Quote Originally Posted by LXNDR View Post
with such percentage, this Ukrainian law the MPs scrap over, would grant these Ukrainians the right to demand declaring Ukrainian a provincial language alongside English and French, don't you think it's ridiculous?
You see, I'm in no position to say that would be ridiculous or not. That's why there are provincial legislatures. A province is typically entitled to make a choice like that. I observed that if a movement like that is very strong and speaks to many citizens, the stakes in the provincial legislature would be pretty high and they would try to perhaps look for a compromise. The reason being is that the politicians are typically riding the waves to gain the votes. The present MP in that area would either vote for Ukrainian language and blame the failure on the other MPs, or face replacement in the other term. Those 'turnaround' forces are pretty strong and MPs would typically prefer to comply. There might be political tricks like following: "Oh, you want Ukrainian become another provincial language? Sure, why not! But, that would cost another $2,000,000 a year for the province and should have subsidized by the higher taxes. Are you ready for that?!!" And then there's going to be the whole fuss about that which would either settle down to the higher provincial taxes or to the majority rejecting that on that ground. But, not because: "Ahh!! Those Ukrainians came to our country and now want to be a dominant force and discriminate against Metis who are 7th number in the population and not the 10th!!" And so on. Do you see the difference?

So, honestly, I'm not really familiar with Ukrainian economy that well, but deep down I sense making Russian another official language would bring more money to the state than actually would be spent by the state to maintain the extra resources. Does it make sense?

Quote Originally Posted by LXNDR View Post
that's the exact reason why Ukrainian has to remain the sole official language, i mentioned this reason earlier in this thread
You mentioned that, and I mentioned a peaceful solution that worked. Would you be able to elaborate why that solution would not work in Ukraine if implemented? An official language means that the citizen has a right to request a service from the state in either of the official language and the state is required by law to provide the service in that language.