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Hmmm. If there was a law enacted in BC requiring certain business to only use English in the workplace based on number of employees, I can imagine there would be an uproar of "damn right you should speak English here!". I know people like to think of themselves as tolerant but I taught English in BC to immigrants and I know plenty of them dealt with very strong pressure to conform to English-only. In fact such a rule exists in certain universities (obviously this is university policy rather than legislation), if you speak any language other than English in the classroom you can be disciplined up to expulsion (this isn't well-known amongst laymen), but the sentiment is there.
Hmmm. If there was a law enacted in BC requiring certain business to only use English in the workplace based on number of employees, I can imagine there would be an uproar of "damn right you should speak English here!". I know people like to think of themselves as tolerant but I taught English in BC to immigrants and I know plenty of them dealt with very strong pressure to conform to English-only. In fact such a rule exists in certain universities (obviously this is university policy rather than legislation), if you speak any language other than English in the classroom you can be disciplined up to expulsion (this isn't well-known amongst laymen), but the sentiment is there.
Yes, it would be interesting how people would react if they went to Home Depot in Richmond and were told that plans for their new shed could only be printed out in Chinese.
Or if businesses with Chinese only signs and service started spreading in large numbers toward North Vancouver and West Vancouver, or into the Fraser Valley.
Or if people started showing up at Surrey city council meetings and complaining that the goings-on were not in Punjabi.
Everyone would just remain zen and go along with this natural evolution, right?
The Coast guard is closing one facility in Quebec city all other Coast Guard operations remain status quo Coast Guard officials will be bilingual, says commissioner - Nova Scotia - CBC News
Also whats your definition of rescue ship as all these bases have some manner of boat/s or the point of being called a coast guard station would be rather pointless.
The Coast guard is closing one facility in Quebec city all other Coast Guard operations remain status quo Coast Guard officials will be bilingual, says commissioner - Nova Scotia - CBC News
Also whats your definition of rescue ship as all these bases have some manner of boat/s or the point of being called a coast guard station would be rather pointless.
Still doesn't answer the question of why it sometimes seems such a challenge for the Canadian government to offer services in French to its citizens living in Quebec.
(Note that here we aren't even talking about services in French in other parts of Canada, where they are also supposed to be offering bilingual services as well.)
Still doesn't answer the question of why it sometimes seems such a challenge for the Canadian government to offer services in French to its citizens living in Quebec.
(Note that here we aren't even talking about services in French in other parts of Canada, where they are also supposed to be offering bilingual services as well.)
The Canadian government not serving its Francophone citizens in French in Quebec is a dubious claim and a very rare occurrence at best, particularly when the vast majority of federal workers in Quebec are Francophone.
Canadian government services are supposed to be bilingual in the ROC even though its almost entirely English speaking if the francophone outside Quebec isnt getting served in French in a federal office they have every right to complain to the appropriate authorities .
Of course, there is also a tendency in Quebec public discourse to debate and discuss issues to death, that seems to have been inherited from France.
For sure I can see that. What I wonder about is that the more radical elements (Quebecois 'Jacobin' wing???) may perhaps suggest a more persuasive method to effect their changes and that's by importing the Dr. Guillotin method. For sure now we don't want people to be seen er ..'losing their heads' over these issues. Even Danton tried to reason with Robespierre......;-)....
When a government starts putting in place all manner of laws that dictate what language you can speak, what language public signage must be in , what schools you can send your kids, basically installing a set of laws that artificially props up its own culture by eliminating all others we are dealing with a suspension of civil liberties and violations of human rights, this is what our op is proudly holding up as virtuous attributes to a modern society and something to be vigorously supported?
Quebec if you dont want to be a proud member of Canada? then do us all a favour and get the hell out and dont let the door hit you in the a,,
That's not true. The government isn't forcing you to speak French in your home or in the public. That would be a human rights issue. It's just the institutions that are legally authorized to provide services in French first which is fair because Quebec is a French speaking province. Having English schools and signage in English in other provinces isn't a human rights issue, so why would it apply to Quebec? I think the language laws provide a strong cultural feel for the province.
No, I wouldn't want Quebec to separate, and if they do, it would mean less culture, history and bilingualism in Canada. Remember though if Quebec separates, only a small fraction of land would separate from Canada because almost everything north of the Montreal-Quebec City corridor is owned by the first nations so they can't separate that land from Canada from the rest of Canada.
...... Remember though if Quebec separates, only a small fraction of land would separate from Canada because almost everything north of the Montreal-Quebec City corridor is owned by the first nations so they can't separate that land from Canada from the rest of Canada.
I didn't know that and I bet there's a whole lot of other people don't know that either. I find that very interesting. It sort of puts a whole new twist on things and I wonder if the people who push for separatism give any consideration to that. I wonder how all the First Nations folks who own the land feel about separatism or if it's something that doesn't even come up for consideration for them.
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