalism It has been contended that Canada is a bilingual country In which French and English arc Its official languages throughout the country and that our Con stitution guarantees their equal status throughout the country contention Is made so frequently and with such intensity of feeling that wo arc In grave danger of being brainwashed Into the belief that it Is true The con tention Is not true Up to the present those who arc opposed to the pro motion of as a matter of national policy have hesitated to express in public tho opposition that they really feci That feeling is wide spread and deeply rooted Tho hesitation should cease The time has come for speaking up against the drive force upon the people of Canada that is being pressed with such Intensity That Is my reason for speak ing as I do Fare The face facts It is not correct as a matter of law to assert that French and English are official languages of Canada If this moons that they ore official throughout Canada ore not Section 133 of British North America Act defines in specific terms the actual sta tus of two languages it provides as follows r Mai Either English or the French language may be used by any Per son In Debates of tho Houses of Parliament of Canada and of Houses of legislature of Que bec and those lan guages shall bo used In the respective Records and Journals of those Mouses and cither of those languages may be used by any Person or In any Pleading or Process in or issuing from any Court of Canada estab lished under this Act and In and from all or any of the Courts of Quebec Tho Acts of the Parlia ment of Canada and of the Legislature of Quebec shall be printed and pub lished in both those lan guages There Is nothing in this section of tho British North America Act or in any other section of It or in any law that guarantees throughout Canada or makes French an official language throughout Canada The fact as a matter of low is that the French language has no special status in Canada opart from that which is specified in section of tho British North America Act And there is no Justifi cation for assuming that the Fathers of Confederation In tended any special status for tho French language beyond that specified in the section It follows that the extension In tho use of French that has place on such sublets as Canadian coins postage stamps and bank notes and on Canadian Government station ery and forms 1st strictly speaking the result of a com cession to the demands of French Canadians and Is not matter of constitutional right Not Bilingual Moreover there Is no foundation for pretension that Canada is a bilingual country On contrary the hard fact Is that it is not a bilingual country Nor is It likely that It ever will be In deed It la permissible to go so far as to predict that it never will bo The statistical facts support this vlow and warrant such a prediction According to the census of only per cent of the people of Canada were bilin gual in the sense of knowing both French and English- Most of these persona were French Canadians Tats per centage is less than it was in 1931 and the likelihood is that will become increasingly less The percentages of the persons who are bilingual In the several provinces of Caiv ada vary from a high of 254 per cent in Quebec to a low of per cent In Newfound land The high percentage in Quebec Is due to Montreal Outside of Montreal and a it other areas almost the whole of Is only Frenchspeaking There is no likelihood that Quebec apart from Montreal and the other areas referred to will ever become bilin gual And in the provinces of Canada west of Quebec statistics are significant In Ontario the percentage of bi lingual persons according to the census was per cent largely due to the over flow from Quebec The per centages In the Western pro vinces ranged from per cent In Manitoba per cent in Saskatchewan per cent in Alberta to 35 per cent in British Columbia In the At lantic provinces the percent ages ranged from in New Brunswick per cent in Prince Edward Island per cent in Nova Scotia to per cent in Newfoundland How can It bo said in the face of these facts that Canada Is bilingual country It Is not In speaking as I do I am not sympathetic to the aspir ations of the French Canadi ans On contrary my wholo life has shown friend ship for them and rejoice with them In their achieve ments I worked intensively for many years in an attempt to acquire a knowledge of French and there was a time when I came close to being bilingual When I was a Mem ber of Parliament I knew every French Canadian In House of Commons I campaigned in French In the French speaking parts of my native Province of Manitoba When I was President of Exchequer Court of Can ada I never allowed transla tion from English to French or from French to English In our federal French and English stand on tho footing of absolute equality maintained that right I hoard many cases in which evidence and argu ments of counsel were nil In French and I wrote judgments In French Danger 1 welcome I believe all Canadians do advance ment in Canada of the know- of French and abil ity to speak It but have right to the opin ion as I do that bilingualism as a matter of national policy Is not In the best Interests of Indeed there Is grave danger that it will be a divisive force it has proved to bo in other countries of which Belgium is a notable example The promotion of will not make for national unity in Canada On the contrary it will ac centuate and the difference between French Canadians other Canadi ans to which shall later refer Moreover the attempts that have been made to force blUngunltsm on the people of Canada must be resisted Re cently proponents of lingualism succeeded In making a con- ditton of employment in the Civil Service of Canada and a condition for promotion in it in Ottawa and other similar This is wrong It Is contrary the basic policy of our country that anyone should be compelled directly or Indirectly to learn French a condition of employment or promotion Swept Aside There Is another miscon ception that must be cleared away The pretension that Canada is a nation one culture being French and other English should be swept aside How could our Canndinns of Scottish Irish German Ukrainian Polish Italian Danish Norwegian Swedish Icelandic or other origins accept the pretension that their respective cultures because they arc not French must be English pre tension Is ridiculous I always thought that culture was universal know no racial boundaries but I appre ciate that when the French Canadians speak of their cul ture they not thinking of culture In sense of tho term but rather way of life that is theirs This wo respect and honor I doubt whether Canadians of the various origins that I mentioned think of their re spective cultures in similar way That being so It Is strictly sneaking Inappropri ate to describe Canada as a multicultural counlry Hut If the term must be used then Canada Is a multicultural country It is certainly not one The contention that Canada Is a country one culture being French and oilier English Is idler nonsense should bo dismissed In view of the opinions so ably expressed by Mr Isnt Is about Unto Canadians of English Preach origin stopped quibb ling about two founding races hi- and this our main centennial project to Join five million Canadians of other origins In making this a milled Canada A Mori More J HASTED St Aurora g I lit A