Is the Liberal Party willing to lose the next election over this flawed decision? 

Civil War is brewing...

Chantel Hebert discusses the irony of the timing of the NB Government's decision to axe EFI as it coincides with the point at which the first  generation of Canadians to benefit from EFI are coming into their political prime.  She also points out that this is the first time in the country's history that an anglophone population is protesting that there is not enough French, rather than too much.

Graham Fraser, the Federal Commissioner of Official Languages, delivered a speech on February 20th in which he talks about bilingualism as an essential element of leadership within Public Service.   

The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers has sent a letter to the Department of Education outlining their objections to the proposed elimination of EFI.  The document is also available on the 'documents' tab after you sign in.

The Croll/Lee Report (cost? $180K!) has once again drawn fire from people who can actually do math.  More than 20 professors from UNB have come forward to criticize the highly flawed government report commissioned and defended by Minister Lamrock.  The debaucle over the accuracy of Croll/Lee draws into question all of the governments decisions...can they do the math for the construction of second nuclear reactor?, or the construction of a Uranium mine?, or the efficiencies around Health Care Reform?

One of the three men who drafted New Brunswick's Official Languages Act is disappointed by the government's decision to eliminate early French immersion from the province's school system.

"Everything I have ever done is to enhance this very special and peculiar status we have,'' Robert Pichette, a deputy cabinet minister under Louis Robichaud, said Sunday as he sat in his office at home in Moncton. "It is a rare, good thing.

Funding of $200,000 to support the development of New Brunswick high-school students who have been identified as top performers, innovative thinkers, and future leaders was announced today by Education Minister Kelly Lamrock.  I wonder how many of them are French Immersion students?

Over the weekend, Kelly Lamrock, Minister of Education for NB began the next phase his 'reform package' by beginning the negotiation process with the NBTA in daily papers.  Will this encourage the NBTA to step down off the fence and begin to do what is right for their members or will they continue to ignore their mandate and remain silent?

In an online opinion piece a parent from British Columbia describes the joys of French Immersion.