Bill 96: What to expect when accessing English services in Quebec as new language law takes effect
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2023
- Quebec’s language law reform, Bill 96, is continuing to draw criticism and legal challenges from the province’s English community as more of its provisions came into effect on Thursday - exactly one year after it received royal assent.
Bill 96 was passed to help slow the decline of the French language across Quebec but is making life for English speakers tougher as a result of restrictions placed on communications with the provincial government in languages other than French.
Dan Spector reports.
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I guess we can now pass a law banning French outside of Quebec and we can ship all our bilingual traffic signs to Montreal.
Canada already did that years ago that's why winnipeg is english
@@RedSamurai1917not as lame as Quebec
That will be a problem for us New Brunswickers 😂
@@naturadventur7425 Quebec’s politics are stupid, but the people and actual culture and history are great.
@@dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621 you are right, all the nice Acadian's would have to move to Quebec to see a French sign..... ce n'est pas possible
I'm French, from Quebec and I find this law so damn stupid. Seriously a step in the wrong direction. This is not how you protect a language, it only alienates people.
you are not wrong.
Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French.
@@alvarovasquez3687 you said that already
@@alvarovasquez3687 look i wish i did not live here but honestly other then learning french(which i am just pointing out because i know you will point that out as an option) if i move out i will be homeless. so its learn french and live here. dont learn french and live here or move somewhere else and be homeless and if i could move out and not be homless i would.
Colonisé tu es. Bon raisonnement, pourquoi se questionner longuement et intelligemment quand on peut seulement écouter papa Canada et simplement dire que ca fait de la chicane donc il faut pas faire de loi. Donc, aucune loin, pas de chicane, le Français continu a baisser, baisser et baisser mais bon! tout le bagade culturel, historique et social qu'elle contien cette langue ce n'est pas grave qde la perdre car vouloir la protéger ca fait des chicanes... Donc, continu comme ca a écouter papa Canada, perdurer le Statu quo et en venir à perdre la langue parce que, la chicane c'est mal.
p.s. Je t'invite à aller lire la définition d'aliénation.
Justin Trudeau's Canada: Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others.
If this is the cost of maintaining French, is French really worth maintaining?
Yes, why not? Any country tends to want to maintain its language even if it is not that profitable in monetary terms.
@@Humanophage shouldn’t language be organic 🤷🏽♂️you wouldn’t need that much government interference if that was the natural people’s choice language
@@Mark-oo1vo It will be the natural choice of people when that government intervention is implemented. It's a basic function of the government to protect the borders and the nation. Canada is failing at immigration control, so more local governments need to step in.
@@Humanophage policing the menus of restaurants and movies/television is the will of the people? Sure …🙄
@@Mark-oo1vo Yes, policing the language in movies and television is a normal part of what any country does.
Oh Quebec, your arrogance knows no bounds.
How is this arrogance? 😂
You learn their language
Il n’y a aucune arrogance. L’arrogance c’est de croire que tout le monde doit pouvoir communiquer en Anglais y compris au Québec alors qu’ailleurs on doit parler uniquement en Anglais. C’est ça l’arrogance.
@@walideg5304 So it's arrogance if you believe that everyone should be speak English, but it's not arrogance if everyone should speak French. Got it. Thanks for helping me out on this one. I was a little confused.
I called a school to sign up for French classes but they couldn’t understand me because they only spoke French. Now here is the logical reasoning question, how do I learn French if NOBODY SPEAKS ENGLISH.
This was my biggest problem with learning French in school. The insistence on speaking French when my question is about not being able to speak French. My teachers just put me in the back of class and never gave me homework. Just accepted I'd get an F.
I feel you. CAQ is an insecure party and wants to divide quebecoise. Some racist ignorants francophones are becoming more arrogant when this party won the seat.
😂😂😂😂
It's easy. You can study a useful language like spanish. Instead of useless french dialect 😂
I applied for French course over 2 years ago. I got one telephone interview, and that was it. Now I cannot login in my application anymore.
What a pharce.
This speaks to how useless our “Bill of Rights” is. The notwithstanding clause means politicians can roll over human rights anytime they want. What a mistake it was putting that in.
The human right to speak my mother tongue on my land without my region being overwhelmed by English-speaking foreigners seems important to me too
@@elios4592 stfu
My first language is French, and there's absolutely no risk for the French language in Quebec.
You're part of the problem
@@elios4592you mean you speak the native language or the language of the colonizer who now doesn't what to be colonized themselves. Ohhh the irony.
And the legacy of Pierre Trudeau lives on.
@@elios4592 please elaborate on how anyone is stopping you from speaking french whenever and wherever you want? are there english language police telling you you can't choose a french school for your kids? oh right there isn't, there's only the french language police who will deny people the right to go to an english language school. is there an english language police that will force you business to have a sign in english? oh right there isn't, there's only the french language police who will force your sign to be in french.
your reasoning is the classic racist reasoning of i want my right to oppress other people protected because i feel i'm superior and deserve to be able to suppress other people however i want. your thinly veiled excuse is language.
Ever since I left Quebec for Ontario 15 years ago my life is 110 percent better than ever
lucky you. i sadly do not have that option.
Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French.
I don't think about that anymore I live in a part of Canada where I choose if I want to speak French or not not the government
@@robbierenaud7856 If only more English speakers could follow your example and leave, people who make the effort to speak our language are welcome, the others just have to leave, they have a whole continent filled with English.
@@alvarovasquez3687 no they dont. and some of them speak at such awful levels its a joke. We live in north america ffs get a grip.
This is, by far, the dumbest thing I’ve heard all year but comes as no surprise. The only possible outcome is hurting businesses that deal outside of Quebec and what is the cost to taxpayers?
Bruh I'd be more concerned about the actual human beings that are going to be hurt by this
@@disguy6556Being "hurt" are people being "hurt" for ont knowing english in Alberta?
@@yannislaurin5438 I don't see how that relates to the issue at hand. The problem here is that the Quebec government is using the power of the state to make the lives of non-French speakers more difficult because they're too vicious, stupid and cowardly to realize that's going to do more harm than good.
It is discrimination on the highest level. Oh and by the way, you live in Canada.
How is it discrimination to offer services only in the official language of the region? How do foreigners do when they move to other countries in Europe, France or Germany? They learn the language. If we accommodate the English, we know that they will never learn French, and slowly but surely, our province will be submerged and our culture will disappear. The only solution is independence to stop this nonsense
@@elios4592 there is no 6 month requirement to learn a language and tourists usually speak English.
@@mimigr4793 Get screwed, thats all I had to say.
For the past 163 years Quebec has been a French province. So much so that all our packages are bilingual, it is considered Canada's second language and children (atleast in Ontario) are required to take French in school from grade 4 to 9. So, I do not believe Quebec is in danger of losing their French identity with newcomers immigrating to Quebec.
Literally breaking the Canadian Charter of Rights 🤦♂️
That document became meaningless decades ago. Only certain, "protected groups", have rights in Canada now.
@@brianbrooks8692 by your logic they wouldn't be eligible for equalization payments.
@brianbrooks8692 actually it does mean something, as the people of Quebec are Canadian citizens.
@@tssteelx Dis moi, tu ne viendrai pas de l’Alberta par hasard?
@@brianbrooks8692 it’s still Canada
This is how you make people hate a language.
And the people 😞
I agree. I was born and raised in Ontario to Anglophone Caribbean parents. I studied in both English and French at school in the GTA. I like the French language, but I don't think it should be shoved down the throats of people who choose to reside in Quebec. We have 2 official languages in Canada, and it's unfair that Quebec is treating English like it's an "enemy" language. English and French are supposed to hold equal places in our nation.
Then the people prove they are the problem.
@@user-ot8yh4ox1c We impose French nonsense to the rest of the country, but we can't even return the favor here. Double standard much? But sure, it's "the people" the problem.
Ah Quebec, the province built on tolerance, acceptance and inclusion.
Disgusting frogs
And nearly 14 billion in 2022-23 transfer payments from other province's taxpayers.
@@dumaguetedreamer Other province's taxpayers who are English speakers. They should reject that "dirty English speaking money".
@@dumaguetedreamer Quebec is the province with the lowest equalization payments per capita. Don’t let facts his you though!
@@vicom134 lol look it up, they still are at a net-negative and need transfers from the west and Ontario to survive; what a useless province.
Unbelievable! Let’s ask everybody in the Quebec government to learn German or Dutch and try speaking both fluently in six months! They’d probably fail! I’m glad I’m leaving Quebec this summer!
I came to Germany with zero German and spoke the language within 4 months - not fluently but I was able to communicate. However, in spite of speaking french on B1 level I neither can understand nor be understood here. This language is a French derivative, but it should be considered another separate language for the differences are too significant. It is not like a difference between Belgian french and Parisian French. Moreover, differences within Quebec cause problems as well for there are variety of different regional pronunciations. It is not like learning German or Dutch at all. It is harder in Quebec for in spite of many dialects every German speaks High German and most importantly is willing to communicate in proper German. This is not a case in Quebec. Some people will refuse to switch or are not able to speak proper French. Courses for newcomers teach Parisian French. They only give examples of a couple of phrases and words in Quebecois. The students need to hear and practice Quebecois in order to speak it. Otherwise they will read books and documents in French and be able to produce some written composition, but speak and understand 30, 40 %. I am a polyglot speaking 5 languages fluently so you don't think that I have problems learning a foreign language at least I never had before.
@@harrymandel correct. Francophones do not enunciate properly. I watched a tv show from France, and understood most what they were saying. Here in Quebec, I can't even understand the commercials they force us to watch on RUclips. It doesn't even register, might as well be mandarin, or yiddish.
@@trevorchabot864 technically Quebec french is an older form of French and France is pronouncing things incorrectly. With that said it is still much harder for most people to understand if you're not used to it and the regional accents are really too strong sometimes
@@catmaxi2599 so you're saying Quebec french is more inbred?
lucky you.
No more French speaking or French signs in ontario. It should be equal in both provinces. I grew up in western quebec and the French were always causing problems there with sign laws.
No one speak french in Ontario, so why should we accomodate english speaking people? Learning the local language when you move somewhere seems logic, not for angloïds apparently.
@@elios4592 what rock did you crawl out from under to think no one speaks French in ontario. Most of northern ontario is French!!
@@chadbauer5250 I think Ivan smokes crack
Fun fact, Quebec has a really high percentage of bilingual individuals, we cant say the same for Ontario.
@@elios4592 Ontario as 30% of its population as french speaking, I am born Ontario French, what you just said make no sense and is ill informed.
I left Montreal when I was a young man, I was english and realized the future for me was mediocre at best in Quebec.
Seeing stories like this one 35 years later reminds me of how backwards politics are there.
Do you see the decline of french as an issue?
You could have just learned French? Would you have thrown the same tantrum if you were living in France?
@@vicom134 lol been to france many times, love the people towns and cities and great skiing!
@@smashmusiquenope if the French is going to treat other citizens this way… nope it’s not an issue at all.
@@vicom134so you are all for Quebec’s coercion of people to assimilate when they are not even respecting other language or cultures? And we aren’t in France, we are in Canada where it’s supposed to be a mosaic as in all cultures and languages should be respected.
The only languages in Canada that are in danger of disappearing are indigenous languages, and yet apparently even the First Nations were not exempt from this bill. I wonder how many Quebecois ever made an effort to learn an indigenous language. Probably none.
I will not learn their language, frenchmen build all of quebec
Quebec thinks that they are so special! Please separate from Canada
Let's just kick 'em out
We do! Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French...
How is this NOT a breech of our charter rights in Canada??????? - How is this even legal in Canada?
Looks like a lot of non-French speaking people will be moving to Alberta. Thanks Quebec for making Alberta more and more important in Federal politics, and the east less so.
Hâte de vous voir dans quelques années avec une économie aussi dépendante du pétrole. Vous auriez dû faire comme la Norvège et économiser vos profits.
@@jinovarof4223 You do realize Alberta is funding Quebec right? And Quebec is gonna become even more dependent on Alberta as your economy shrinks due to all these businesses and people leaving, including French speaking youth.
@@bubuhotep if that's the price for not hearing the English cry anymore, I'm ready to pay it
@@elios4592 Have fun :)
@@bubuhotep I'm sorry what? All federal spending combined redistributes no more that 2 per cent of our GDP. Quebec is not even close to being at the top in terms of per capital equalisation payments, Atlantic Canada is. Not to mention that Alberta barely does any trade with QC, and unlike Quebec immensely benefits from at least the Canada Health Transfer. Since CHT consists of flat per-capita payments, AB receives much more than it needs with its younger population, as opposed to a more aged population of QC. And no, it's not offset through Equalisation.
I heard that English speaking people won’t have to pay taxes either?
The same people that said there should be French signs in all English speaking parts of Canada.
Time to take all the ones down that were put up, and remove all French language options from phone lines.
Lets see how they like it.
I think we all know this isn’t about maintaining French.
Imagine passing laws that make it harder to live your day to day life. How does this positively impact Quebec at all? Seems like all this is doing is making all other provinces hate them
Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French.
@@alvarovasquez3687 Why should it be an expectation to speak french, when there are two official languages and everyone else on the planet speaks a different language than you?
The way things should be is as long as you speak one of two of the Official languages of a country, you should be able to go anywhere in the country and understand everything you read and hear from Federal and provincial servinces.
If putting everything, like stop signs, menus, street signs, etc. in French will quell this victimization Quebecois claim they're experiencing, I'm all for it.
But realize you're asking a lot for a tiny minority, but seeing how our laws are currently set up, I believe you are entitled to it, as nonsensical as it may be of an ask.
I just think its really weird that Quebec is now doing what the English speaking provinces have been doing for decades (Referring to the recent changes of French only services), as if thats the solution here.
It's only adding more division in Canada, and instead of trying to come up with a Federal solution, they choose to punish the English-only speaking Minority, and tourists, in Quebec instead.
Its just really really ironic considering you just said most French people speak English. Why provide services only in French then? What is the need?
So much of what Quebec does makes no sense whatsoever to me anymore. It really seems they're just priming up for succeeding from Canada, which disappoints me
@@Chadmlad Free us, give us our independence without interfering, and the problem will be solved.
@@elios4592you voted no 🤣 we tried to kick you to the curb but you came crawling back and now a referendum is pointless cause the younger generation doesn't want to leave Canada but I'm all for it. Pay your debt and we will strike a trade deal where you get zero handouts. That way I don't have hear frogs cry about a dirty watered down version of french. Do what the French do best and surrender.
@@alvarovasquez3687curiously you've wrote this 500 times, and still nobody wants to speak the Quebec Frog language
Lol... only in Quebec. Can you imagine the uproar if Alberta tried to implement an only English law.
Laughable
@@averyannoyingdudewithadesktop if i understand your comment correctly my point was that Quebec does as it pleases where as the rest are expected to follow the federal point of view so to speak
Moved to montreal recently, don't speak french but figured if they're so strict on language laws then surely getting lessons should be easy. Websites made it seem so. Four months in and I had to pay to get private lessons at Concordia just so I can learn enough french to get a job. I hate it here. I've become way more bitter and resentful towards Quebecers as a result, which I don't want to feel but it's hard not to.
@RUclips music no instead I'm gonna embellish my ADHD and take quebec tax payers dollars out of spite
@@youtubemusic1790 i am in a situation like this but i cant move as i do not have the money too. like my options are live as a homless drug addict somewhere else or stay here.
Move to Alberta, they have the lowest taxes there and the highest minimum wage, and are accepting of all languages.
@@bubuhotep i have heard about something like that.
@@bubuhotep like honestly anywhere right now feels like an imporvement its just now i feel like moving anywhere right now i would need to sacrfice my dreams and goals in life to move :(
I will now be moving out of Quebec due to these changes. Unbelievable.
Good. Très bonne chose. Bon vent. Si tu ne veux pas faire d’effort d’intégration, d’autres viendront. Ils sont de plus en plus nombreux.
Can’t wait for the rest of Canada to adopt this for English, I think it could fix our trucking industry
Good job on turning the clock back 60 years for the province :)
This is full on discrimination right here in Canada.
In that case we should eliminate french speaking federal government employees in all other provinces. Canada would no longer needs to provide bilingual forms or bilingual speaking employees. How would you like them apples Quebec!
Yes! The French tax is obsurd. Waste on rest of Canada. I should have twice as much English on my cereal box and it should be 2 dollars cheaper.
Do it. We don’t intervene in your affairs. The best thing for us is to create an independent nation, welcoming anyone who wants to develop their life with mandatory French.
@@walideg5304 Apparently the First Nations don't want to learn French, so I assume they would be independent from Quebec.
@walideg5304 as a bilingual anglophone from Québec, I think you're very wrong. If you're so with the times that you would welcome anyone willing to make an effort to learn the language, that's great. But the "pur laine" and "Québecois de souche" mentalities are great here. It's not a simple question of learning French.
Let's add more complexity to an already bloated bureaucracy that has trouble serving it's population....
Only country in the world to have a language police. Nothing to be proud of....
In Switzerland are 4 languages spoken. They don't need a law since all the official papers are issued in all languages.
Why the Quebecoise cannot do it? Are they mentally restricted?
Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French.
@@billferner6741 In Switzerland you don't have to deal with English people. People who think everyone has to bend to them. Quebec is not bilingual, French is the only recognized language, which means that people who immigrate to Quebec must know in advance that they will have to learn French. And yet, we continue to see people come here complaining that they cannot be served in English, I think they are the mentally restricted people, not us.
@IvanDuchitt the people in Switzerland are mostly confined in the mountains. But, they are not so narrow-minded as the Quebecoise are. Every valley has its own dialect, but when I did not understand them, they switched to standard German. I never met stoneheaded people like I did in la bell province.
@@billferner6741 Germanic dialects have nothing in comon with a different language. Would you go to a french or italian speaking canton and ask every one to speak to you in german? I don't think so. The difference between Quebec and Switzerland is that here in Quebec, we had to fight to maintain our language, the anglos did everything for centuries to suppress our culture. If we hadn't resisted, we would be a dying culture like the french cajuns in Louisiana. No one wants his culture to be erazed.
As an international student in Montreal, I am amazed by the insecurities of these people hell bent in forcing new comers to learn the language. This is just ludicrous! I just wish one day they face the music going to a foreign country and being forced at gun point to learn their language. Yes, forcing at a gun point to learn the language. I will learn French, it’s a beautiful language but not at gun point.
I can see Québec tourism being affected by this law.
And if it does, I'm sure they will repeal this law or else risk their tourism going bankrupt because less international tourists will be interested to visit (for fear or difficulties of leaning French).
I'm born french from Quebec, spent majority of my life out west. This language thing is something I could never understand. I think personally, the more languages you speak, the better you're off, but that's my opinion!
If French people learn English they might leave the province so it’d probably to suppress them
The Quebec Extreme Right are Anti-MultiCulturalism, Anti-Diversity, Anti-Everything Not French.
Yes and almost all Quebec people having their first language French knows to speak English. But the opposite is not true at all. And you know it. This should be stopped.
@@walideg5304 Only 2% speak French in North America. The #1 spoken language in the Americas is Spanish. I would prefer to learn Spanish than French. Too much Discrimination is France and Quebec. Stay away.
@@Tykoon We are in our country in Quebec. You stay away of Quebec colonizer. Our grand parents were humiliated by the anglos, we will not suffer like them. We will do what we need to protect our identity.
This is crazy. Iam pulling my kids out of french immersion. Immeditely.
Quebec is the worst thing for Canada ever.
@@GarrishChristopherRobin777 And for 150 YEARS before a single Brit ever showed up.
Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French.
@@alvarovasquez3687 But the French are constantly called the racists, horrible, persecutors, entitled ones when the French are in realty the victims of Anglo racism.
Quebec was the original Canada.
@@alvarovasquez3687 Hola, some Anglophones know French, but they refuse to speak. ❤
Legault grew up in mostly English Ste Anne de Bellevue.
His resentment of the English turned into something far stronger and now that he is in a position of power, he exacts his revenge for all his perceived childhood slights.
Can English separate from Quebec ?
Anne de Bellevue is home to a little over 5,000 people. It's one of the more bilingual towns on the West Island, with a 40/40 split between anglophones and francophones, and it makes for a great daytrip if you have a sunny afternoon to kill. Ste. from google you are welcome just leave qc
It's appauling how English citizens and taxpayers are being treated as third class citizens. When you travel around the world, Asia, Europe, even in France, English signs and language are readily and openly available to all. All scientific, medical, business etc conferences held around the world are in English.
Curiously, in Quebec, French speakers speak English but English speakers don’t speak French.
@@alvarovasquez3687 you've already said that multiple times
Tu viens de prouver que ceux qui parlent anglais n’ont besoin de faire aucun effort pour apprendre d’autres langues, car tout le monde s’adapte pour eux.
@@jinovarof4223 It's not like the French haven't tried the same thing. The French lost the colonial competition with Great Britian, hence the world has adopted English as the international standard. According to your logic we should be speaking some local aboriginal language and not French or English.
@@jinovarof4223 Tout le monde parle anglais. Aprenez a le parler! Moi, je parle aussi allemande et espagnol.
Then I guess these people should not pay taxes.
Not gonna happen.
So happy we moved out of Quebec years ago....life is great in Canada!
I've disliked Quebec arrogance since I was forced to take French in high school. That was 55 years ago. So far I have seen or heard nothing to change my mind. Last time I went into Quebec, I got misdirected by just about everyone I asked directions from, Including a Provincial Police officer. No thanks, I don't need them at all. Pity our politicians keep kissing their behinds.
That goes for french speaking people particularly going to TO. I remember taking a cab from the train station in Toronto to the bus terminal (I could barely speak english) the cab driver knew I was french and gave me a hard time all the way to the bus station, it was a wake up call!
@@guy1zer Good. So we agree. You stay in Quebec, We'll stay here, never to converse again. Both will be happy.
No worries, I give opposite directions to every french speaking tourist I come across! The more lost they can become the better!
@@charlesward9486 If I'm on the ball, I reply in German, telling them I have no idea what they are on about.
@@sabrekai8706 Sorry to disapoint you but I live in Alberta 😁
And that’s why everyone comes to Quebec and drives down the 401 to Toronto. Born in Montreal, loved expo 67, the metro, the food, 76 Olympics. The habs. But, I had to endure the ridiculous political situation and when all the corporations left, there was no economic advantage. That’s the bottom line.
Politics there is so ridiculous, and it’s targeting the anglos. You can put a Turkish sign up , but god help you if you did an English one. There policy is outdated and xenophobic.
It baffles my mind how many stupid rules this country passes, the ruling class is completely out of touch with reality and regular people.
Time to cut Quebec loose and let them survive on their own without the oil transfer tax and governmet hand outs. While we are at it, ban the use of french in the rest of Canada. This is just beyond belief. We were planning on spending a couple of weeks there on our way to the east coast, now we will just drive through.
I wonder if we can get rid of mandatory french classes in school because of this. Thanks Quebec👍🏻
There are countries in Europe which in history disappeared from the map for hundreds of years, but the language survived. It survived persecution for speaking it out and inside the home, it survived influx of foreign speakers, and lack of printed materials. Don't get fooled that this is about the language. This legalize and promotes DISCRIMINATION. What a shame. # Have you ever listen to somebody who tries to communicate in a foreign language but doesn't have the skills yet? Torture! - good luck to all the service workers and others.
The bilingual laws, in Canada have a much bigger negative impact on our daily lives than people even realize. As an example, It affects the cost of our consumer products. Many companies around the world have no interest to export goods here because of the added cost and liabilities associated to do so. The return on investment is simply not there. So one, it costs them more and that cost is passed down to the consumer. Or they simply don't wish to sell their goods here. Both result in less availability and higher costs. While I can appreciate why it's important to many to protect and preserve the culture and language, there are much better ways to do so than to end up alienating yourself, from the rest of Canada and the world. Quebec used to be the jewel of Canada's massive economic growth and city development. Montreal was considered a world-class city. I am in the CPG industry, when I would call on my Quebec accounts, I was told because you are not a resident here nor the company you work for. You are our last choice. We will exhaust all avenues by looking for a local supplier first. I am Canadian born and raised in Ontario, I couldn't believe I was hearing😅 this nonsense. What a way to start or not, a mutually respecting business relationship...lol. I do business all over the world and not once was I disrespected like that, and from my own country. It's that very attitude that has ended in Quebec getting left in the dust with the growth, and development, where they could be today and the quality of life they could have had. New Immigration is vital for our country, globalization has changed the game. We need new minds, skilled labourers, and highly educated people who specialize in areas that bring opportunities and business here that are so vital to our long-term growth. The beauty of Canada and what makes this country so appealing to people looking to immigrate to a new country for a better life is our openness to all cultures. We don't discriminate here, what religion you are what clothes you wear where you shop the types of products that you have access to. The best thing of all, is the preservation of their most important cultural traditions. You have to start to draw the line when the decisions you make and laws you impose, come at a greater cost and benefit that is far too high and has such a huge negative impact on the quality of life and opportunities you sacrifice as a result.
Thank you for this comment. It's so important but few people will understand it. Those with the typical "leave, if you're not happy" answer, and people are going to leave and not just English-speaking ones, have a very narrow vision of the future. Especially if you want to become a "rich" province.
well i guess they choose culture over money.. how is that so hard to grasp?
Back in the 80's and early 90's I traveled from Ontario to the maritimes many times and we would always avoid Quebec because of the language. Most restaurant and gas stations either didn't know english or choose to ignore us.
They are right. When we go to Canada we speak English. No problem with that. You don’t want to make an effort to speak French even having growing up in Canada so normally following French course, you are just not welcomed.
@@walideg5304 9 out of 10 provinces prefer not to speak French.
@@Thatcanadianguyhey good for them. In Quebec we decide for ourselves and we don’t expect anybody else to say something on what we do, and we don’t interfere on what does Canadians in their provinces. We are waiting urgently for our country to protect our beautiful culture which is admired everywhere in the world. Everybody who wants to learn French and integrate is more than welcome in Quebec.
This should affect tourism...
We do not base the future of our children and the survival of our culture on the opinion of tourists.
@@elios4592 Cities like Montreal and Quebec City literally and figuratively rely on these things. Yet they are two of the cheapest major cities in Canada to live in because Quebec itself has completely devalued them. Quebec City now looks as bad as Windsor and it will soon be worse.
Quebec in in debt, objectively cannot look after it’s own as is completely reliant on the Canada dollar and the CANADIANS who have them.
Deal with it.
Imagine if the rest of Canada did this to Québec? They would be crying and complaining accusing us of discrimination. This is a huge step backwards and will only cost Quebec down the road when it comes to tourisms, international business, investments ect... Canada should not tolerate this behavior.
Yeah I agree. Anything goes in the rest of Canada. I'm so sick of the gaslighting and hypocrisy. What a joke.
This law is designed so that immigration is contralled or happens at a slower rate than Ontario. If this law did not exist Quebec would have a lot more immigration to deal with . Easy way of keeping NIMBYism alive.
How can a bill over right the official language of Canada in Quebec English & French is the official language in canada that what is says in the charter right and freedom :: (1) English and French are the official languages of Canada and have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the Parliament and Government of Canada.
Yes.... but only for Federal Services. Provinces can have different access levels. In Nova Scotia, it is all English for provincial services.... but... at Access Nova Scotia offices, there is always someone who can communicate in French, and in offices in predominantly Acadian regions, the majority of staffers operate in French, with the cliental. I don't think they offer Gaelic services in Cape Breton yet.... but that might be a future possibility.😁
How? By having the largest concentration of people with even a shred of ancestral French DNA who have been rigorously and systematically brainwashed and indoctrinated since birth for the last 300 years/several generations via an incessant stream of anti-English, pro-French propaganda that is continually being perpetuated by both power-hungry French politicians AND the Catholic Church as it operates in Quebec. And this enormous concentration of brainwashed French DNA votes in FEDERAL elections which means they can pretty much demand whatever they want if federal politicians want any chance at all of being in power. That's how.
Under any other circumstances, what's going on in Quebec - and has been going on in Quebec for many, many decades - would be called out for exactly what it is. Which is blatant and appalling discrimination and bigotry. Not to mention being really, REALLY anti-Canadian - and most likely not even constitutional.
But, oh, the power of numbers. _Especially_ when it comes to getting votes at the federal level.
I am wondering how they will serve tourists in coffee shops , restaurants. Only in French? Tourists coming on vacation here are not obligated to speak and understand a weird french accent.
Boycott quebec
Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French.
@@alvarovasquez3687 but many french speakers that know English refuse to admit that they know it. I find it interesting that quebec has problems with "loosing" the language but many other cultures in Canada have a strong and vibrant language retention Ukrainian, Chinese, many of the middle Eastern community's
French l??? For what??? Useless language
@Name Kitchener Berlin Again man, nobody wanna learn french
Asta la vista Quebec😎 Thank God I’m out a there!
There is so much wrong with this. Expect Montreal to face further declines relative to global peers.
Any legislation, any thought, any law which divides society must be challenged & stopped. This so called fight "French vs English" is absolute non-sense & handiwork of few corrupt politicians to gain short term favour.
French was forced on me in grade school starting in grade 4,I'm not surprised by this law at all.
We are already in 21st century but some prefer to still live in the 18th.
I guess that this was the start of Quebec's separation from the federal govt.
I am amazed that all the other parties coward down to this law.
*cowered
Quebec desperately trying to isolate itself from the world like North Korea. Good job Kim Jon Legault
The whole world does not revolve around the language of the anglos.
@@elios4592 International language of business is english
@@M85Iroc The whole world doesn't revolve around business
Dos this new draconian law include the police in Quebec being issued red armbands with a black fleur-de-lis in a white circle?
The last time I checked this is Canada, not France. What a bad joke 😑
It's a nightmare here.
I grew up in Greenfield Park (Hi Wade!) ... this is why I left Quebec almost 40 years ago. We will be travelling through Quebec on our way to the Atlantic provinces this summer. I guess I will take my Grade 3 report card with me so they have to speak to me in English. Pardon my French, it's a bit rusty.
Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French.
@@alvarovasquez3687 Read the room. Do you speak Spanish? And this whole topic is about not being able to speak English in Quebec. Kudos to you if you are bilingual!
@@ldawn1540 Our ancestors have suffered enough from the tyranny of the Anglophones, our generation has decided to resist. May the malcontents follow your example and leave Quebec.
Funny how things change. Greenfield Park todays is mostly french. English moved to other city. You won't need your report card. Nobody is going to ask.
@@elios4592 We will bypass Quebec in the next trip. And election. You want out of Canada? Pay your taxes and GTFO.
I was born in Montreal, spend all my life in french schools, this law is absurdly stupid.
Everyone criticizing this will be complaining when mandarin eventually replaces english.
As a french Canadian this so ridiculous
I mean, can't these politicians go do something good for a change? Instead of wasting time, money and energy on bigoted behaviour? If you want people to learn something, make it enjoyable. You don't use it as a cudgel.
They could have spent that money on teaching the language. You have to start teaching them in preschool if you want to be successful.
It just goes to show the immaturity and pettiness behind their intentions. Culture is just used as an excuse for bigotry.
They also started in this specific effort at the beginning of the height of the lockdown…their priorities really were clear…
Anything related to services (or three in territories/reserves)....should have both languages available. If they don't have an English speaker to help, they should help book a time for them to have one. Hire these bilingual ppl.. that would help a hell lot... You need to understand, there was a lot of Ontario cities that have French speakers who lived in English speaking towns due to work opportunities and farming life in the past...That is same for Quebec's Montreal and Quebec cities...where it was a growing city of industry and lots of English speakers, even immigrants who use English as their second language come to live and work... it is for sure a discrimination for people who speak English in Quebec. That is a huge language barrier. If they are so scared of loosing their French, then begin by changing your curriculum in French schools... Provide workshops or French ESL for future immigrants who want to live in Quebec and work for the city, and for those who want to pursue their education in Quebec French schools. Do not discriminate services for people... due to their language. As someone who's mother tongue is French, I can tell you the education system suck for me as a bilingual, and did not help me, or stick with me throughout the years in primary school to High school (aka: Francisation/orthopédagogie).
I'm not visiting quebec that's for sure false advertising on the commercials
You can see it happening. One of the 2 English-speaking phone operators gets sick. New message. "If you need English-speaking help call back in a week or learn French" or "Have you considered moving to Ontario." Bonjour.
This bill has many downsides. In the country where Im from English and our national language are being used to communicate with other people who can't speak our language. We are not afraid that our language will be overtaken by neighbouring languages. In fact, we become trilingual. I observe here in Quebec as well that the kids from our country who grow up here can speak québécois despite the language at home is our local language, english and our national language. The kids know 4 languages. If quebec will shut english. The kids will have difficulty connecting to other people outside quebec. For me Quebec is in more advantage if the people know english and french as it is the two major languages of the world. While most of the countries or places are opening up , Quebec is doing the opposite.
While its politicians happily send their kids to get educated in English private schools.
I have realized in recent years that this is the aim of Quebec’s politicians. If you grow up unilingual french in North America you CANNOT go anywhere. You are STUCK there!
@@catherinewilson1079
Plus, Francophone parents are not allowed to send their kids to Anglo schools.
I’m so glad I have no intention of visiting Quebec in my life time. They wanted French installed in schools so the anglophones let them, signs in both French and English because French is the second language of Canada and anglophones had no problems because they are ‘part of Canada’. Now they pull this kind of stunt…..I can hardly wait until their tourism drops then listen to them cry then. Seems everyone else has to cater to them.
The Anglos in Quebec were not given a choice. Anglos are a minority in Quebec.
I don't see french signs or hear french speakers in the GTA I think a francophone migrant from the middle east or Africa would find it hard living there
You should visit Quebec, it’s a beautiful place with historical architecture and a unique culture that most of North America lacks. The people are great too. It’s a shame the politics are like that though.
@@dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621 the politics are like that because that is Quebecers want.
@@naturadventur7425 I don't think all the Quebecers think that way
Instead of fixing the broken infrastructure of the city all they worry about is the language..there is definitely no smart leader in this province, to bad Montreal exist in QC
Proud to be Canalien!
Happy I left that dumpster fire of a province
We just now they will pass a law that all immigrants to Quebec must speak French as their first language 😂😂😂 I go Quebec and Montreal all the time and must say I never had any major problems communicating and I speak English 😂😂😂
No Provincial Service offered in French in BC... 311 Vancouver has not French service... BC ministry suggests to use google translate for their website.... Normal or not? New Brunswich is the only bilingual province in Canada after all, right? Now, if it's Federal service, that's another story.
How many French-speaking people live in British Columbia?
@@shauncameron8390 1/3 of the province.
@@yannislaurin-kamouche According to the 2016 Canadian census, French is the first official language of 1.4 per cent of the population of British Columbia
You are lying again.
@@shauncameron8390 1.4%
@@naturadventur7425 Oh I tought it was talking about NB. Anyaway it doesn't justify not having french services when we have english services when the english are 7% in Québec.
I see our federal government, just allows this garbage to happen. no one seems to the the GUTS to stand up to this province. As long as we have a week Federal government, this type of this is going to continue and get worse. I was born and brought up in Quebec and moved out over 30 years ago. Seeing what Quebec is doing to the english population of Quebec just boils my blood.
Because Trudeau himself is from Québec.
@@Avionics1958 We need a PM that is not from Quebec and one that has the BALLS to take on Quebec over their abuse of power
@David Campbell if it's not too late already. Getting rid of all the English speakers make Québec one step closer to separation.
@R. Vass I am in full support of Quebec separating! If Canada ever had a vote about if, I would vote YES to Quebec separating.
Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French.
Last Anglophone that leave Quebec please turn out the lights.
my family has been in Montreal for over 200 yrs.
I will never forgive the Quebec on how i was treated most of my life because i speak english.
thank god i moved to ontario.
its hard for me to forgive my parents for trying to raise me here and only speaking english.
@thewewguy8t88 sorry, forgive them for what?
Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French.
@@alvarovasquez3687 cry me a river!
je parle francais .
mange lamarde 😊
French barbarism in practice
Dictatorship in French only.....😁
The English Canadians have tried to do the same thing though…
Curiously, in Quebec, French-speakers speak English but English-speakers don’t speak French...
They wanted to split from Canada years ago, Canada said no. This is a round about way to "remove" or "segregate" themselves from the rest of Canada... lol
Actually, it was Quebecers themselves that said NO to separation - in BOTH of their provincial referendums!
I think we can accept the Quebec can do whatever they want for language perference, while they also need to take the consequences of their choice - more and more people are moving out of Quebec. And this isolation also causes the cost increase of every industry. In this case you will not be able to request any "fair competition“ with the manufacturer from other provinces.
They need not worry about that since they rely on "equalization payments" from Alberta to make up the difference...
If that's the price to finally get rid of the anglos, I'm ready to pay it.
@@elios4592 Are you ok? Are you being bullied by these mean anglos? Are they hitting you over the head with an English dictionary?
The population is growing in Quebec. Yes more and more people who don’t want to learn French are leaving, it’s a good thing. Au revoir.
It's not real French, it's French-Canadian French. Having needed real French in my work, I can tell you our version is generally laughed at. I find it sad that the people of Quebec are so limited and biased in their approach to this issue AND that we are going through this same garbage AGAIN.
Stop with that. I am both French and Quebecor and the language was d the same with a different accent and few different words. Like Scottish and American. Or South African and Australian.
that's stupid, french canadian is french as much as belgium french or southern france french.
what happen if it's an emergency call are they still not provide those services in english....?
I guess we won't be visiting Quebec or living there.
It's completely silly to confine ourselves in the French language when being part of the Western world as well as being part of the more and more multipolar world.
Despite its now controversial origin..., English has become the Esperanto of the World.
For Quebec, and for any province or country..., the only official and common language should be the one that stems from the respect of differences.
The best way to promote the French language is for the French speaking Quebecers to cultivate excellence, to be compassionate and to have children. ; - )
(I'm a French Quebecer...)
Colonisé mentalement malheureusement.
Protect a language? Have they done any basic research? That pretty much 100% takes Quebec off my list of places I was thinking about moving (or travelling) to, and means that I will never learn French past the 50% I received in Grade 8 French class. If I could move there, set up my life in English, I would undoubtedly learn French over time, just like when I lived in Germany for 5 years. I learned German after I moved there, but only because I could get by with English for basic services to get started. There's not a chance I would move to a place where I need to know the language before getting there or be barred from basic services. Particularly if that's just the beginning. :/
It’s not the case, I’ve learned French in La commission scolaire de Montréal, I never heard a single word in English to get it until last level 12th
Perfect, we don't want people like you here so at least we are on the same page on that topic.
Same thing on the West with French we don't have service and we don't have right either
I thought Quebec put the provincial absurdity to rest. This proves me wrong. Sad.
Quebecers especially in Montreal: "We're one of the most progressive and open minded societies in the world!"
Also Quebecers: "If you're an Anglophone born in Montreal, you're not really a Quebecer."
They are right. If you are born in Quebec and you don’t speak French, then it means you are mentally colonised and you never put enough effort to learn French. You should leave Quebec then and go to Canada or the US.
English is the world language... isnt most of the western internet in English?
Thank the USA for that.
I'm not going to lie, I like the laws. I'm English speaking from Ontario, but I studied French my whole life because, duh, I immigrated to a bilingual country. In Europe (where I'm from), it is an expectation that most people can speak more than one language. Learning a new language for toddlers is not hard unless they have learning disabilities, but even still, in Europe kids with disabilities are still able to grasp new languages. I believe in the protection of French, and I don't see anything wrong with asking people to learn it to communicate in Quebec. Don't like it? Come to Ontario, where we speak English.
I left Quebec for Ontario, 2 years ago for the best
Good, just leave and never come back!
It's a crap hole by many measures