Why do we continue to emphasis french to get good jobs in a providence that is predominately English. I would thing our money would be better spent on improving basic education Most people in Canada use to speak English until government got involved. Now it cost millions of dollars to provide services and language instruction in both official languages.

Try re-writing your comment using correct English spelling and grammar please if you want anyone to honestly listen to your argument. I mean really... I make a lot of typos on internet posts because my typing skills suck but the above comment is more than typing too fast. It is filled with errors, which normally I don't care about online but, when the commenter is commenting on English education... come on!

Low Blow Mr. Durden...another ting I was taught " if you have nothing nice to say DON"T say it " now what did you accomplish by that remark? feel better now?

I wasn't trying to be insulting. Honestly though, if you want to criticize English language education, you really should at least get the English grammar and spelling right in the criticism itself. To do otherwise would be akin to condemning tobacco companies with a cigarette hanging out of your mouth.

And, as I said in my original post, I normally couldn't care less about grammar and spelling online. The irony was simply to great to ignore it in this case.

I think that argueing over it is silly.. You should however have atleast basic knowledge of English grammer before writing comments in regards to the subject. All silliness asside, It is a real shame that they are doing this to our province. I certainly hope that in the predominantly english speaking areas of the province will be taking the french speaking requirements off of their job advertisments..and that this is governed by the same people that have decided to take this out of our schooling systems. How can they expect that we are able to speak it if they are not going to get us interested in learning it early... when it is easy to learn new things? My bet, late immersion programs see a huge drop in interest. This is a big problem seeing that about half of all Nb'ers are french! As to what the original poster had written in regards to NB being prodominently english.. I think you will find that with all of the billingual people this province has produced it is very close to 50/50.

Well excuse my FRENCH! I am the poster that spoke to the low blow ...I AM FRENCH!!! BATHURST...

It is a shame that we are looksing our EFI program, I hope that what they are putting in place of it does not leave the students that have been learning this Countries second language. I agree with the above comment about french speaking requirements and jobs. It is a sin that our cities and province have lost as many of its people as we have due to more job opportunities. How many more jobs would be open to apply for if you took reading and writing french off of the required list. ALOT. I do not want to see separation between the french and english parts of the province like we have seen between Quebec and the rest of Canda, that is just another battle that we do not need or want to fight.