Acadie is the envy of francophone minorities elsewhere and I am proud. Modern Acadie is in the only bilingual province and I am proud. But I need police protection to raise my flag in the capital city. The United Nations has called us a people. But Acadians in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island still wait for Acadian-governed schools.
Canadian federalists hold up New Brunswick as an example for their cause.
We practice the politics of the possible and hope it is enough. We know it is not enough. Rosella Melanson First published in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal August 2000. Rosella Melanson is a writer residing in Moncton. Her column, Subject to Debate, appears in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal.