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#1 02-06-09 12:49 pm

heipauli
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Registered: 12-28-08
Posts: 205

Have we gone too far??

Quote: <BR> <BR>&#34;The failure to provide basic services in the Saami language has resulted in the imposition of a conditional fine by Finland’s National Discrimination Tribunal. The 5,000-euro fine is the first of its kind to be handed down.  <BR>At the heart of the dispute is the provision of day care services in the Saami language in the northern municipality of Enontekiö.  <BR>Minority Ombusdman Johanna Suurpää slapped the conditional fine on the municipality for neglecting to provide the contested service. The fine was imposed when the town of Kilpisjärvi failed to hire a care provider for the village’s only Saami child.  <BR>“The Child Day Care Act calls on municipalities throughout the country to provide child care services in Finnish, Swedish and Saami,” Suurpää pointed out.  <BR>Pentti Keskitalo, head of the Enontekiö municipality said that several attempts to find a Saami care provider in Kilpisjärvi were unsuccessful.  <BR>“Kilpisjärvi is so far from other villages that no one wants to work there,” Keskitalo explained.  <BR>The case is now before the Administrative Court. Finland observes Saami National Day on Friday.&#34; <BR> <BR>Source: <BR><a href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2009/02/conditional_fine_for_neglect_of_saami_language_service_530949.html" target=_top>http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2009/02/conditional_fin e_for_neglect_of_saami_language_service_530949.htm l</a> <BR> <BR>BTW, dear reader <BR> <BR>did you  actually understand at all? <BR> <BR>The stand taken means the <i>everyone of Finnish municipalities</i> must offer child care services in Saami language, in spite of the fact that there are only 1800 speakers of that lingo in Finland.  <BR> <BR>Even one child in a municipality is entitled to get that service in his/her own language. <BR> <BR>WDYT?

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