I write this in protest. Not to the Olympics, but its organizers. The opening ceremony was beautiful. I’m insulted that French was spoken first and then translated into English.

We are not a French country, not owned by France, not a French holding, French island or French province owned by France. We are Canadian and English is our first language. Not French!

I am insulted that a lovely girl with a beautiful voice had to sing a crappy version of O Canada and that 90 per cent of it was sang in French.

How are our children to learn English if everything is half English and half French? My Aussie and British friends watching wanted to know when Canada became a French country?

I am proud to be Canadian and while Quebec still believes it’s French owned, it’s about time Canada opened its eyes. We are a Christian country with English first language and French as a second language.

No other host country of Olympics would insult its people by speaking French first and its native language second, so why have we been thus insulted?

BETH JOHNSON

Kamloops