It (the promotion of Mandarin) aims to ensure national cohesion and facilitate communication for people from different regions.

Most Chinese could only speak one local dialect before 1949 when New China was founded. More and more people are 'bilingual' nowadays, as they can speak both Mandarin and a dialect or a language of an ethnic minority.

It was a basic run-through of how we would facilitate our SNS, or strategic national stockpile plan, which is how we dispense meds to citizens in La Salle County, whether it's medication or vaccination.

What the report does highlight is national divergence that we're now seeing across regions, where we see that all the jobs created were in Alberta and British Columbia, whereas central Canada continues to trail behind.

Only by so doing can we ensure the attainment of a new order in the Pacific, that of lasting peace in this region,

There's a lot of people out here that spend a lot of time in promotion, and that just seems like a big waste of time to me.