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Albertan's don't have "beef with Canada" we hate the direction that Quebec has taken us to satisfy their own selfish needs. French this, French in places where French has nothing to do with anything, that and the usual threat of independence has left us as our own island with a federal government that panders to Quebec at the expense of every other province not called Ontario. Bilingual nonsense makes it so that Quebecers are preferred for the important government positions and get to tip the scales in their favor. Instead of a thank you we get a "f*** you". We are tired of paying Quebec's bills only to be told to go to hell. Let's be honest, French is a declining regional language and we are tired of paying for it, and tired of Quebec holding the reigns in Canada while scoffing at the rest of us and laughing about when you'll finally secede to create your French ethno-homeland. Our independence movement is different than yours. It isn't based on ethno-nationalism but instead on a version of Canada that politicians especially in Quebec and their panderers in Ontario have foregone in order to keep Quebec satiated. Sorry for the long paragraph but I can tell by your consistent pro-French-never-apologize styled comments that you are one of the guys doing this. You are tearing Canada apart and can't even take responsibility for that. People are getting more and more sick of it. Do us all a favour and either just go independent or drop the act.
Albertan's don't have "beef with Canada" we hate the direction that Quebec has taken us to satisfy their own selfish needs. French this, French in places where French has nothing to do with anything, that and the usual threat of independence has left us as our own island with a federal government that panders to Quebec at the expense of every other province not called Ontario. Bilingual nonsense makes it so that Quebecers are preferred for the important government positions and get to tip the scales in their favor. Instead of a thank you we get a "f*** you". We are tired of paying Quebec's bills only to be told to go to hell. Let's be honest, French is a declining regional language and we are tired of paying for it, and tired of Quebec holding the reigns in Canada while scoffing at the rest of us and laughing about when you'll finally secede to create your French ethno-homeland. Our independence movement is different than yours. It isn't based on ethno-nationalism but instead on a version of Canada that politicians especially in Quebec and their panderers in Ontario have foregone in order to keep Quebec satiated. Sorry for the long paragraph but I can tell by your consistent pro-French-never-apologize styled comments that you are one of the guys doing this. You are tearing Canada apart and can't even take responsibility for that. People are getting more and more sick of it. Do us all a favour and either just go independent or drop the act.
Not all of us wanted this that we see today. If I could I would reverse the 1995 referendum vote I submitted. We were told that a non vote would lead ourselves towards a new and better Canada with augmented inclusivity. I am sorry that you feel we have interefered in the governance of Alberta. If I can change this I would.
As for French declining, first of all 'French' if you can call it that is restricted to Quebec which wants to operate as it's own country so what's the point of that?
Also the 'French' they speak isn't truly French but more akin to a dialect of it called joual. I would know, I grew up in Montreal you can't understand anything peppers are saying. It doesn't even sound like actual French. Sadly, people from France can barely understand Qubecios and look down on them with shame and embarrassment.
In Quebec the joual speakers are working class people and if you want to get anywhere in life you still need to learn English. So English is the language of modernity and the language of advancement. The government there has tried to force joual on everyone but have failed to elevate this dialect above the language of the uneducated and disadvantaged.
On the ground French is pointless in Canada unless you are going to be doing blue collar work with peasoupers in rural Quebec. Stuff about French in New Brunswick and other provinces is completely exaggerated and languages like Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic are much more important in Canada than Quebec 'French'. Trust me, I'm from Quebec and am very familiar with this stuff.
If even Acajack cant be baited into a half dozen replies on this topic then I'd say they both laid it too thick.
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