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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-11-28, Page 7DELEGATES attending the Ontario -Quebec Conference on Tourism were: front row (left to right), The Honourable James Auld, Minister of the Ontario Department of Travel and Publicity; William Cranston, Chairman, Tourist Industry Committee, Ontario Economic Council; Robert Prevost, Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Tourism, Fish and Game; Robert Boyer, MPP, Bracebridge Herald Gazette, Brace - bridge, Ont. Back Row (left to right), Gerry Scott, Gananoque Reporter, Gananoque; John Morris, Prescott Journal, Prescott; Robert Giles, Jr., The Watchman, Lachute, Quebec; Lynn Lashbrook, Rodney, Ont., President, Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association; Roger Alarie, The Guardian, Verdun; Fernand Berthiaume, L'Argenteuil, Lachute. THIS WEEK AND NEXT CAN CANADA SURVIVE? By RAY ARGYLE 'there is now serious doub whether there is any longer an real justification for Canada' existence as nation. The sores al ready laid bare by the Royal Commission on B i 1 i ngualism and Bicultur- ism, if allow- ed to fester a n,y further could pollute Canada's body R. Argyle politic beyond hope of re- t Y s a eovery. In the submissions made so far to the Dunton-Laurendeau commission, not a single brief has faced up to the essential problem that this country must ultimately face - national sur- vival. Quebec's St. Jean Baptiste So- ciety, for example, threatened to boycott the commission if it dealt with the broad question of relations between all of Can- ada's ethnic groups. Keep the inquiry to the single issue of French -English relations, the society warned: Minority ethnic groups, rang- ing from native Indian to Jew- ish and Ukrainian, rpse to warn they would claim their rights in a multi -cultural society. The phrase "two founding nations" brought special ire from these blocs. Nowhere was there a voice calling for the strengthening of Canada as a national entity - except on terms designed to promote each ethnic group's own interests. Eight million of Canada's peo- ple are of British origin. Six million have French origins, while the other five million have origins neither British nor French. French Canadians can be for- given, to an extent, for their insistence on a new deal in this country because it is obvious that English Canada has his- torically short-changed its part- ner in Confederation. It must be realized that Can- ada came into being as a re- sult of a solemn pact between English and French-speaking elements that both cultures and languages would have equality in the nation. This did not mean that ev- ery individual Canadian would be bilingual. It meant, instead, that every Canadian would have the opportunity to achieve a full life in either of the two cul. tures. This has simply not worked out for the French-Canadian. Partly due to the backwardness of his own society (as most French-Canadians now 'realize) but also due to the , resistence of English Canada, the French half of the nation has been subjugated by the other. Now that Canada's French community has broken out of its barrier of silence, the coun- try's minority ethnic groups have been led to question the sanctity of the English -French relationship. Motivated perhaps by fear of being overwhelmed in a two - culture society, they seem to be saying: "If the French can demand equality, then we should, too," Why mince pies for Christ mas? In the Middle Ages, one of the Yuletide dishes was a pie made of sweet meat and rich spices, and it was baked in a shape to represent the cradle -manger in which the Baby Jesus lay.- It was Eng. land's Queen Elizabeth 1 who popularized the dish. The turkey was not always the traditional Christmas bird. For centuries the superb bird of the Christmas table was the peacock and hours were spent ih its preparation. The skin was carefully removed with feathers undisturbed. After the bird had been roasted and al- lowed to cool down, its beak was painted with gold and the feathered skin very carefully sewn into place,. What the ethnic groups over- look is that French and English have these special rights only because of their partnership in the founding of Canada. When they grasp this, the ethnic minorities will then re- alize that French Canada is ac- tually fighting their battle, too -a battle for equal treatment for all, regardless of national background. In the United, which is basic- ally a one -culture society, all immigrant groups have merged through the melting pot pro- cess into an American society. This is a historical process which is unique in the world. Canada has resisted the melt- ing pot process. Faced with the inescapable fact of a . two -cul- ture origin, the melting pot is obviously not acceptable here. 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