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    Bilingualism Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club, at Quebec, Tuesday, March 28th, 1916
    Bilingualism Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club, at Quebec, Tuesday, March 28th, 1916
    Bilingualism Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club, at Quebec, Tuesday, March 28th, 1916
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    Bilingualism Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club, at Quebec, Tuesday, March 28th, 1916

    By N. A. (Napoléon-Antoine) Belcourt

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Bilingualism Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club, at Quebec, Tuesday, March 28th, 1916 - N. A. (Napoléon-Antoine) Belcourt

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      Title: Bilingualism

      Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club, at

      Quebec, Tuesday, March 28th, 1916

      Author: N. A. Belcourt

      Release Date: April 11, 2008 [EBook #25040]

      Language: English

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      ADDRESS

      DELIVERED BEFORE THE

      QUEBEC CANADIAN CLUB

      AT QUEBEC

      TUESDAY, MARCH 28th, 1916

      BY

      The Honorable N. A. BELCOURT, K.C., P.C.

      BILINGUALISM

      QUEBEC

      THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.

      1916

      ADDRESS DELIVERED

      BEFORE THE

      QUEBEC CANADIAN CLUB

      AT

      QUEBEC

      TUESDAY, MARCH 28th, 1916

      BY

      The Honorable N. A. BELCOURT, K.C., P.C.

      Gentlemen of the Canadian Club:—Your president has asked me to address you this afternoon in the English language. It is with great pleasure that I received this invitation and that I avail myself of the privilege of speaking to you in that language with regard to the very troublesome, somewhat distorted, and certainly much misrepresented school question in your sister province. First of all, I wish to assure you that I shall not make a speech. I desire, in as simple and lucid English as I can command, to endeavor to explain to you the difficulties of that school question, addressing myself preferably to your intelligence, rather than to your hearts.

      I want, if I can, to enlighten you as much as possible with regard to this school trouble, a trouble which unfortunately is not a new one for us in Ontario, which we have had many times in the past, and which I am none too sure we shall not have again in the future. This time, as you know, it has broken out over the notorious regulation No. 17. That has been the center of the storm, and until the question it has raised is solved it must, I am afraid, continue to be a storm center. I want to tell you what is the real meaning, what is the object and what will be the effect of this regulation. I am going to give you concrete evidence of everything that I propose to tell you.

      Let me tell you also that I will do so with the greatest care and moderation, and, whilst I feel strongly, as you may imagine, upon this question, I am going to suppress my own feelings and make a calm and dispassionate analysis of the question. I will leave it to your intelligence and to your own sympathy to decide what course of action each one of you individually may feel called upon to follow.

      Regulation No. 17 has been designed, enacted and enforced with no other object than the gradual proscription of the French language in the primary schools of the Province of Ontario. I say there is no question about that, and if anyone of you will take the trouble to follow me closely, and afterwards, if any doubts remain about the matter, and you will take up the

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