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Margaret E. Atwood

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Stéphanie Chouinard and Andrew Parkin: The CPC needs to get back to bilingualism

Poilievre speaks excellent French. That won't be enough.

12:18 AM · Jan 18, 2023

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Perhaps we should be focusing more on promoting and protecting indigenous languages. We need to expand the idea of bilingualism in canada to allow for one of the languages to not be a language introduced by European colonisers.

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French is a dead language. You may as well study Esperanto.