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Instead of arguing, can I ask you two simple questions, Acajack?
Would you be in favour of allowing English and French to be the same size on signs in Quebec at least if French is present?
Would you be in favour of allowing anglophone immigrants from anglophone countries to attend English public schools in Quebec, the same way francophone immigrants can attend French public schools in the ROC?
Instead of arguing, can I ask you two simple questions, Acajack?
Would you be in favour of allowing English and French to be the same size on signs in Quebec at least if French is present?
Would you be in favour of allowing anglophone immigrants from anglophone countries to attend English public schools in Quebec, the same way francophone immigrants can attend French public schools in the ROC?
On the schools, I would actually be in favour of a unified school system for everyone that would teach something like 80% of the day in French and 20% of the day in English. But this is constitutionally impossible in Canada.
As for signs I am mostly in favour of the status quo. Like it or not, the French language (more than having a few hundred thousand citizens who can sing songs from Monty Python or quote the Church Lady from Saturday Night Live) is what makes Quebec stand out in this part of the world. I am not advocating entirely eradicating any language of course, but it's important to me that Quebec look and sound different and unique.
Jambo's parents never had any problems getting him to obey through stories about the bogeyman or the sandman...
AJ i'm just pointing out the extremes to which this Quebec government will go to to bring about linguistic purity,as this separatist government is the product of the culture you so readily seem to champion i'd say its time for you to own it rather than frivolously equating Quebecs draconian language legislation as being akin to bogieman/sandman stories.
Both my parents were active participants in the second world war and know full well where cultural intolerance can lead.
AJ i'm just pointing out the extremes to which this Quebec government will go to to bring about linguistic purity,as this separatist government is the product of the culture you so readily seem to champion i'd say its time for you to own it rather than frivolously equating Quebecs draconian language legislation as being akin to bogieman/sandman stories. Both my parents were active participants in the second world war and know full well where cultural intolerance can lead.
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What hole are we talking about that you seem to think i'm digging for myself?,
The only hole i see being dug around here is Quebecs maniacal obsession to make itself into a one dimensional intolerant cultural backwater.
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What hole are we talking about that you seem to think i'm digging for myself?,
The one where your natural allies across the rest of the continent no longer have any time for your gripes because of your propensity to blow every single thing (no matter how small or insignificant) out of proportion and equate it will with, for example, the genocide of six million people.
The one where your natural allies across the rest of the continent no longer have any time for your gripes because of your propensity to blow every single thing (no matter how small or insignificant) out of proportion and equate it will with, for example, the genocide of six million people.
Just pointing out the lunacy of some of Quebecs language laws most of which defy logic, maybe small stuff from your perspective AJ but from an Anglo in Quebec's perspective the suspending of civil liberties is a big deal.As an example, expecting people to abide by laws such as these is absurd CBC.ca Montreal - Interactive - Highlights from Bill 14
as for allies across the continent ? the Anglos in Quebec have no allies,we're on our own.
And for the equating of Quebec with the Nazis? It was an example of where unbridled intolerance can lead rather than a comparison of the two situations,that said the path to the Holocaust did begin with the denial of civil liberties to the Jews of Germany.
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