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For our company that is visiting from the States, I would like to apologize. It seems like a few people fromthe anglo side of the family have broken into the liquor cabinet tonight and begun spouting inanities about the country.
Also, they seem to have been neglecting their Canadian social sciences homework and are probably spending too much time in front of the TV watching Gene Simmons' Family Jewels and Honey Boo Boo -again.
My position is, either stop receiving equalization payments infinitely year after year, or just leave (you get my vote on that).
And what's the point of all this bilingual policy when hardly anyone outside Quebec speaks or reads French? I suppose more people speak Chinese, Punjabi, or Farsi than French. It is costly and offers little value. Don't get me wrong, I am all for protecting the French language in Quebec, but forcing bilingualism everywhere else is sheer stupidity.
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The corollary would mean abandoning your anglo friends in Quebec like jambo to lives with a lot less English. Not sure most of you would want that.
Why does Canada force a bilingualism on the rest of Canada when hardly any one speaks French outside Quebec? 75 seats in the House of Commons might have something to do with it..
If no one speak French outside Quebec then no one speaks English in Quebec. There are 1 million francophones outside Quebec, and 780,000 anglos in Quebec.
In most of the west it's <1%. For Ontario You're right it's about 2.5%
SK has a french speaking population of 0.5% , AL has 0.7% and BC has 0.5%. Personally I don't think their should be an official language. Many countries do that now.
Not true at all.
Ontario is around 5% francophone.
New Brunswick is around 33%.
PEI and Nova Scotia are around 5%.
Manitoba is around 4%.
Alberta and Saskatchewan are around 2%.
And Quebec is 8% anglo BTW.
Also, the families of those francophones have been in Canada for far longer than those of any people posting here. Unless any of you are aboriginal.
If no one speak French outside Quebec then no one speaks English in Quebec. There are 1 million francophones outside Quebec, and 780,000 anglos in Quebec.
780,000 out of a population of 7.9 milllion is near 10% of the population. 1 million out of a pop of 34 million is about 3%. Not exactly apple to apples.
Actually I've talked to a lot of people about the idea of Cascadia and most of them seem to be at the least open to it, and many of them actually seem to think it's a good idea. There's a pretty big disconnect between Oregon/Washington and 'mainstream America'. One of the main reasons people move to the Northwest is to escape the staunch conservatism of 75% or more of this country. I can't speak for Montana however, I would say most of Montana is too far east to be Cascadian except for the part west of the Continental Divide (known as 'Glacier Country' in some tourist guides).
More of this bizarre "Cascadia" nonsense...
Oregon and Washington aren't any more "disconnected" from the "mainstream" U.S. (whatever "mainstream" entails according to you) than any other blue state in the country. This entire "Cascadia" fantasy (at least on the part of Pac-Northwesterners who would support this movement) is nothing more than pompous grandstanding on the part of resentful leftists who think they're too sophisticated to be citizens of the U.S. It's that simple.
And no, "Cascadia" can keep its nasty hands off of Montana--ALL of it, including "Glacier country."
No self-respecting Montanan would ever be on board with secceeding from the U.S. in favor of being ruled by the urbanites of Washington, Oregon and a former Canadian province. Ridiculous.
Plus, try selling the notion of "Cascadia" to even a slight majority of Idahoans. Yeah right.
It's totally stupid. Canada will lose its critical mass and the collective strength all of its provinces have to offer. Quebec will become more "provincial," and I mean that in the negative sense. There will be NO WINNERS.
780,000 out of a population of 7.9 milllion is near 10% of the population. 1 million out of a pop of 34 million is about 3%. Not exactly apple to apples.
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