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Pardon my English, but has anything ever bedeviled this country more than language? It’s the membrane that separates us. It’s the crux on which our history has turned. Or, if you prefer, the cross we’ve always borne. If language can be said to have had any unifying force in Canada, it would have been its power to inspire episodes of feuding accommodation-usually at the end of a gun or government fiat.) The one constant that backdrops these accommodations has been our mutual resentment. In 145 years of nationhood, language hasn’t brought us any closer to understanding one another. And that was just with two languages. Now, according to the latest Statistics Canada census, we speak more than 200. This is hardly news. Walk the streets, go to any public school. and you’ll hear as much. What is news is Statistics Canada's recent profile this week of the concentration of that multilingualism. The 2001 Census found one-sixth of the population spoke a language other than French or English at home. The 2011 census found that percentage had increased to onefifth of the population. That is astounding growth. That growth is continuing. Most of those 200 languages were spoken in small enough numbers to be statistically negligible, but a significant few—most of them Asian—were being spoken in such great numbers and have been so concentrated in the country’s major cities that their use has, effectively, nullified Canada's policy of two official languages. Bilingualism is dead. Or at least it’s been relegated to the status of charming relic. While bilingualism statistically is holding its own, allophones will soon outnumber francophones in Canada. The federal government might continue to observe the niceties of bilingualism in the face of this fact, but the real world will ignore it. True bilingualism has always been an Ottawa pipe dream,' anyway, and I’m pretty sure not even Ottawa buys into it any more. Multilingualism has stepped in to fill that void. Or more precisely, stomped in. The official version of this complete and radical transformation of the country's fabric—accomplished in the space of a generation— goo thus: Multilingualism is a wonderful thing, the diversity of which is evidence Of Canada's enlightened tolerance. "When I look at the globalized world that We live in,” The Sun quoted Doug Norris, chief demographer at Environics Analytics, as saying, “the fact that we ourselves are becoming more diverse and reflecting all of those languages is a real asset to us as a country today. I think it strengthens us as a nation as opposed to a country which was very singular in terms of its language or ethnicity" This is a lovely view of the world, and not necessarily untrue, though I can think of a few countries, some of them economic powerhouses, that despite a distaste for diversity have had no trouble operating in a global market. But given the strife that language has caused in Canada, and given our historical track record, you would think there might be a more skeptical and frank discussion about multilingualism. Which is to say, Canadians do not live in a "globe." They live in neighborhoods, And Canada isn’t a corporation. It’s a nation. There is a big difference. So, the question should be, does multilingualism work •at the street level, and has it made us stronger as a society? Or has it made our society less cohesive? Are we becoming a truly multicultural nation unified by a global vision, or are we fracturing into a collection of tribes? Does multilingualism and multiculturalism work, not at the corporate board level and in feel-good government press releases, but practically in our cities and our neighborhoods? We step carefully around those questions, ever so sensitive to charges of racism. We are such a nice people, at least in public. But there have been more and more news stories examining the phenomenon of self-ghettoizing, and the concentration of linguistic groups and cultures in such great numbers that the need or compulsion to speak one of the two official languages in public has lessened. This used to be a concern unique to Quebec. It no longer is. The corollary to these doubts harbors an even greater question. Which is, will our growing linguistic diversity change our belief system? Language, after all, is only the vehicle for culture. And my culture, the one I believe in, is a society that embraces women’s rights. Sexual tolerance a healthy skepticism of authority(rather than a deference to it) and a belief Canadian brand socialism I don’t want, to see these beliefs eroded. the question is –and it’s one we shouldn’t be afraid to ask—in the future we’ve embarked upon, are we going be the same page on those issues, or will we be speaking a different language?
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In the view of the various languages in Canada, there has been the idea of whether to use
the set lingual languages are focus on the diverse languages. In the focus of the nation over time,
it has been seen that the use of the various languages has been an avenue that has caused division
in the nation. One of these ideas has been on whether individuals should embrace the use of the
language that are diverse in nature.
Over the years it has been seen that the use of the various languages has brought about
some level of disunity in the society. People are divided on whether it is crucial for the
countrymen to use their languages are engage in the utilization of the various languages. I...


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