MP addresses Canadian Parliament in MOHAWK

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So how many interpreters were employed with tax payer dollars to deal with this publicity stunt?
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
So, was the effect that there's now a big push to make Mohawk the third official language of Canada?
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Dene in my opinion has the strongest case to becoming a 3rd language here in Canada. If were about making one of the FN languages official

Corduroy said:
Now? Guy made his speech yesterday. We're still trying to determine if covfefe is masculine or feminine.
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Euro-centric. The majority of FN were gender neutral before Europeans came here
 
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Lies. Canada is named for Jean Caunadieu, the legendary voyageur who invented the moose and scored a 4 goal hat trick in the first hockey game against the New York Clodhoppers (then New Amsterdam). He forged the Stanley Cup with his bear hands (not a typo) and named it after his lady love Charlotte Stanley, an Englishwoman abducted by Irishmen and left adrift in the St. Lawrence in a canoe. We all learn this story in school. I don't know what you're talking about with this Kanien'kéha business. That doesn't even sound Mohawk. And having listened to an MP speak Mohawk, I think I would know what Mohawk sounds like. Kanien'kéha must be Hawaiian. A kind of pizza, I might add, invented by Charlotte Stanley to celebrate the birth of John A. Macdonald. Get it together man.
 
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I love how the Liberals pretend to give a shit about the Native people and then continue to ignore their genuine needs.
 
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In the UK Parliament, whenever a public bill is given royal assent from the monarch, the Norman French "La Reyne le veult" ("The Queen wills it") or "Le Roy le veult" ("The King wills it") is shouted out.

Should royal assent be refused, the expression "La Reyne/Le Roy s'avisera," "The Queen/King will be advised" would be used, though no monarch has denied royal assent since Queen Anne in 1708.

For a supply bill, an alternative phrase is used: "La Reyne/Le Roy remercie ses bons sujets, accepte leur benevolence, et ainsi le veult."("The Queen/King thanks her/his good subjects, accepts their bounty, and wills it so").

For a private bill, the phrase "Soit fait comme il est désiré" ("Let it be done as it is desired") is used.

Norman French is still spoken in the Channel Islands.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
So, was the effect that there's now a big push to make Mohawk the third official language of Canada?
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I'm not sure about that. I see English, French, and Chinese at ATMs and on the Air Canada website but not Mohawk yet. It's about time we show the coolies who helped to build the railroad to unite this country some respect.

Though the Mohawks belong to the Six-Nations confederacy if I remember correctly. I'd read the Great Law of Peace a long time ago. Quite an impressive document. The story of the Great Peacemaker was impressive too.

Corduroy said:
Lies. Canada is named for Jean Caunadieu, the legendary voyageur who invented the moose and scored a 4 goal hat trick in the first hockey game against the New York Clodhoppers (then New Amsterdam). He forged the Stanley Cup with his bear hands (not a typo) and named it after his lady love Charlotte Stanley, an Englishwoman abducted by Irishmen and left adrift in the St. Lawrence in a canoe. We all learn this story in school. I don't know what you're talking about with this Kanien'kéha business. That doesn't even sound Mohawk. And having listened to an MP speak Mohawk, I think I would know what Mohawk sounds like. Kanien'kéha must be Hawaiian. A kind of pizza, I might add, invented by Charlotte Stanley to celebrate the birth of John A. Macdonald. Get it together man.
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That sounds like the kind of thing Blackleaf would invent in praise of Britannia.

Corduroy said:
He's a Christian.
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Don't tarnish Christians like that.

JamesBondo said:
So how many interpreters were employed with tax payer dollars to deal with this publicity stunt?
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I agree. Parliament should function in only two languages: Esperanto (because English is too difficult for Quebecers and French for other Canadians) and International Sign (for any Deaf politician who needs interpretation between a spoken and a sign language). Done. :)
 
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taxslave said:
Because it is not like he has to do the job taxpayers are paying him for.



Not a job. Make work project for otherwise unemployable social workers.
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Its in his own self interest to find ways to continually find new ways to pander to everyone in the hope of winning the next election.

Funny that mentalflake thinks it's amazing. When its obviously only to server the MPs own self interest.

Its not hard to trick a mentalflake :)
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
In response to this "fukking incredible" stunt, the entire Canadian Parliament immediately trooped off to the airport and flew back to Europe, vowing never to return.
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It's the Mohawk who should go back to where they came from.

... somewhere around Schenectady ...


... worse than Syrians ...
 
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Corduroy said:
Lies. Canada is named for Jean Caunadieu, the legendary voyageur who invented the moose and scored a 4 goal hat trick in the first hockey game against the New York Clodhoppers (then New Amsterdam). He forged the Stanley Cup with his bear hands (not a typo) and named it after his lady love Charlotte Stanley, an Englishwoman abducted by Irishmen and left adrift in the St. Lawrence in a canoe. We all learn this story in school. I don't know what you're talking about with this Kanien'kéha business. That doesn't even sound Mohawk. And having listened to an MP speak Mohawk, I think I would know what Mohawk sounds like. Kanien'kéha must be Hawaiian. A kind of pizza, I might add, invented by Charlotte Stanley to celebrate the birth of John A. Macdonald. Get it together man.
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Wow! I learned something there. Please, oh please, pardon me for being such an ignorant Yank!!!!
 
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gopher said:
Well, if true that why the heck not? After all Canada is named for the Kanien'kéha. Time for all of you to go back to your roots. :)
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Corduroy said:
Lies. Canada is named for Jean Caunadieu, the legendary voyageur who invented the moose and scored a 4 goal hat trick in the first hockey game against the New York Clodhoppers (then New Amsterdam). He forged the Stanley Cup with his bear hands (not a typo) and named it after his lady love Charlotte Stanley, an Englishwoman abducted by Irishmen and left adrift in the St. Lawrence in a canoe. We all learn this story in school. I don't know what you're talking about with this Kanien'kéha business. That doesn't even sound Mohawk. And having listened to an MP speak Mohawk, I think I would know what Mohawk sounds like. Kanien'kéha must be Hawaiian. A kind of pizza, I might add, invented by Charlotte Stanley to celebrate the birth of John A. Macdonald. Get it together man.
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You are both wrong....
Aboriginal roots

The name “Canada” likely comes from the Huron-Iroquois word “kanata,” meaning “village” or “settlement.” In 1535, two Aboriginal youths told French explorer Jacques Cartier about the route to kanata; they were actually referring to the village of Stadacona, the site of the present-day City of Québec. For lack of another name, Cartier used the word “Canada” to describe not only the village, but the entire area controlled by its chief, Donnacona.
The name was soon applied to a much larger area; maps in 1547 designated everything north of the St. Lawrence River as Canada. Cartier also called the St. Lawrence River the “rivière du Canada,” a name used until the early 1600s. By 1616, although the entire region was known as New France, the area along the great river of Canada and the Gulf of St. Lawrence was still called Canada.
Soon explorers and fur traders opened up territory to the west and to the south, and the area known as Canada grew. In the early 1700s, the name referred to all French lands in what is now the American Midwest and as far south as present-day Louisiana.
The first use of Canada as an official name came in 1791, when the Province of Quebec was divided into the colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. In 1841, the two colonies were united under one name, the Province of Canada.
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Government of Canada source: Origin of the name Canada - Canada.ca
 
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