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David Perlmutter's avatar

But when a family doesn’t speak English, they miss the notifications that come in the mail. After a few months, they find themselves running into issues with the school district, or they lose their jobs, or they get evicted.

They pack up, relocate, and the whole process starts again."

Things like this run slightly different in Canada. Since English and French are treated equally within the public service, immigrants from French-speaking countries have a better chance getting a good job within that venture. And, in most cases, the immigrants would be joining a well-operating society of their people as part of the regular population. In my hometown of Winnipeg, we now have several pocket neighborhoods like this from the African and Asian diaspora (and, unlike in the U.S., people don't make too much of a racial fuss about it, though they once would have...).

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Sally's avatar

Exactly what I needed this morning. Thank you.

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