{"id":3771,"date":"2011-05-03T23:05:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2011-05-03T23:05:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:05:02","slug":"bilingualism-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/bilingualism-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilingualism in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know almost nothing about Canadian politics, but I had always assumed that it was a bit like Belgium (where the parties are split along linguistic lines).  In other words, I had expect the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois to represent the francophones and the other parties to cater for the anglophones.<\/p>\n<p>However, I just stumbled upon this recent Canadian leaders&#8217; debate in French:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ehm7jnimZKE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Only the Bloc leader is a native French speaker, but impressively all of the others are able to discuss politics in intelligible French.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know many other countries where this level of bilingualism would be assumed for top politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know almost nothing about Canadian politics, but I had always assumed that it was a bit like Belgium (where the parties are split along linguistic lines). In other words, I had expect the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois to represent the francophones and the other parties to cater for the anglophones. However, I just stumbled upon this recent Canadian leaders&#8217; debate in French: Only the Bloc leader is a native French speaker, but impressively all of the others are able to discuss politics in intelligible French. I don&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,162,117,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fr","category-linguistics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}