New Brunswick
New Brunswick enacted its
first Official Languages Act, making the
province Canada's
first, and only,
officially bilingual province.
https://www.google.ca/search?source...0..0i131j0j0i3j0i22i30j0i22i10i30.aRA31ojDMg4
That's what it says.
In reality, NB is NOT Bilingual.
If we were Bilingual, again, we wouldn't need TWO distinct ways to run things, rather it'd be all one, BILINGUAL, state.
Yet we have two health authorities.
We have two school systems (and French kids not allowed on the bus with English at one point recently).
You have to pay for translations to be done which if this province was Bilingual, you would think it'd be automatic and no charge needed (and the rate is atrocious).
There is a HUGE push for French in every part of the province, and yet the province is not meeting obligations to help those who have little to no French reach the level needed, or willingness to help anyone who wants to advance their French actually do so reasonably. Shortages in a lot of places because of the push for bilingualism, which really wasn't a thing until the last, say... ten years or so. Since the previous Language Commissioner decided to make it her personal vendetta to IMO find any insult she could to push a French agenda.
Our Paramedics are short on manpower, hugely, because many of them are not Bilingual but predominantly English. So instead of dealing with the lapse, they are getting out of province paramedics to come in to work, putting our own guys out of work. Or working them into exhaustion because there's no one to cover shifts.
NB has tried for years to be Bilingual. Honestly it just will not happen no matter how much the government wants it to be. There will always be the French North, the English South and the middle ground shore from Cape Tormentine to Miramichi where it's Acandian mixed with localized French dialects. And the more the government pushes for total Bilingualism, the more parts of NB South, at least, will rebel against it.
It's pretty bad when even in my area, French locals think this forced bilingualism is stupid and don't think NB is bilingual at all.