Utter nonsense. That is such a completely indefensible position, I have serious doubts about your sanity.
Grow up and don't insult people.
Utter nonsense. That is such a completely indefensible position, I have serious doubts about your sanity.
What language cops? You mean an overblown fake controversy over a few cases which led to nothing but a slight amendment to official language laws to clarify things
Yes obviously stating you're writing bullshit means I'm repeating what an old antisemite ultranationalist wrote.
You know for all your bullshit complaining, you've obviously never been here,
Also you should probably educate yourself: it took until the 80s for french majority areas in Ontario to get french public education. By comparison, we not only have english public education, but the Quebec department of education partially cofunds italian, greek and jewish private schools without blinking.
Do I have to remind you regulation 17? From 1912 to the 80s French was forbidden in Ontario schools. Nothing of the sort ever happened in Quebec. So get off your horse, it's far too high for you
Also kindly stop calling it a british liberation. The only liberation in this period involved a starry flag
I suspect you're from Ontario. A vague doubt
some of the most stable african countries were french colonies: I suspect you really have no clue what you're saying
The maritimes have always received equalization payments. Equalization payments were introduced to help the maritimes in the first place. The system only dates from 1957.
And yet in South Africa, the English language needs "language cops". I wonder why.
The idea of official languages is one that is pretty uniform in most of the country. You don't see the Swiss complaining about translation costs between German, French, Italian, and Romansh now, do you?
Well Arcaeo he does have a point I Mean what he says sounds pretty convincing so it really just BS, or did you not read all his quotes, because from what I see you only take down certain phrases of Boyds but leave out others...???? Just would appreciate a clarification....Yes, of course, I totally want to hear what your friend Danny has to say about people who don't exist, for a storm in a teacup. You also are unaware of what Bill 101 says apparently. Also Quebec education has yet to forbid english in classrooms, or anything of the sort. If anything it's always done quite fine being polyglot. But of course it's not enough for you.
Finally, Manitoba, like Quebec, is one of the five provinces equalization payments are based on, and like Quebec it has almost always been a recipient.
The rest, I'll chalk up as paranoid ramblings; I forgot that it was also common among the annoyingly monolingual anglos of the city. I'll therefore just put you on ignore and be a traitorous franglais.![]()
Actually, that's a pretty compelling argument, but one that falls down on closer examination.
. Once they were freed from the oppressive and centralized rule from Paris and given self-governance, they began to thrive as a colony.
I have to point out, sir, that Quebec was not given self-government after the Treaty of Paris. One of the reasons Americans opposed the Quebec Act was because it extended the arbitrary, oppressive, and centralized rule of London into lands they hoped to settle.
Yet your counter which you claim beats it falls apart when you remember that said Francophone nations are mostly in Africa which is a lot further from Canada than Mexico or Cuba are from the US
I don't know Canadian history that well but could there have been a possibility of Quebec, following the 1869 example of Newfoundland, rejecting membership in the Canadian Confederation?
This rejection kept Newfoundland from being a part of Canada and led, before World War One, to Newfoundland becoming a British Dominion equal to Canada, that is being essentially self-governing, equal to and totally independent of Canada.
The Great Depression in the 1930s led to an economically hard-hit Newfoundland giving up its Dominion status and reverting to being a British colony.
It was only in 1949 that Newfoundland joined the Confederation and became a part of Canada.
Perhaps Quebec could have followed the same initial path as Newfoundland and, instead of joining or rejoining the Canadian Confederation, could have kept its own Dominion status which would have eventually led to full independence.
But I just don't think giving the mindset of the 1860s (British, Anglophone Canada as well as French-speaking Canada) that Quebec had a free choice (or would have wanted a choice at that time for that matter) in not becoming a part of the Canadian Confederation.
New France was growing and by the time of the American revolution, Quebec, under its pre-loyalist settlement borders, had gone up to almost 300k, well over 3/4 of it french, also Quebec is 90% French, clearly an amazing failure.
And to the Bombadier thing, that seems more like the bigger corporation getting it not the Francophones getting it.
Yeah, but look at how controlling Quebec is with regards to anything English; be it Law 101 or deliberately limiting funding and the number of English schools in the province.