David Raymond Amos@DavidRayAmos Replying to @DavidRayAmos @alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks a lot of folks may enjoy an ongoing much edited spit and chew within CBC after Trudeau and Scheer came to NB to prance in an Acadian Day Parade N'esy Pas?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at the official National Acadian Day ceremony and took part in the Grand Tintamarre in Dieppe. (Nicolas Steinbach/Radio Canada)
Andrew Scheer calls on Liberal MPs to further probe SNC-Lavalin affair
News 06:34 PM by Joan Bryden The Canadian Press
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau points to Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer while walking with the crowd during the Tintamarre in celebration of the National Acadian Day and World Acadian Congress in Dieppe, N.B., on Aug. 15, 2019. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is asking Liberal MPs on the House of Commons ethics committee to vote to continue the investigation into the SNC-Lavalin affair, after a scathing report found that the prime minister broke ethics law. Marc Grandmaison,The Canadian Press
Singer's attack on premier's French wasn't appropriate, says Acadian Society president
Singer for Acadian folk-rock band criticized Blaine Higgs's fluency during National Acadian Day show
Shane Magee· CBC News· Posted: Aug 16, 2019 4:47 PM AT
Hôtesses d'Hilaire lead singer Serge Brideau amended song lyrics during a National Acadian Day performance in Dieppe to call out Premier Blaine Higgs for being unilingual. (Radio-Canada) The president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick says a nationally televised concert wasn't the appropriate place to call out the province's premier for being unilingual.
The singer for Acadian folk-rock band Hôtesses d'Hilaire incorporated the criticism of Premier Blaine Higgs into a National Acadian Day performance Thursday evening.
Serge Brideau amended the lyrics of the group's song Regarde-moi to say "Look at me with the unilingual premier and his boss Irving."
Brideau said "Look at L'Acadie" as he raised his fists and flashed the middle finger. The crowd of thousands at the concert in Dieppe cheered.
Robert Melanson, president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, didn't condemn the statement but said the event wasn't the right place to make it.
"I think Aug. 15 is a day to put aside our differences and to reunite everybody together and to celebrate," Melanson said. "And to celebrate, that means celebrating with everyone, anglophones included."
Robert Melanson, president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, says the Acadian Day celebration wasn't the place to criticize the premier's language skills. (Jean-Philippe Hughes/Radio-Canada)
Brideau disagreed, telling Radio-Canada on Thursday that the show was the ideal venue.
The concert broadcast on Radio-Canada coincided with the World Acadian Congress, which has drawn thousands to the greater Moncton area.
Higgs was at the concert but said he didn't hear the statement.
"It's a bit disappointing," he said, pivoting to say he's focused on issues such as the economy. He said he meets people around the province, whatever language they speak, who want to see the province succeed.
"I can run into individual pockets of, let's say, emotion, but I've been around long enough that … I still believe together we can fix this."
Higgs, who has been trying to learn French, says he was disappointed in the comments. (Jean-Philippe Hughes/Radio-Canada)
The premier took part in the celebrations earlier in the day, speaking in French.
Melanson, who heard that speech, said Higgs's French has improved during his time in office.
The two met Thursday to discuss various issues affecting New Brunswick francophones, including immigration.
Higgs's fluency became an issue during the 2018 election.
He started French lessons after he won the Progressive Conservative leadership and has delivered prepared speeches in French. But he doesn't do full interviews in French.
On Thursday, Higgs said he still has difficulty conversing in French but can read documents and deliver prepared speeches.
He said he's made progress on learning French, though would likely have to spend weeks or months fully immersed to become bilingual.
"In the meantime, my focus is that I want people to realize that regardless of my shortcomings in the language field, they will recognize that my dedication, and my interest, spreads all across this province," Higgs said.
364 Comments I quit commenting after a lot went "Poof" Commenting is now closed for this story.
Claude DeRoche Shame on him for not applauding the COR Party Boy !
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: It seems that some people love to keep N.B divided.
Claude DeRoche
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Agree! Higgs a failed leadership contender for the COR Party, the membership at the time felt he was to radical.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Sometime it's hard to talk to some people that have a one dimensional mind And I am not talking about Higgs.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you are gonna continue to beat on the SANB drum all day no matter how many of your comments go "Poof" N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos Reply to @David R. Amos: HMMMM
Marc Martin Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: I am glad you have noticed your wrong doing.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: Hey where you been. I see your still have your dividing way of thinking. And what wrong have I done?
Welby Trutthough We have bigger problems than language that we need to deal with. I posted this comment on an article about space and it was disabled by our supposedly impartial taxpayer funded national broadcaster : "I cannot understand how people mock Christianity and Christians. It's clear that there is an explanation for existence and the universe. The fact that there is something about the concept of space and time that the human mind cannot comprehend tells us that Christian teaching is not ludicrous, as the media and government would have us believe. New Brunswick is still 85% Christian, with 50% attending regularly and we couldn't have a stronger society. The truth is in the Bible, it's God's word ."
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: getting a little off the subject here aren't we. That's an other subject that many People have a different opinions of.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: le Crisse d'Austin would agree with you. As Mahatma Gandhi said: — 'I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.'
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: And the reason I'm posting that here is because it gets disabled on the article I originally posted it on and I think it highlights that the people of this province and country have much bigger issues than language to worry about. It's clear there is an anti Christian, pro drugs, movement in this country that wants to silence anyone who disagrees with it.
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Are you saying I'm not Christ like? I've never heard of le Crisse d'Austin, could you please explain the meaning. I have heard the Mahatma Gandhi quote before. I do find true Christians are very Christ like.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks the lawyer Mahatma Gandhi would get a laugh out watching your SANB buddy Claude DeRoche turn into a unholy ghost before our very eyes N'esy Pas?
Claude DeRoche
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: There are almost 5,000 gods being worshipped by humanity. But don’t worry, only yours is right!
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: There are hundreds of varieties of healthy apples, doesn't mean one of them isn't the healthiest. I worship the Christian God as the one true God because Christianity is what makes sense to me, it's what is logical, it's what I belief. That's not to say there aren't endless possibilities, perhaps God revealed himself differently according to culture. There are areas of similar message between all the world's religions. I believe the Christian God is the one true God and therefor is the God I worship.
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: I should also add, that the point isn't that I have to prove that I'm right, the point is that I'm free to believe what I want and I should be free to post a completely valid point of view on a science article, on the taxpayer funded, impartial, national broadcaster.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Yup, Now you see this article is getting lost here.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Yes I agree but not on an article that has no similar points to what your have brought up.
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: That's the point of my comment. This article needs to get lost, the language divide needs to get lost. We've got bigger problems. For one thing a dangerous psychotropic drug that causes psychosis is being freely sold and promoted by the government. Our future generations need people to stand up for what is right.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: "God revealed "himself"? Are you sure she's not "herself"?
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Let's not get into that :)
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: We'll have to disagree.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks Mother Nature is laughing at both of you N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: "le Crisse d'Austin", the Christian pastor leading the People's Alliance party that persecutes Francophones in New Nouveau-Brunswick.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you and Mr Higgs no doubt know what church that my political foe the conservative lawyer Rob Moore is a director of N'esy Pas"?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you are also very well aware as to why i sued Cardinal Bernard Francis Law in 2002 N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: Bingo.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Persecutes. A lot of exaggerating here are we.
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Thank you for explaining
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: they should have closed this shady organisation and seized thier assets a long time ago.
Marc Martin Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Isn't the PANB leader a Christian ? So does that make all Christians anti-French ?
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Who have they persecuted ? Oh , maybe the MINOR scuffle 250 years ago that the SANB whiners keep bringing up. They were welcomed back to a country run by a different government who wanted citizens expressing allegiance to it , NOT their enemy ! Although allowed back in swearing they would , they didn't then , and don't now. +
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: You're right. SANB should have been completely banned before the Liberal sellout solely for votes .
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marc Martin: I guess that makes all SANB 'ers anti Christian .
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: I have no affiliations with the SANB. Not only am I anti-Christian, I am anti-religious. I criticize them all!
Lou Bell
Singing to a few thousand SANB one issue Liberals
Marc Martin Reply to @Lou Bell: But irritated a few CoR / PANB followers in the process !!!! Joy !!!
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marc Martin: You and your SANB cohorts have shown their true colours . Anti Anglophone all the way. Admit it . That's their SANB / Liberal platform .
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: correction; we are anti-COR PANB!
BruceJack Speculator
was this brideau guy's musical performance any good, or was his action the only way he could get noticed?
David R. Amos
Reply to @BruceJack Speculator: Good question
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: he's got a style similar to yours with the beard and all.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: You mean that was not Davis on that stage ???
Lou Bell
Reply to @BruceJack Speculator: The SANB Anti-Chr--t .
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: you've been reading too many old books. They are only old myths.
Claude DeRoche
Content disabled The Irving Boy needs to save his travel expenses, he needs millions to fight a federal election in Alberta!
It already started with the gas tank campaign stickers!
He never quit his day job at Irving!
Lou Bell
Content disabled Reply to @Claude DeRoche: He serves all the people in the province, unlike the past SANB Liberals who served a minority ! Nice to see the dog wagging the tail again instead of the tail wagging the dog !
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you are gonna beat on the drum all day N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Claude DeRoche: HMMM
Claude DeRoche
Content disabled Who does he serve when he campaigns in Alberta for a federal election?
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks I should ask that question within Twitter N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
Content disabled Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Tell us about the McKenna trips with his SANB caucus. The ones he claimed were promoting trade. You know , the ones where trade WAS DECREASING EVERY YEAR as they were going on . Until caught , of course !
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks you must have read my letters to McKenna in 2004 by now N'esy Pas?
Claude DeRoche
Content disabled Reply to @Lou Bell: Did McKenna fight a federal election on our dime?
Claude DeRoche
Content disabled Freedom of speech ends when you criticize our COR Party / Irving Boy Premier.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks Freedom of Speech ends when it turns into hate speech, slander and libel N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Content disabled Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Me thinks that some people here are smoking to much of the legal stuff.
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Hmmm Methinks that was a rather telling thing to block N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: I don't smoke dope and rarely have a drink.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Content disabled Reply to @David R. Amos: Wasn't talking about you David. Me thinks saying was out of respect.
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Cool
Marguerite Deschamps
Content disabled Reply to @David R. Amos: I must commend you for it. Neither do I.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Too bad you can't read all my comments
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Claude DeRoche: HMMMM
Jason Bright
I guess not a single person in charge of recruiting musical acts bothered to look into the band's history? It's just a little Rock'n'Roll showmanship, you know?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jason Bright: C'est vrai
Claude DeRoche
Content disabled Higgs a failed candidate at the COR Party leadership, the membership felt he was to radical the Ïrving Boy is now our Premier!
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you should try telling us something we don't already know N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Content disabled Reply to @David R. Amos: Welcome to the circus again Big Brother seems to be watching again , Got the CD again.
David R. Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks everybody knows how much I enjoy the circus Did you listen to the CD and enjoy it? Anyone can Google David Amos wiretap and enjoy it too N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
There always 1 bad apple in the barrel to ruin it.
Claude DeRoche Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: AGREE! HP 08/16/2019 Trudeau, Scheer Had Awkward Exchange Celebrating National Acadian Day In New Brunswick
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks you have picked up a fan N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Yes Trudeau look pretty stupid with the meeting with Sheer.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks it was a meeting of Dumb and Dumber N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: Oh I agree 100 %. I here there making an other movie with these 2 . Dumberer and Dumbest.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: Oh my.
Lou Bell
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: That barrel was pretty well full of SANB Liberals . Language only crowd , nothing more .
Marc Martin
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Sheer is desperate to get has much votes he can, by the way people tend to forget the Atlantic regions where like a cancer for Stephen Harper, he brought np positive here while in power 10 years +
Marc Martin
Reply to @Lou Bell: You where there ?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: Trudeau seems to be the desperate one. Trying to by votes with tax payers money putting Canada deeper in debt.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: "I here there making an other movie with these 2 . Dumberer and Dumbest." Are you sure English is your first languages?
Claude DeRoche
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We live in a strange world, it was bad that Gallant supported his Acadian heritage with the SANB, but we must venerate a COR Party Premier! LOL!
Barb Flewwelling
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Former COR Party member. Does the COR Party still exist? Blaine Higgs seems to be an inclusive rather than exclusive personality whatever his beliefs were in the past. I haven’t heard him ranting against bilingualism.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you are gonna beat on the drum all day and I am gonna enjoy taking the wind out of your sails N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Hmmm
Welby Trutthough
His costume looks very creepy, like a wizard, or satanic. I wish we could be proud of our two main linguistic communities without the need to impose bilingualism on everyone. I would have absolutely no problem with a unilingual francophone premier so I don't understand why anyone has a problem with our wonderful premier who is learning to speak in two languages. We need to unite in New Brunswick, let go of the past, build understanding, create an environment where nobody feels their language and heritage is under threat. I don't understand the insistence by a bilingual minority that everyone and everything be bilingual. Sure, billingualism is great and more billingual people would be great, but the way the tiny bilingual minority goes about imposing it on everyone is only creating division and quite frankly is a bit supremacist. We live in a country where the federal government sells marijuana and persecutes Christians, perhaps we should unite in mutual respect and be thankful that the best anglophone Canadians live in New Brunswick and the best francophone Canadians live in New Brunswick.
Daryl Doucette
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Good luck finding a unilingual francophone here in New Brunswick.
David R. Amos
Reply to @daryl doucette: They are rare
Daryl Doucette
Reply to @David R. Amos: your not kiddin!
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @daryl doucette: Well there are certainly many francophones who are more comfortable speaking in French and have better understanding speaking in French. I think everyone is more comfortable speaking in their native language. I am against government imposed bilingualism, but that cuts both ways. I don't believe an English person has automatic rights to government services in English in the peninsula, just the same as I don't believe that a New Brunswicker has automatic rights to services in French in Woodstock. Without government imposed billingualism I think the people of this province would manage just fine. In mostly francophone areas, those providing services would likely be francophones. In mostly anglophone areas, anglophones. In truly bilingual areas, there'd be more bilingual people working. In areas where there were unilingual francophones and unilingual anglophones, there'd be a mix of francophone and anglophone staff. The point is, we don't need the government meddling in our lives and denying born and bred New Brunswickers (of either linguistic community) government job opportunities simply based on the fact that they aren't bilingual. Why does a hospital employee in Caraquet need to know English, and why does a hospital employee in Woodstock need to know French? What difference does it make to the job they perform?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: ". I would have absolutely no problem with a unilingual francophone premier". - Never gonna happen. Can you say this with a straight face? If you wouldn't have a problem, I know many here who would, including me.
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Why do you never take me at my word? If he couldn't even so much as say "hello" in English, but he banned marijuana and did other things I think need to be done, then I'd say he was the best premier we ever had.
Greg Windsor
Reply to @daryl doucette: .... well I have encountered a few up north who either did not speak English or would not, and sadly I think the would not is correct
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Greg Windsor: this is completely false. I travel the whole province and unilingual Anglophones are treated with much more respect up North than a Francophone who dares to speak French down South.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: PURE D BS
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: have you even been up North ?
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: This is true. I can go to Edmonton and speak English and nobody blinks, I can imagine that people would be shocked in anglophone areas to have someone come up and begin speaking French to them.
Welby Trutthough
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Edmunston! auto correct!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you SANB dudes forgot that my Acadian friend Roger Richard also ran in the last election N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: You are completely false. I was up in Kouchibouguac Park went into a store the person refused to speak English which is his right but I know enough French to tell him what I thought of his attitude and left without spending any money there,. His lost and this is a tourist area. And no I am not bilingual.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Where do you think Roger Richard lives?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Why would people in anglophone areas be shocked there is more than Anglophone and Francophone people living all over this province who native language is neither.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: Well let me Guess, Northern N.B.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: you made this up. It ever happened and you know it.
Marguerite Deschamps Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: furthermore, it's a two way street. If Francophones would boycott every place where they could not be served in French, guess who would be on the losing end? Now you know how we feel. Marguerite Deschamps Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: many times Francophones cannot receive French service at the TH in Saint-Louis-de-Kent, right next to Kouchibouguac National Park!
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: No you don't know how I feel since my Language is near obsolete and 40 % of NBer's have Keltic heritage compared to 30% of French so you have no clue and just want to keep N.B divided.
Bernie Heather McIntyre Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Your just making that up.
David R. Amos Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Methinks everybody knows my that friend Roger Richard lives in Saint-Louis-de-Kent and I as the Chief of the Amos Clan (who does not have much respect for snobby Anglos who think they understand other cultures) have always felt more welcome in that area by my fellow New Brunswickers Perhaps folks should ask me why I was also welcome in Lousiana back in the 1980s N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre Reply to @David R. Amos: Very good my friend and as I have been brought up , if you give respect you shall receive it from me no matter what language or race one would be.
Marc Martin
Reply to @daryl doucette: There are a lot of them, only ignorant people tend to believe the opposite.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Welby Trutthough: Most services have been concentrated in Fredericton, in fact id say 80% + are. So what is your solution to put back all the services in the regions ?
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: I absolutely agree with you, there will never be a unilingual premier ever, can you imagine the outrage ? And yet we are the entitled ones.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: omg you dont have to go south, people still snear at me when I speak French here in Fredericton.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Their kind make a lot of things up...get used it.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: Keltic is not an official language now is it ?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: Oh so now your saying Higgs is not a unilingual premier.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: No it isn't but we don't cry about it like your kind.
Claude DeRoche Content disabled New Brunswicker's need to unite under our COR Party / English Speaking Association Premier!
Barb Flewwelling
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Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Whoa buddy! Climb down from your high horse!
David R. Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Barb Flewwelling: Methinks folks should enjoy knocking him off it N'esy Pas?
Lewis Taylor It doesn't take much to start a language fight in NB. It is like a match to dry kindling. Haters just waiting to pounce because of a stupid comment by an irrelevant artist. People need to take a valium or two and go get some fresh air.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Methinks you are pretty good at picking a fight as well N'esy Pas?
Marilyn Carr
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: what do you mean START? lol
Dan Lee
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: Yes it is the english nature to want everything from everybody..........so there is no start and no end untill it is taken
Barb Flewwelling
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: United we stand! Do we really want a divided NB?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Barb Flewwelling: It already is
McKenzie King The singer obviously understand the English that Premier Higgs spoke, so what's the problem??? Language is simply a communications tool. We need to start looking at ways that we are similar and stop celebrating ways in which we are different.
David R. Amos
Reply to @McKenzie King: Vive la différence
Claude DeRoche Content Disabled It was already gone before I could save it
David R. Amos
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks you should say hey to your beloved SANB puppet our former liberal Premier N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Did you see there?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: I thought I saw you at the raising of the Acadian flag in Riverside-Albert.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks the photo offered in this article attests to the fact that some old Maritimers look a lot alike but I bet you are one of the ones bald ones who are as common as mud and jealous of our hair N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin Reply to @McKenzie King: What is the premier was French only ?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Marc Martin: a French only Premier? It will never happen.
David R. Amos Welcome to the Circus
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Methinks at lot of Anglos who hate my beard and my Chiac must have read Serge Brideau's shirt by now N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David R. Amos: he could pass as your twin.
Marc Martin Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: You mean that was not Davis on the stage ? Mario Doucet In a majority English speaking province a premier speaking French is just another option not a requirement.
Dan Lee
Reply to @Mario Doucet: Not if he needs seats
David R. Amos
Reply to @Dan Lee: True
Marc Bourque As a Francophone ,I find this deplorable.There is a time and place to criticize.......
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marc Bourque: I agree
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marc Bourque: Actually the right to expression might disagree with you.
Jonas Smith Im fully bilingual, but all this does is reinforce the view that francophones won't consider Anglos bilingual unless they speak fluent french. I've let a great deal of francophones pass with their less than perfect English skills cause I know first hand how hard it is to learn a second language.
Claude DeRoche Content Disabled It was already gone before I could save it
Marilyn Carr
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: SANB is the COR party for the french.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: You seem to be stuck in the year 1991. Wake up it's 2019.
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Marilyn Carr: YUP
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: Hmmmm
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: You should know as your part of COR.
Graeme Scott Robert Melanson, president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, [B]didn't condemn the statement[/B]
That kind of says it all.
Donald Smith
Reply to @Graeme Scott: Yup, there it is ?
Marilyn Carr
Reply to @Graeme Scott: SANB is the cor party for the french.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: YUP
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marilyn Carr: You should know I guess your part of COR.
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: Wake up . Its'2019 not1991.
Claude DeRoche
An insult to the Irving COR Party Boy!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Methinks that was blatantly obvious N'esy Pas?
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @David R. Amos: People who live in a 1 dimensional world wouldn't see that.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Bernie Heather McIntyre: the unilingual 1 dementional world!
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Any 1 dimensional world.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: Not really an insult if its the truth.
David White
A jokey novelty act that is appreciated by a small audience. Supported by funding from the taxpayers. Who cares what the guy says?
David White
They need all the attention they can get since no one knows who they are outside there friends.
David White
*their friends
David R. Amos
Reply to @David White: I care
Marc Martin
Reply to @David White: Scotland games where supported by the tax payers also....
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: What is Scotland games?
Mike Steeves
why the hell should he even have to learn french? he can get and interpreter
Claude DeRoche
Reply to @Mike Steeves: Please translate to English?
John Smith
Reply to @Claude DeRoche: more like translate the accent eh yall
John Smith
Reply to @john smith: dialects and accents happen in all languages
Al Clark
Reply to @Mike Steeves: LOL a lovely illustration of the fact that many COR can't speak, read, or write IN ENGLISH!
David R. Amos
Reply to @Al Clark: Oh My My
Marc Martin
Reply to @Mike Steeves: Yes lets pay more money for the premier !!! you must have voted vor PANB...
Bernie Heather McIntyre
Reply to @Marc Martin: Wake up this is 2019 were there are apps for it. And guess what there free.
Lou Bell Sorry Serge , the tail wagging the dog isn't in the cards. Try harder ! You , Marc , and Marc uerite .
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Is your menu in French?
Marc Martin
Reply to @Lou Bell: Why would you call yourself that horrible animal name !!!
Lou Bell Same people wanting to copy 1st nations call for recognition of genocide. It happened 250 years ago . Get over it ! Is there any group more self indulgent than the SANB in NB ? Nope !
Mike Steeves
Reply to @Lou Bell: i don't think they know what genocide actually means.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks Mr Higgsand his buddies in the Irving Clan are rather self indulgent N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps Anyone who aspires to become Premier should have become bilingual a long time ago. Higgs has no excuse for his linguistic shortcomings.
Lou Bell
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Language should be a token requirement at best. Intelligence Trumps it every time , except of course when the SANB Liberals are in office .
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Lou Bell: intelligent people can learn the two official languages. The elusive Higgs Boson is just an Irving puppet.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you SANB dudes should try telling folks something they don't already know N'esy Pas?
Agree!
Higgs a failed leadership contender for the COR Party,
the membership at the time felt he was to radical.