Despite the fact that the Vancouver Olympics have been over for 10 months it still has managed to make news. It has been hidden from the public eye for a while, but apparently the amount French spoken at the opening ceremony in Victoria that was held before the games had started was below the minimum established in 1988. This minimum amount was established to keep Quebec from separating from the rest of Canada. Vanoc did not mention a word about the criticism of there being very little French spoken at the ceremony.
My response to this story is that it is very surprising as you would think that this ceremony would have been able to at least match the minimum amount of French needed to be spoken. It seems that people thought that just because it was in Victoria that meant that they could ignore it. The last thing Canada wants is to be separated from Quebec and what occurred in this pre-ceremony suggests that Canada wants the opposite. In my opinion it’s our duty as Canadians to meet up to the standards of holding a bilingual country. This is not a small issue and here we thought that news about the Olympics were done and over with. I am amazed that VANOC failed to realize that the ceremony didn’t meet up to standards that keep this country together. You’d think with the money tax payers poured into the Olympics that VANOC would have planned the ceremony out better obviously not.
Source
News Source: The Vancouver Sun
Title: Wake up Call: Vancouver 2010 Olympics continue to make news
Date: Dec 16
Author: Cam Cole, Vancouver Sun
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