Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew — fresh off giving French-only answers in the legislature — wants provincial schools to teach the fierce 1980s backlash against expanding francophone rights.
Kinew's logic: a province that forgets how ugly the language wars got will repeat them. Teaching the backlash inoculates the next generation.
The 6ix lives its own language politics daily — 200+ mother tongues, French services debates, heritage-language programs fighting for funding. Manitoba's lesson travels: rights you don't teach, you lose.
Sources: CBC News. Context from the Young Hadene newsroom.
The intense 1980s public backlash to expanded francophone rights in Manitoba.
So students understand — and don't repeat — that history.