Official bilingualism is forced bilingualism, and forced
bilingualism is quite a different manner. Forcing someone to
speak another language is an abomination. First, forcing someone
to speak in another language is simply a contravention of their
right to free speech. Forcing a person to speak a language can
take the form of preventing a person from expressing their
viewpoints in the language of their choice, as is the case with
Bill 101 in Quebec. It can also take the case of funding speech
in different languages, such as publicly financed television or
radio stations, or mandated actions one must take not in the
language of their choice. It doesn't matter whether the force is
used to promote French, English, German or Mandarin. It is
abridging the freedom to speech. Second, bilingualism creates
two classes of people, namely, those that are bilingual and
those that aren't. As Pierre E. Trudeau notes, "Unilingual
Anglophones will be sentenced to a lifetime of job immobility."
How much more discriminatory can