clarinews@clarinet.com (Kelly/CFRB/CKFM) (02/02/90)
(TORONTO) Ontario's Conservative leader says a legislative committee should tour the province to deal with misunderstandings over French-language services. Andy Brandt says Premier David Peterson shouldn't be casting blame in the French language dispute, but instead should deal with the underlying problem. The Tory leader says some people don't really understand Bill 8, which guarantees French language provincial government services in designated areas. Brandt says an all-party committee should be going into communities such as Sault Ste. Marie. He says they need to sit down and discuss the regulations that apply to the bill and remove the fears that are there. Brandt says his party first recommended this idea two-and-a-half years ago in an effort to head off potential problems.
clarinews@clarinet.com (Kelly/cbc/standard broadcast news) (02/03/90)
(HASTINGS COUNTY, Ontario) A small, rural municipality in eastern Ontario has declared itself unilingual. Hastings County has adopted the English-only stance just days after the controvesial move by Sault Ste. Marie. One of the local politicians in Hastings County says they wanted to send a message to the Ontario government that people are fed up with the cost of bilingualism. Hastings County is wedged between Lake Ontario and Algonquin Park.