“An attack on the English language”: Protests against Quebec's Bill 96 held in Montreal
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2023
- A group of people fighting Quebec's language legislation Bill 96 organized a 10-kilometer rolling procession in Montreal on Sunday to protest the Legault government's language policies.
Bill 96 was passed to help slow the decline of the French language across Quebec, but has made life for English speakers in the province tougher as a result of restrictions placed on communications with the government in languages other than French.
As Global News' Elizabeth Zogalis reports, participants in the weekend protest called the law an "attack on the English language."
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JT won't protest about Quebec's Bill 86.
Even better than this, the Official Languages Act now officially recognizes Bill 101 and Bill 96 thanks to Bill C-13, and the best part is that the Liberals, the Conservatives, the NDP and the Bloc all voted for it!
When will they stop complaining ? Québec wants to remain what it is.
Who?
It's always been lopsided in Canada when it comes to Quebec.
English Canada matters! Quebec needs to treat people equally.
Of course they do, imagine if the equalization payments stopped from the West?
Legally they should. If they wan thr rest of us to keep using French. I'm half French Canadian. And I will NEVER move to Quebec. They have treated others disgustingly. Bill21 then they get all shocked they are short stated. Like baby, you illegally decriminalised against so many ppl. Don't act shocked all the young ppl have moved away. Who wants to live in a such racist and dicrimitory province.
Bruh.. This is like saying white lives matter when George Floyd died
I see every protester is white. Would you like to know why?
French Quebec matters! English Canada needs to treat people equally.
Bruh, just learn French if you live in Québec. And if you don’t want to, move to Ontario. It’s not that complicated.
But you don't get it, Canada is bilingual!
Except when you step out of Quebec of course, then you are expected to speak English only!
But what does bilingual mean in this context? In a very, very large part of Canada, only English is spoken - in other words, if English is officially allowed in Quebec, over time everyone will start to speak English because it will make contact between English-speakers and French-speakers much easier. Whether in business or everyday life. French will no longer be used (or very little), and some of the 80% of Canada's population who speak only English could move to Quebec with absolutely no problem. After all, why not? Quebec could be considered an "English" place for them.
After a while, the French language would be nothing more than a historical symbol of the place.
About "you are expected to speak English only!":
Canada is certainly bilingual, but the groups of people who speak a certain language are more grouped in their regions. In the English-speaking regions of Canada, when I go to the baker's, they say "hello". When I look for a job where I have to interact with the population, I have to do it in English.
And yes, there are also French people in the main English-speaking regions of Canada. And you don't want French to be given as much priority in "Quebec" as English is in the "English-speaking" regions?
The majority of people in English regions speak English. English is spoken in commerce there - why shouldn't that be the case in Quebec?
@BallBouncing While my post was sarcastic and meant to mock the hypocrisy of claiming Canada is bilingual as justification to not learn or speak French in Quebec while the English-speaking provinces make little to no effort to accommodate the francophones, your response hits the nail on the head and is a good overview of why bill 101 and bill 96 are more than justified.
@@BallBouncing And for the record, to make it abundantly clear, I am fully aware that Canada is only bilingual at the federal level and in New Brunswick, while French is the sole official language of Quebec (and English for the rest of the provinces).
If it were to secede, Canada couldn't even have French as being an official language without it sounding like a joke since the French population would almost be instantly be nuked to 0.
Sad really.
So why don't we stop having French as an official language in the rest of the country.
Great idea.
That's really bad! I am from Quebec and moved to BC 20 years ago to learn English. I never lost my first language and I am very proud to speak and both languages. What about you?
@@creative2powerwhat about it? Western provinces don’t have laws dictating what language you’re allowed to use in any way shape or form.
If you can’t see why predominant English speaking people have issue with the way Quebec conducts itself, within the dominion, you’re also part of the problem.
Edit:
I’m from Bc and went through the French immersion system from grade one through to the end. The only things that’s shameful here is letting a bully get away with being a bully, because it’s just always been this way, and the people that think it’s fine.
It's basically not even used anywhere outside Quebec, let's be real. Official 2nd language it is not.
I'd like that.
Quebec should separate. They would be better off and we would be better off too.
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 As a french speaking person I can't believe those laws are being adopted like that. Please don't give up and fight for your rights! You have allies on both sides. Vive le canada :) !
Colonisé? Vive le Canada? Jsp pas trop de II tu parle mais les Franco’s sont fortement pour les mesures pour la protection du français.
Commentaire dégoûtant, totalement ignorant de notre histoire et des enjeux du futur.
Le Canada colonial anglais force les autochtones à apprendre et à parler l’anglais, une langue d’Europe !!
''Our english language is dying'' It must be hard to be the 98% of North America.
In the mid 70s I worked in a mall in a predominantly Anglo Jewish community in Montreal while attending university nearby. We (all employees) we’re told that if we were caught saying Hello before Bonjour to a customer by “the language police” (and yea they existed) we could be fired. Bill 101 had just recently come into power giving French the upper hand. All signs were in big letters in French with (maybe) English below in small print. The French were finally having their say and guess what happened!!!! Businesses moved their head offices out of the province and new grads left because there was no work opportunities. We called it the 401 Exodus (highway from Montreal to Toronto). Some of us went much further west. I was fluently bilingual but my profession was no longer hiring either. Quebec shoots itself in the proverbial foot and then bleeds other provinces, like Alberta, to help fund their social
Programs through transfer payments.
The extremists don't care, they just want to blame their hated Anggies. The more goes wrong, the more they can blame - fundamental Marxist ideology
I was there back then, it wasn’t a good place to live.
White French Canadians where the poorest ethnic group, only second to natives, back when anglos still held hegemony over Quebec. But shhhhh, let's focus on how you are obviously the main victims here.
@@FF-ct5drhalf of my family is French, and they were the epitome of poor, white francophones you describe. Thank the catholic church for that, their insistence on having as many children as possible and the unimportance they placed on education... wonder why they were poor.
@@KRL1999because also the Catholic Church made a deal with the English? All that spoke against the English or the economic suppression were excommunicated and shamed by the church… it was a system of exploitation and colonialism
I guess the government doesn't want the rest of Canada visiting Quebec! 🇨🇦 Come to BC for a fun vacation.🍁
The extremists in Quebec are VERY ethno-nationalist... basically they embrace a "race hatred" that they themselves invented.
Yes, and thankfully the only french you will see is at YVR for the Quebecers to head home.
I don't see what those rules have against visiting Quebec but you can keep those irrational feelings out of Quebec for sure!
@@bryanhm326 lmao
Speak English in an English-speaking country.
But also stop pushing the "universal language" agenda as if it is the most important language in the world.
I left in 1982
And now they're getting to get every last Anglo to leave.
Yes, that's what the extremists wanted
And somehow we've gotten along just fine without you all these years. How shocking.
wow so witty. I'm impressed@@silversnail1413
For all Anglophones in Quebec, this is legitimate. Quebec has been going down a dead-end road for years.
There's nothing more pathetic than language laws, quebec taking another L tbh
I lived there for 9 years. Learned french, was 90% bilingual but still couldn't get a job inspite of doing a legal assistant course in both languages. Need connections to get a job. How sad!
They ask us to learn french, when we do, still we are nowhere in belle province!
That’s true even you speak French there is a discrimination. What’s the use to know or learn French.
its a massive competition, and legault just acts as a catalyst to the discrimination problem.
@@3otabe3There is np discrimination. Keep crying
@@yannislaurin-kamouche this what I experienced, and my opinion, you just mind your own businesses.
@@yannislaurin-kamouche if there is no discrimination how do you explain kemouche the patient last moment before passing away in a hospital and with discrimination?
VERY SAD to see no young people!
The young anglophones left Quebec. Why stay where your not wanted and cannot rise up in society.
Because we need to work our way out of mess our boomers left for us.
The English have plenty of place to speak their language without having to deal with another in north america, let the french have their place in the sun.
English people have lived in Quebec for hundred's of years, passing laws to crush their cultural is wrong. Also Quebec voted to be part of Canada twice so they could get Alberta's oil money. Respecting their local Anglo neighbours is the most basic of expectations that go along with that.
Not when you have to become a Police State with government stooges going around forcing people to speak French and French only signs on their shop windows. English speakers hiding in shadows and whispering is not normal for a modern society in the 21st century.
@@ur-inannak9565 Anglos routinely passed laws to crush French culture, i.e.: the wave of banning or restricting French language in school between the 1860s - 1910s by Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta, PEI, NWT, etc. This had a drastic effect on the French speaking population, as best exemplified by Manitoba going from a French speaking majority to around 4% of French speakers nowadays.
You have lived here for 100s of years by sole virtue of France losing the 7 years war... But yeah, I guess that counts for something. As for you oil money, Alberta was on the receiving end of equalisation payments when the latter were first established.
Tl;dr: Most Anglos are utterly ignorant with regards to Canada's history pertaining to French-English dynamics. You're just playing the victims even though you've always been the oppressor.
@@FF-ct5dr I never claimed we are not the oppressors. Our ways of linguistic hegemony are well established, its not exactly an anomaly in history for a state to promote 1 language over others, hence France speaks French for example. Yet Quebec still signed up for it twice. We on the other hand never did that so it makes no sense to just accept when there are laws against our language.
Theres also the problem of practicality, that globalization is going at full speed and has decided to take English along for the ride. In France they ban the kids from using English slang, but it doesnt stop them and in 50 years it will just be part of the language along with a bunch of verlan. The cultural forces are like a rushing river, you might swim against the stream, you might hold onto a rock, but eventually the river will take you where it wants.
@@ur-inannak9565You talk as if we are repulsed by English, yet we have 11 years of mandatory English classes alongside Canada's highest bilingualism rate. We've done our part and do not have to tolerate people who won't do theirs, that is, monolingual Anglos who think they can live here without speaking a lick of French.
I love when Quebec separatists always use the argument of how French minorities outside Quebec are treated, but yet the same separatists have no problem listening to English songs, using English to travel abroad, using English streaming services, using English hashtags to promote their social media, and speaking English to tourists in places like Montreal and Quebec City. And we’re suppose to be ok with all of that?
"Quebec separatists can speak English!!!"
Huh... Okay?
Happened in wildwood New Jersey once, 2 couples from Quebec checked in at the same hotel. They were so opened and spoke English to us without problems, but when they saw our Quebec license plate, they started glaring at us and never said a word to us during the whole trip.
@@lnconvenientTruthwhat a tragic tale, I sincerely hope you found the strenght to heal the profound emotional wounds you've visibly suffered from.
Well, if Quebec separatists are so influenced by English social media, why should Quebec Anglophones take their talking points seriously? Unless it’s from ones of the older generation then that I can understand, but the people they should be blaming are their Gen Z counterparts and their Internet/social activities. Fix that mistake first and then they could accuse Anglophones for the same thing.
Not sure where you find those separatists nowadays. It was mostly a movement of boomers that is now quietly vanishing along with this cohort. They are reduced to a small club of weirdos clinging to the illusion that this project, from another time, has some relevance with today's problems.
Even Alberta money does not belong in the province of quebec. Why do they deserve equalization payments? Maybe Alberta needs to move to their own currency.
What? That wouldn't solve anything, lol. If Alberta somehow used Alberta bucks then Alberta bucks would be collected and turned into Canadian dollars to be used in Quebec
How does it feel to be discriminated ?
If I live in Japan, I would learn Japanese.
If you live in Canada, you would learn English
@kevintang9913 But Canada is not only english like it or not
@@yannislaurin-kamouche Exactly. We are Bilingual. Always have been, always should be. Not English only, not French only, but both
@@kevintang9913 But ONLY Quebec is bilingual. Everywhere else in the country is Anglo. And Anglos come in refusing to learn French with dreams of turning it into another 100% Anglo province.
@@FrostbitexP Ah yes, the classic "Anglos want to turn Quebec into an Anglo province" argument. It always surprises me that some people still believe this
Visited Quebec two times. Beautiful place but people were quite rude. It was like they got insulted every time I tried to ask for anything in English (I do not speak French). Very different from the way they’re treated elsewhere in Canada. Shame.
The trick is to speak French anyway you can and they will respond in English. Usually works.
I totally understand your point But on the other side of the coin when its a french person not knowing thé English very good we get the same attitude. French people are the one that has to try To speak English to make themself understood but very rare that a English person Will try thé same. English acts like French is the one that has to do it.
@@MsPascalex It's almost like Billions speak English and less than 100 million people speak French.
@@Redact63Lluks dont worry i know
I wasnt complaining or trying To debate
I know English is the universal language
I was just saying that the rudenest come from the other side too even though they know they are in A mostly french province Thats All
@@MsPascalex Yeah Canadians got their reputation of being nice from Alberta...
Québec bashing as usual. Then english canada wonders...
What is missing from this report is that Trudeau's Bill C - 13 Language Law
supports Quebec's Bill 96 .
What kind of federal government writes legislation with section for Quebec and another section for the rest of Canada ?
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Maybe because Quebec is a nation apart of the rest of canada with his own culture.
@@Vallendil Being force fed culture is not wanted or healthy
@@Vallendil Had Italy , France or any other Province in Canada brought in the same legislation ,
the CBC and CTV would be screaming white supremacy .
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@@Vallendil Trudeau 1.0 and 2.0 vision of Canada
- The Laurentian Elites are the ruling class
- They use the rest of Canada for their financial gain *
- Quebec is a Distinct Nation
This is hidden form of Apartheid .
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* Rene Levesque wanted Quebec to separate . But Pierre Trudeau and Paul Desmarais wanted to keep Canada together, so the Laurentian Elites could used the rest of Canada for their financial gain .
So in 1976 , Paul Desmarais helped create the Canada - China Business Council .
As a result , their corporations and Quebec's Pension PLan have billions worth of investments in China .
Which is why Justin is busy brown nosing up to Xi and trying to sell Alberta's oil to China .
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“English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Quebec is, today and forever, a distinct society, free and able to assume control of its destiny and its development.”
-Robert Bourassa, Liberal Premier of Quebec
"this House recognize that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada"
-Québécois nation motion of 2006
Quebec is no more "distinct" than any other part of Canada. The Block should relegated to what they are, a provincial party and booted from the HOC!
Lego won't budge a fraction of a millimeter, and Trudeau is deathly terrified to cross Lego.
trudy is scared of everything.
Who's Lego? MegaBlock's brother?
This is how the Indigenous people felt. But they weren't allowed to speak their languages. Languages matter yes, but learn the language. We also live in a time where cell phones can do a lot of the work for us so translate and figure it out. Ffs.
Bro just compared one of the most spoken language in the world, spoken by historical tyrants and oppressors who've invented laws making it so you couldn't hold political power if you didn't speak their language to cultural genocide victims who got their children forcefully kidnapped and reeducated while having nowhere to go.
English is a Universal language.
But somehow not here in Quebec.
Do you know the meaning of "universal" ? That means everyone on this planet speaks English with no exception. But at the same time, English is not even the most spoken language, so
Well it's spoken on Earth. We can't assume that it is used all over the universe.
Actually it became the most used language in recent years. Chinese was the top language for a long time before that.@@dejavudeux
@@dejavudeuxIt is known as the universal language. You would be shocked at how many Europeans speak English. Indians also. The United States with the 3rd largest population in the world. As the years go on it is growing by leaps and bounds. Huge classes in China and Japan all wanting to learn English. It's time you wake up to the realities of the 21st century.
I did not know about this rally.....we need more and bigger rallies
first I left Qc, once in Toronto I noticed it’s impossible bc of the cost of living, then I left Canada
I hear more and more immigrants telling me that this country is not what they expected. Hard to get a car, hard to get a house, near impossible to get a job that pays without some really good contact.
English does matter.
Quebec is a French province
All this effort to keep a dead language going, pure waste of money
French is one of the fastest-growing and the fifth most spoken language in the world (behind English, Mandarin, Hindi and Spanish), the only language other than English to be spoken on all five continents, the second most-used language in diplomacy after English, and the second most learned foreign language in the world (behind English) and in the United States (behind Spanish), so much for a dead langue!
English language is dying HAHAHAHAHAHAAH just move mofos. You want to enforce English in a French speaking area. Move to the next province.
“Just move” - said by a wealthy privileged person who can “just move” whenever they want.
@@Anne-ot8gq If you can't afford to leave the province, then learning French should be a more affordable option
I left in the 80s and still the same.
Speaked english all my life it be pretty hard to learn french.
Maybe give it a try cause the start of your sentence isn't speaking English properly 😂. You should have started it with 'Have spoken English all my life. . .' not 'Speaked English all my life . . .' What even is that? 😂
Guess what. Give it an hour a day, and you can have conversations (basic ones) in a year and a half. Even sooner if you put in 2+ hours a day.
Also you're not even speaking proper English. What the hell?
Just another divisive law we don’t need and what’s it going to cost us?
Quebec has the legal right to change its laws.
Cut Quebec’s funding
Its laughable they would even try. Your not going to be able to control the way people speak by laws.
Some one should tell quebec to start respecting english becauze weve been respecting french for every now. I am not bilingual but i have famiky from both quebec and ontario... respect is mutual step up or get put down.
The issue is English isn't losing its prominence. I don't like Quebec but I get why they're worried about French. Most of the people complaining about this have no issue with the Canadian government propping up basically dead languages from the Aboriginals but how dare Quebec want to prevent French from getting to that point in their province...
@@CanadianEhHoleyeah, 94% of people in Québec speak French.
Plenty of provinces and territories severely limited or outright banned French from school in the 1860s-1910s, some (i.e.: NWT) going as far as forbidding the use of French in courts of law. If that's respect then I don't want to know what disrespect looks like.
@@FF-ct5dr "Something was done over 100 years ago, including in a territory with a very small population therefore modern actions are warranted because they're just retaliatory."
Stellar thinking.
@@KRL1999 Okay. Why wait until the number plummets to do something about it?
It's like having a bridge collapse and then saying well we didn't do any maintenance work or inspections because it was still standing.
The English language is dying? Doubt that is true. Seeing as it's still the most commonly spoken language in the World I don't see the language dying any time soon. That said, let people speak the language they want. Colonizers (both French and English) did not allow others to speak their languages and they killed off so many indigenous languages. It's hypocritical of Quebec to ban other languages but, rest assured English is not dying. Coming from someone who speaks English as their first language but, was born into a Panjabi speaking, Sikh family who chose to also embrace French. All languages are beautiful. People need to stop being so ugly to one another.
Glad to see you standing up to this tyranny. However, remember this is the french part of Canada you are taking on. If you are not careful they will raise their white flag, go home and ask others to fight on their behalf!
Alberta's tax dollar hard at work again!
How are they going to afford this, without the extra dollars from Alberta?!
Alberta is going to be poor in a few years. Good luck.
@@ShadowHunter31 It won't be poor; get over yourself...
@@ShadowHunter31lol salty frog
When it comes to Quebec, an Albertan almost always mentions Equalization, suggesting that Quebec would be the only beneficiary and Alberta, the only contributing province to the program. An Albertan never considers the billions of dollars in annual subsidies received by his province, to keep its oil industry afloat, according to global fluctuations in fossil fuels. As an example, the federal government's purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline in 2018 and its expansion project are now worth $31 billion in public funds, in the form of grants or loan guarantees. Furthermore, if an Albertan consulted the data from the federal Department of Finance, manager of the federal Equalization program led by Chrystia Freeland, they would see that all territories and provinces, including Alberta, are beneficiaries of Equalization for financial year 2022-2023.
The population of Quebec being almost double that of Alberta, its contribution to federal finances is proportional there of course and even greater than that of Alberta. Equalization was established by the federal government in 1957 to ensure all Canadians have a roughly equivalent standard of living. Of the $99.4 billion in the program for the fiscal year 2024-2025, Quebec and Ontario, the most populous provinces of the country, monopolize 56% of the amount, while 8,24% of the amount goes to Alberta, according to ministry forecasts federal finances.
@@capricornebete-a-cornes8671 Hahaha, good one. Nextyou are going to try to convince us that the tooth fairy will be here soon.
qebec has been pandered to, mollycoddled and it has to stop. Why out of 9 Supreme court judges does there have to be 3 from qebec? Why do they have a say in how Alberta spends money ENOUGH. qebec has had referendums concerning departure from Canada, how about us Canadians having a referendum to remove the sponging qebec!
Bonjour / Hi / Ney Ho / Chào, if you force me to speak in French, I won’t speak to people at shopping centre anymore, it’s over, forever. Merci / thanks / thank you / 多謝 / Cám Ơn.
I grew up in Montreal, but I've learned French without speaking.
Poon gnôg / don nhà / déménager / move out.
It's the French language that is dying, Bill 96, like Bill 101 is a discriminatory law futilely trying to keep it alive. Francophones see language as a competition that they are losing so they keep changing the rules.
Before bill 101, Montreal was full of monolingual anglos and 90% of immigrants only learned English, now over 80% percent of immigrants and two thirds of anglos in Montreal are able to speak French, as well as 94% of Quebec's overall population, so clearly the laws have been doing their job. In fact, Bill 101 was so successful and influential that other nations took inspiration from it to protect their own langue, such as Catalonia, the Baltic states and Wales.
Si vous habitez là-bas, apprenez la langue et c'est tout
L'hypocrisie des Canadians ne connaitra donc jamais aucune limite. Les anglophones viennent a Montréal (métropole francophone du Québec) et imposent leur langue partout, tandis qu'ailleur dans les autres provinces les francophones se font figurativement cracher au visage et ils ont le culot de se plaindre d'une loi minimaliste !!! 350 ans d'assimilation et ça continue.
Ils ont oublié que les leurs pendaient les notres et maintenant ça braille car ils doivent aligner 2 mots en français.. pauvres eux autres xD
"We need to somehow re-animate Napoleon and push these pesky Anglophones out of Quebec once and for all!" -Legault
Legault prime minister of pole holes in roads, many years waiting list to get a family doctors, more centralized bureaucratic government, a 60 hours outage power last year, high taxes.
Legault thinks all companies are like Hydro should be only in French but, those companies in order to be competitive must use English, M. Legault even suggested to people to speak French at home to protect French 😂 what else? Can you imagine this. The only thing remaining is tape people to make sure they speak the right language.
International Mother Language Day is a global observance held annually on February 21st. It was proclaimed by UNESCO in 1999 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and to raise awareness of the importance of preserving and promoting mother languages worldwide. The day commemorates the 1952 Bengali Language Movement in Bangladesh, where students protested for the recognition of their mother language, Bangla, as one of the official languages of Pakistan. Tragically, several students were killed during the protest, and this event became a symbol of language rights and cultural identity. International Mother Language Day celebrates linguistic diversity and encourages people to celebrate their mother languages as an essential part of their identity and heritage.
The double standard hypocrites really need to calm the f*** down. My wife's family is from Quebec. Her extended family is split on issues like this. I took note of who was for and who was against. The militant ones are all, as you'd expect, artists and weirdos. This is but one issue for them. They enjoy the massive transfer payments, arts funding and Trudeau favouritism that comes with being in Quebec. The province has become a basement suite step child, doing nothing but complaining about their lot in life.
Shouldn't these people just move to a place where they are more accepted? What (I think) these people don't understand is that Quebec wants to be treated like a country, and the locals will do anything to maintain something that distinguishes them from the rest of Canada, that being the french language. Sure, the Anglophones are free to keep Quebec as a province, but they should at least try to respect its customs.
Edit: I understand why English Speakers are frustrated about this law, but this is what they want. Plus, I don't think these protests would convince the local government. If the western provinces could not even convince the Canadian Government to rethink about their plans, I don't think it would apply to this province as well.
The Canadian government has its majority of votes in Quebec. The PM is a quebecor so he had changed the constitution of Canada under our noses, see the lecture of Bill 96 and Me Bergman. His father another cheater, did the same. I am thinking Canada should separate, Quebec should fund the transfer of englsih resources, including compensating in one large lump sum the people that were injured severely in automobile accidents. They shall relinquish the english that made prosperity, Montreal is annexed and given to Canada as most of its business prosperity was from the English speaking community. Quebec them makes its own currency its own bills.
If all of canada was french except one province who was english, I don't see how that province making laws to protect their language would be a bad thing. I think you guys (english speakers) would agree that you would defend your language and want to keep it in services etc..
There are Italians, Greeks, Germans...etc etc etc that have been here for several generations.....and they still speak their mother tong language. Quebec, as a society, have always had a significant number of people who are paranoid and a major inferiority complex....they happen to be in power again. They are basically telling French Quebecers that they are too dumb to teach their kids their own language, so the government will do it for you. I've lived in Quebec all my life, over 55 years and always found this to be idiotic.
@@ecall1771 It's not about parents not being able to teach french to their children.. it's about grown people having no respect as you just shown
I don't go around the rest of the world or provinces in this case saying my language is as important as theirs and want my language to be treated equally in services. I respect the way things are in other places and value their culture.
@@dienatan I was born here and my mother tong and education are french and I stand by what I say. We try to be more french than the French...this actually think Quebec's fear of language to be comical as well.
@@ecall1771 It is comical indeed, rationally comical I must add and that the French may not feel an identity to their language as much as Quebec is irrelevant here imo.
theres more english in canada its are frist language for every canadian and should be for quebec as well its not even real french ask any real french person from france
lol.. not even real french xD cmon now.
There is more French in Quebec so the anglos and allos should speak it as well, and we'll start speaking real French from France when the anglos start speaking real English from England
"language-cleansing"?????
So move out of Quebec - of course you will need to speak punjabi to live anywhere else in canada!
The vast majority of people cant just randomly move whenever they want.
The only thing missing in these protests, is the very thing that francophone Quebecers pay attention to; the Quebec flag. You are all Quebecers and that flag belongs to you too. By displaying it at your protests, you will create a dissonance that cannot be ignored.
English is a legal language. Just speak it.
Quebec is a Police State who rules by fear. English speakers hiding in the shadows whispering in fear of being caught.
Then try and Separate, Northern Quebec Inuit will stay in Canada with huge swaths of indigenous land with them. Also areas of Montreal will stay within Canada. There will be no negotiations without a strip of land connecting Canada to the Maritimes. I think French Quebecers will be shocked with what little land that will be left.
What makes you think Maritimes would stay? If there's one region that has been on the decline since joining Canada, it's them! Also, how about you go to Montreal downtown and observe how hard it is to get service in French. See how easy it is to bust your police state narrative? Clearly, you never set a foot there.
@@philippebarillecavalier9275 You are so out of touch with reality. Why don't you ask anyone from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick or Newfoundland and Labrador. They are staunch Canadians. Of course westerners can relate to the maritimes. The two biggest pigs at the trough Ontario and Quebec leaving only a few scraps for the rest of the country. Fortunately for BC, they have forestry, fishing and mining. Alberta Oil and Gas, and farming. Saskatchewan has half of all arable land in Canada with huge crop production. Oh, it's really hard to get services in French in Montreal. Don't make me laugh. The nightmare scenario that the First Nations people of Canada will bring down on any attempt of French Quebecers to separate will be swift and decisive. Their language and their land and rights taken away from them. But it's okay for French Quebecers to do the same. Then you have the English Quebecers who are getting fed up with all the draconian Police State Quebec fascist government laws. How much longer before the United Nations starts to look into this racist regime. The fight has just begun, and your not going to like it.
@@marklelonde6684 @marklelonde6684 I don't need to ask anyone from Atlantic Canada, I've been living there for eight years, observing that the region was once prosperous and had been progressively reduced to a backwater outpost. I don't care how one is proud to be Canadian. The reality is that connections to the rest of the country are in name only.
The french colony had excellent relations with first nations and treated them as equals. It is the English who evicted them with little consideration, notably in the West. Go study some history, and perhaps also learn what fascism actually is.
@@philippebarillecavalier9275 I'll go toe to toe with you on Canadian history anytime. Since you lived there. Ask your friends how many maritimers would separate from Canada. I already know the answer. Next to none! Yes back in the Colonial days and the French and Indian Wars they got a long for a time with the French promising land. The cozy friendship didn't last long. Fast forward to today and Quebec Indigenous representives don't like Bill 21 or 69. But you can read all about that yourself.
@@marklelonde6684 Explain treaties such as La Paix des braves.
Je pense que le seul moment où la communauté anglophone et francophone du Québec va s'entendre sera dans un Québec indépendant. Puisqu'ils seront considéré comme une minorité et non une majorite
IMHO, when a language needs protection by law, it has lost already. A language is by the people, not by court.
In Switzerland they have 4 languages, but no law is necessary for them.
Why in Quebec?
Simple. Because Switzerland is not surrounded by a single language.
Many laws and policies were made in English Canada, throughout the previous century, to eliminate the French language. And now the same group has issues with laws to protect that language? Small minds.
@@philippebarillecavalier9275 Yes. Switzerland is not surrounded by a single language but each corner of Switzerland is surrounded by the most common language spoken. If you're near the southern part, they speak Italian because it's near Italy. Western part? They speak French because they're next to France.
Quebec is not only surrounded by 1 single language, it's surrounded by the most dominant language in the world. You can go to a small town in the middle of nowhere and find at least 1 person who speaks English well enough to have a bit of a conversation. I hated learning French in school but I don't mind them attempting to save their culture. They won't really win, they cannot compete against a sort of 'domesticated globalization', but I understand the effort.
Most of the people complaining about this are the same people who applaud the federal government paying money into trying to salvage Aboriginal languages. French globally will never get to that stage but why let French in Quebec even approach that decline?
Switzerland does have pretty complex language laws actually. Don't talk about something when you don't know anything about the subject.
@@Leopold_van_Aubel when I was living there I never was confronted with a language law like in Quebec. Sure the kids have to learn at least one more language in school. But, working with people in German or French speaking areas was never a problem. Now law forced us to use French in the Romandie.
Quebec is insane. hardly anyone speaks french in canada and if they do it's a second language. They always have to segregate which makes me want to speak french even less
How is Quebec insane for trying to protect french when, as you said: ''hardly anyone speaks french in canada and if they do it's a second language''.
Perhaps if English Canada didn't actively make laws and policies in the twentieth century to wipe out the French language, it would be different???
“I just feel that our english language is dying”
I can’t even remember the last time i got served in french in Montréal.
McGill University.
Concordia University.
Anglophone hospitals.
English is so dying! (sarcasm)
@@philippebarillecavalier9275 It's also the most commonly spoken language in the world.
These are the same protestors that praise the Canadian government for funding the revival of Aboriginal languages. These people like to keep the "other" as a sort of museum piece. It remains in existence, but basically out of sight and mind... but still around, because they're so totally progressive and welcoming.
Just learn french or live somewhere else in canada, how is that so difficult ahah
(you can live here while not knowing french too that's cool there is plenty jobs for you, just less legal possibilities wich doesn't matter because someone who only speaks french has less possibilities in the rest of the canada as well. There in no laws elsewhere because there is no need to.)
Some Anglophones did learn French, but they don’t wanna speak.
French is the ''Great North American Linguistik Compromise'' of North America we made....am not necessarily in favor of laws but alternatives to learn & incentives for French....am bilingual like our Prime Minister is Legault...
How about Spanish? There is over 127 million people in Mexico and 8.5 million in Quebec. Also millions more Latinos in the United States. French in North America is a drop in the bucket. The cry and squawk very loud making themselves heard but they are but a very small fraction of North America. As the years and decades go on they will fight, cry, and moan clinging to their dying language. They will resist the change, and become an anomaly but eventually they will be swept up in the inevitable change of the 21st century.
@@marklelonde6684 My neighbors are from Mexico and during the past 7 years have learned some ''Spanish'' and can manage a discussion albeit am not perfectly fluent like French & English....French got it's beauty especially in comedy here in Quebec as do some Rock & Roll Comedy in French......Let us make an effort Mark ;0) Love ya citizen !
@adrianhdragon718 I am all for people speaking what they want. If the Italians in Toronto want to speak Italian and the Jewish in Montreal want to speak Hebrew, let them. Freedom, the right to choose. Not forced upon by governments and fined if you don't have French Only, or the biggest letters, with only English or Chinese, etc, in very small letters below. That's a heavy handed Police State.
If your not happy to live in french just move.
Anglophone here:
Learn French. Quebec has every right to defend and preserve its culture.
« Québec’s anti-English laws are abusive, discriminatory and unjust enough! » … oh, you mean like the laws imposed on French speaking Quebecois by the English speaking minority in power during the 17th and 18th centuries were discriminatory against French speaking majority in Quebec? Where they attempted to make it « FORBIDDEN » to speak French… If you don’t want to speak French this country is enormous, and has other provinces where your majority English speakers will welcome you with open arms 🤗 GO LIVE IN ONTARIO! GO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA! Or in Westmount … your little English speaking stronghold in Montreal … For years the French speaking Quebecois had to tolerate the oppression of an English speaking minority, who’s goal (historical fact) was to completely ERASE the French language from the province of Quebec. Allez-vous-en! Dégagez! Québec Libre! Au moins linguistiquement…c’est tout ce qu’on demande! Free Quebec! At least linguistically, that’s all we ask!!
English has evolved. Yes it's 40 to 45 percent French. No danger to the French language. I
English isn't German here it's more French.. not really anglo is it.
English language ❤
Yeah well maybe Quebec could separate and take all of their debt, that way we don't have to put up with their nonsense anymore.
funny because quebec would be better off economically... imagine all the taxes on every ships passing trough St-Lawrence river...
@@Vallendil Quebec would just run bigger deficits. An increase in tax revenue does not make you financially smarter.
@@CanadianEhHole taxings goods entering your country waters is very lucrative.. ask panama
@@Vallendil Yes, I know about tariffs. Again, an increase in tax revenue does not make you financially smarter.
Quebec spends way more than what they rake in. Do you think their revenue would increase but they wouldn't also increase their spending just as much (if not more)?
They already don't practice fiscal responsibility. An increase in income will not cause that without a change to the incentive structure in politics.
Quebec should have left Canada long time ago
The British should have sent the French home when they won the war
@@O6i No, not like that. I want to see a Republique du Quebec. A separate country. That would solve a lot of problems in Canada!
@@SUlutas no because then canada would have to go to war with the frenchies to reclaim their land in the name if the king
The French governments have done this for centuries. Did anyone knew that 40% of France used to speak German? The French rooted out six different languages. In fact many people sent to Canada came because of higher pay and because Paris wanted those "not so French speaking people gone" from the "mainland". Fun fact: Corsica is considering splitting away from France due to French reeducation and loosing of Corsac language and culture!
There was virtually no immigration from France to what is now Canada following the 7 years war, not to mention Canada didn't even exist back then (it was Britain proper). Did you learn about history from the back of a cereal box... ?
They won't talk about that. It kills their "English colonizers" talking point.
You do know that the native languages of Scotland, Wales and Ireland basically met the same fate because of England forcing English on them, right?
You are in a FRENCH SPEAKING PROVINCE. English instruction education should be prohibited. If you are in Quebec speak FRENCH.
It's nothing new America and Canadians make fun of the English language
I'm a native English speaker in fact I am English 🏴, and I went to the USA and hardly anyone could understand me 😂. I could understand every word they said yet they found understanding me extremely difficult and I have a clear southern English 🏴 accent I was accused of being from New Zealand 😂. I'm sure it would be the same in Canada. So even English speakers can't seem to understand each other 🤦😂.
The French language is dying in areas of Ontario with lots of francophones. I can see why many Quebecers don't want to go down the same road.
All French language should be scrapped from the rest of Canada! It cost millions to have this dual language. Are they crazy? Just live together instead of creating separation.
Lmao no one outside Quebec really speaks French. Thats why Quebec is the way it is. If Canada TRULY was "dual language" They would have no problems with people coming in because they would be able to use English AND French. But people just want to turn Quebec into another Anglo province.
Not French nor English are my first languages. I speak half a dozen of other languages, but French. I lived in Ontario. Now I live in Quebec. I have applied for French classes and have been refused. Its impossible to get Quebec Health Insurance Card because I don't speak French. Here there is no service in English. Services online only. I have sent an email in French, but still got nothing. I received a letter in French , translated it and sent every possible papers copies. Still nothing. I don't know where else I can apply. Wherever I live I am still Canadian for almost 40 years.
Sorry to hear that. The "nationalists" in Quebec are into examining names to see if they sound French enough or not.
Go to the West!!!
Then you got a truly Canadian experience in Quebec: profound mediocrity in public services! I recall years ago asking for a friend (foreigner, would be immigrant) for information on French classes. They just refused to give me any information! It's a secret.
Stirring the pot much????
When Canadians come here they are shocked most Europeans know at least 3 languages. Maybe Anglo-Saxon have greater difficulty learning a simple language like French.
Europeans are too conceited to realize it's because you live a short distance from another. Of course you know multiple languages, you either have multiple established languages (ie. Switzerland) or you share a border with multiple other language speaking nations (ie. France). Notice how most Englishmen only speak English. There's no need for them to learn Welsh or Irish, so they don't. Canadians also learn the most common language on the planet, hence why they don't feel the need to learn another. Imagine being able to go almost anywhere on the planet and having at least 1 person in a small town speak the same language as you. That's how incredibly common English is.
Canada is the 2nd biggest country in the world, most of it uninhabited. Most Canadians have never even set foot in Quebec. The only country they border also speaks English... there is no need for Canadians to learn a different language if they aren't from immigrant parents. It's great to learn another language but to pretend it's even close to the same situation as Europe is ignorant. I can drive 10 hours from where I live and still be in the same province. You can drive 10 hours in certain US states and still be in the same state. I can drive from Portugal to France in less time than that. I can drive from France past 4 other countries in that same amount of time.
French-speaking Quebec had never existed as it was born from the defeat of the French who lost everything with the suicidal Napoleon.
Now they don't want to understand each other.
Va apprendre l'histoire du Canada avant de dire n'importe quoi
@@nicolasg.514 Napoleon lost the most important wars.
In the Americas it lost in Guinea and Canada.
In Europe he lost in the Peninsula and in Russia.
He was a suicidal madman who almost drove the French to instinct.
Ok, reed the history.
@@yourisenothingbutdevils5119
Tu es vraiment ridicule, la nouvelle france fut cèdé au britanique en 1763... et Bonaparte est née en 1769 👏👏👏
Bravo champion, retourne apprendre l'histoire 🤣
@@nicolasg.514 In Canadian history, the French were defeated but the English allowed them to remain without being expelled, not like the US did with the Spanish in North America.
@@yourisenothingbutdevils5119
Tu as toujours pas vu le côté illogique et faux de tes premiers commentaires le cave 🤣
Fear.
It is fear of learning a new language and being ridiculed for not being able to learn it well.
We must defeat that fear.
I speak English, Spanish, Danish and a little French. It's not fear as most do not need to speak french as the majority of Canadian speak English. Learn to speak Cree. All my french Canadian friends speak English. Only person i know that has difficulty is fresh off the boat from japan and i try my best with the smattering of Japanese i know.
You didn’t complain when they cancelled headscarves though. Discrimination feels a bit different when it’s directed at you, doesn’t it. Zero sympathy here.
Are we legally supposed to recognize two official languages in this country? Then we should!
Aaaaa poor little thing.go see how french speaking canadian do in other province,
j'aime et respecte la langue française, mais j'aime aussi la langue anglais. Ce projet de loi 96 est un symbole de discrimination. Le Canada est un pays bilingue. Tous les Canadiens devraient avoir le droit et la liberté de choisir la langue qu'ils préfèrent parler, quelle que soit la province dans laquelle ils vivent.
Si seulement ils se rendaient compte que le fait d'être une province bilingue ouvrirait plus de portes au commerce.
le quebec n'est pas une provinve bilingue et le français est la seule langue officielle.
@@Vallendil Le Canada est un pays avec deux langues officielles. Si le Québec veut avoir une seule langue officielle, alors cesse de faire partie du Canada.
@@CML77777 la seule province a avoir l'anglais et le francais comme langue officielle est le nouveau-brunswick... a part du quebec tous les autres provinces ont seulement l'anglais comme langue officielle. un peu d'hypocrisie?
Le " Canada " est un résidu administratif de la colonisation anglaise de l'Amérique du Nord. Ce n'est pas une nation. Je ris toujours de voir des Québécois se sentir attaché à cet État qui n'a jamais fait rien d'autre que de les traiter comme des morceaux de caca à extirper.
legault my anglo
Quebec is only province who doesn’t use two languages. Stop wasting universal but in Quebec it’s arret!! Quebec wanted to be separate during Jean cretian so with their laws they should separate and build a wall around Quebec and see what happens. Division is the game played by politicians as we have seen with liberals.
La seule province officiellement bilingue est le Nouveau-Brunswick. Toutes les provinces à l'exception du Québec et du Nouveau-Brunswick ont l'anglais comme seule langue officielle. Va essayer d'obtenir des services provinciaux et municipaux en Alberta...
Some how Canada operates on medevil laws. Never forget 1066 I guess.
God bless Quebecois.
God bless Canada.
Love from Hong Kong. ❤😅👍
Free quebec
Lol wut
@@frakismaximus3052 free quebec 😂
First step to.....yes, fascism.
😂😂😂😂
let's hope,Im tired of living in pakistan
Bilingualism is the best option.
The rest of Canada isnt Bilingual, so why should Quebec be.
French channels candidates for government and it helps you gossip about others in secret.?
FASCISM IN THE NAME OF PROTECTING french LANGUAGE!
TON COMMENTAIRE EST ABSURDE
What ever Quebec does to hurt the English language should be done in the rest of Canada to limit French in all the other provinces and territories. We really don’t need French in English Canada and it’s waaaY over due that we shlould push back. If English Quebecers feel threatened they will be welcomed in all the other provinces.
it's almost like Quebec should be his own country...
The French here in quebec need to be reeducated. English is 40 percent French. English is no threat to the French language.bthis bill is justvto get rid of English period. French isnt dying. Never way. Jusy bad politics.
Le français a le droit d'être défendu au Québec
By attacking others?? Are you member of Quebecs terrorist organization the flq?
But why to this extent? Like it or not, Anglophones played a great part in building Quebec. They should be allowed minimal rights. This is childish divisiveness ... garbage over catholic/protestant , french/English... we have much bigger problems
@@frakismaximus3052 funny how you respond to him in english xD
@@VallendilIn the comments of an English video... imagine that.