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Originally Posted by GregHickman
You'll never get Anglophone Southwest & West New Brunswick to agree to this. Ever. There's a feeling down here that the Acadiens are the reason why New Brunswick has toiled for so long, so enforcing French on their children in school to that degree just isn't going to happen. Of course, Saint John is bitter at anyone or thing that isn't Saint John, so getting it to agree to any sort of equal representation throughout the province isn't going to sail.
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The Acadians may, as others have suggested, be more compromising and acoomodating in everyday life (and more bilingual for sure), but I am not sure that they would EVER go for a unified school system as has been suggested.
NB Acadians are very attached to their distinct francophone institutions, which they fought tooth and nail to obtain. I highly doubt they would be willing to give them up, whether they are subjected to "apartheid" insinuations or not...