Quebec's French language law Bill 96 comes into effect
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2023
- On Thursday, major provisions of Bill 96 take effect across Quebec, including ones that make it harder to access government services in English.
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I guess we can now pass a law stating only English spoken outside of Quebec,we can then send all our bilingual traffic signs to Montreal
Bilingual isnt allowed. French only.
You've already done it, it's just that you are too 🥴 to study history
I grew up in Ontario and went to French Immersion. I moved and had to attend an English school so I lost my conversational skills and never learned adult vocabulary. I've been trying to re-learn and looked into government funded classes and they told me its only free for immigrants. I am a citizen born and raised-- it seems unfair that learning our second language to increase my job opportunities has to cost me and I lived here my whole life. Now watching this video and seeing there's a work shortage, they should consider funding language programs for those who want to learn to advance their careers.
I agree, incentives bring things much further than penalties.
I agree
I came to Quebec 2 years ago and I study French about 1.5 years. I am improving but I am still far from having a fluent conversation in French. I am not 100% sure how strongly this would affect me since many things of daily life are already in French anyway (like my son's daycare for instance) but sometimes is still necessary to switch to English to fully understand the context of a discussion. In general I think this is a bummer for people who accepts their desire to protect the French language and try to follow it but when you come from a Germanic language like me, it just takes time. In my opinion you can't compare people coming from a Latin based language like Portuguese, Spanish or Italian with others whose mother tongue not having the same roots. I frequently see such comparisons and it just doesn't apply.
Why did you come to quebec? There are 9 other provinces to choose from to live, where they dont descriminate and even treat their french citizens better than quebec treats its english citizens.
Alright, now try the same in the U.S. where there isn't an official language federally and depending on the state English is or isn't official but irrelevant of that English is expected out of everyone.
What do you say to that?
Hi, if everyone speaks with Quebec accent, they will be happy ❤
@@ronchasr6656 ... it wasn't planned. I was transferred by my organization and our plant is in Quebec. However, we like it here too that's why i spend much time to learn French.
@@jeanbolduc5818 ... yes i do not have enough opportunities to speak.
I wish the government of Quebec understood that protecting a language through the removal of freedoms isn't the way to go. Forcing French on everyone out of paranoia isn't the way to go.
Well put! 👍 Bill 96 does exactly as you stated it, and the powers given towards enforcing it are a definite imposition on people's rights and freedoms. As an example, 'Bill 96 gives the province’s “language police,” the Office Québécois de la langue francaise (OQLF), the right of search and seizure at business premises without a warrant.' So where has the world seen such extremisms before?
Dude Montreal is litteraly already gone what are you talking about
It makes people want to learn and speak English.
@c.m.redhouse7667 The CAQ can't stand the fact that there are one million Anglophones in Quebec. As long as Québec isn't a pure French Speaking Society they will always say French is threatened.
They're going to make people despise the language because it's going to be perceived as a political weapon. In Spain something similar is happening in Catalonia. All Catalonians, including the Spanish-speaking ones, were super proud of being bilingual and keeping their regional language alive, but since their nationalist government started to pass language laws that forced Catalan over Spanish a good chunk of their population is starting to perceive the reality of what nationalists want: no bilinguism. So now they don't feel Catalan as their language even though they're bilingual. And the results speak for themselves: after all their measures to impose Catalan for decades, Spanish keeps getting stronger, so...
Does that mean the rest of Canada doesn't need to offer services in French? .
and did they ?
Provinces do what provinces do, Federal stuff is available by standard in several languages, and in written translation upon request.
It seems complicated and stuff, but literacy is already a measured and a norm in all the provinces anyway.
Local public schools likely offer Basic Life Skills and Adult Literacy classes.
@@jacksonvidalvlog I live in New Brunswick, where people have lost their jobs because of some francophone complaining the immediate person who spoke to them wasn't bilingual (despite offering to get them a French speaking person instead).
@@The_Keh27 And what the link between Quebec and New Brunswick ? How are those 2 events even connected ?
@@The_Keh27Ok but you complain if we don't give services in english?😂
They need to just seperate from Canada and be done with it. Nobody else in Canada cares at all about Quebec. Seperate and the rest of Canada can tax the crap out of Quebec for goods in and out of Provence.
@@WildMan576 👍😀
Quebec is the second largest providence by gdp in Canada….. that would not go well at all
Canada would cease to exist if Quebec leave
If you are a student and want to stay in Quebec long term: Learn French! It’s simple. If you’re an immigrant in Quebec - learn French! Simple. 😊
I thought people had the freedom of choice in Canada? I live in Montreal and speak French fluently but i still choose to speak English wherever i go.
@@tmatthd4467 free societies have rules. If people elect to move to a French speaking province then they should learn French. I think Quebec is too lenient: they should make it even more difficult to receive education from English instruction schools.
But to pay for all the changes, they require money from the federal government.
It's tax payers money from other provinces being used....
Where does the federal money come from? Taxes and duties of all kinds from taxpayers and corporations of Canadian provinces and territories. Quebec's contribution was $51.546 billion in 2022, according to data from the Ministry of Finance led by Chrystia Freeland.
This money is redistributed across Canadian provinces and territories via equalization, a federal program ensuring an equivalent standard of living for all Canadians wherever they are.
And so does everything done in English speaking provinces being paid by French speaking Quebecois’ tax payers money..
We give 750 millions of dollars to the federal government... every year. We don't owe as much as you like to believe.
Appalling.
This is the most Quebec thing ive ever heard 😂
All this means is that I must now treat french speaking Canadians the same that they treat english speaking citizens.
Ohhh wayyyy more than that. Have you read Bill 96? If so, then you read that, 'Bill 96 gives the province’s “language police,” the Office Québécois de la langue francaise (OQLF), the right of search and seizure at business premises without a warrant.' ??? And you agree with this? IMHO, only if it applies to your neighbor and not you I suppose?
It would not affect how I ski in Quebec.
@@northernsamba7388 Perhaps not how you ski, but this Bill is considered a slippery slope that is already causing dissension .
@@suzannelong4631 What I can see where Bill 96 could have done better is include protection of Native Languages and Cultures.
Then why TF does the rest of the country need to learn french? Drop that class immediately everywhere else if thats what they are going to pull
This is a tough situation to be in because in one hand Quebec needs immigrants for labour shortages and in the other, Quebec needs to protect the French culture and the French language in the province. This is the same problem that many first world countries have because of low birth rates. For example, Japan wants to remain Japanese but in the future it might have to depend on immigrants for labour shortages and to sustain its economy. Japan has low birth rates and has an ageing population just like South Korea and many European countries. But an influx of immigrants can change existing cultures and the demographics of that country. I’m from Brampton, Ontario and in the early 2000s, caucasians were the majority in the city of Brampton. After a while an influx of south asians started to settle in Brampton and now they are the majority. It took only about a decade for Brampton’s demographics to change. The culture and the vibe of the city completely change. I go to my workplace and you can hardly hear people speaking English anymore. What happened to Brampton can happen to Quebec, Japan or other countries experiencing the same problem. That is why I encourage people to have more babies because children are the future of any civilizations. Children will run the country one day and if people don’t procreate then eventually a country will have to depend on immigrants to fill in the spots.
Oh just go ahead and say those 14 words, you know you want to. *snacks on shawarma*
@@SwobyJ soy
Having babies in this economy "to replenish the population" is a big ask... lol
Why Quebec needs to protect the French culture and the French language?
@@operacarmenEnglish Canada has often tried to eradicate us
oh sure, when I worked in a call centre and had a French customer call, they got very angry and said "you have to offer in English AND French" but when they remove the English option, that's not a big deal? Maybe Quebec SHOULD have separated into its own country back in the 90s
Hope quebec becomes sovereign and kick out all liberals crap from it.
As I'm ethnically French, I'd have laughed and told that person about my grandfather who refused to allow his kids to learn or speak québécois.
He chose to be Anglo, rather than to speak that.....
Federal, Provincial... get the nuance, dipshit?
Oh so it's ok to not give services in french even if we ask and now you're mad that we play your game😂?
Yeah because we have enough of not having french services. So why are you mad that we act like you? You act like if you were not in the wrong.
So, with this new law, does this FINALLY relieve the other 9 provinces and 3 territories, as well as the RCMP in those provinces and territories, of the onerous burden of having to provide services in the faux-Canadian-french language? #Quebec thinks French is a 'losing' language, maybe because it is? Canadian french has about as much in common with French as English does. How are they going to run their legal system? They will have to provide interpreters for everyone. Maybe building a wall around Quebec and closing it off from the rest of Canada IS a good idea.
*#CBCNews** **#Bill96** **#FauxFrench*
Only dumb people think that this law will help French Quebecer. The truth is it's just another move by the Quebec government to make sure that french people don't have to do the effort of learning English which make all those loser unable to get out of the province. It's all about keeping the sheeps in line. It has nothing to do with the language.
It’s one of the ugliest languages I’ve ever encountered. Horrid.
Quebec as a province is equivalent to an agnsty teenager who threatens to run away every week but wants you to pay for their apartment.
@@Teh_Random_Canadian Again with this irrevelent claim....
Again the same lie based on idiocy again and again. French is one unique language. French over the world understand each other. There are few differences like a Scottish with an Australian or a South Africa and an American. The accent is different but the words are almost the same.
I immigrated to Canada few years ago. Currently living in Ontario but plan to move to Quebec. I don’t speak French, but have a strong desire to learn it. Actually, already started. Is it a good idea? In my perspective, Quebec is so beautiful and unique! I really want to live there! ❤
We would be very happy to welcome you my friend 😉
Only if you are white
Even if you learn French you will be discriminated based on your accent or lack of perfect fluency.
I go to McGill and I have friends born in other countries but were raised in Montreal since they were 8-10 and completed their schooling in French.
And in interviews they are told by the French Canadians, “Your French is not fluent.”.
I'm from Québec, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you have very thick skin and are alright with constantly being asked which country you're from (no, not province... country), and told that you must not be from here. You'll never really feel welcome or wanted. But it's a shame because it's truly rich in history and a beautiful place.
@@KRL1999Arich history of what? Of french farmers trying to farm a few acres of snow, then being lumberjacks in the winter time? There was a GOOD reason why over a million french-canadiens left Quebec for other parts of North america! In Quebecs defence though, the British were absolute batards (they still are, btw LOL).
Great. Makes me happily move back to Ontario and pay a lower individual and corporate tax.
I tried the French courses offered by the Quebec government. Yes it's free. Yes, you waste most of your time going through months learning not much.
" pay a lower individual and corporate tax" indeed but pay thru the nose for real estated unless you live in a small place like Cornwall.
And when you try practicing your French on the streets...you get ridicule. The only good thing French is French kissing.
I guess I'm not moving there
I won't even visit. And I would advise any tourists who aren't francophones to go elsewhere. Also, I advise any tourists who *are* francophones, but who don't hate their anglophone neighbours, not to go there either.
Good
@@tailkinker1972 You're a bit dramatic John
I used to live in Quebec as an immigrant child just when they went through the referendum. It was the worst experience ever as an Anglo. Once I graduated from university, I immediately moved to Ontario. Best thing I ever did. Will never go back to Quebec
Good you moved. You don’t want to make the effort to integrate to the local society. You take the best decision for you and for Quebec.
imposing things on people is not the future!!!
I dunno. The US seems to be doing that a lot recently
It's fascism
I live in small town Ontario. I had french class in school since grade 6, dropped it in grade 10 because I did not learn enough to understand, or converse in French, and I honestly tried. The French they teach us in school is Parisian, not Quebecois. If you do not speak French in your household, it is a difficult language to become fluent in. Most of us are not weathly enough to hire a private french tutor unless we are a big company CEO. I am sorry I cannot speak French, but why should a person be discriminated against and punished for not being able to speak it. The Quebec politicians would be better to promote their lsnguage in a more positive way by offering private French tutors for all us!!
Its the same way Canadian tax payers are punished for carbon taxes and bs taxes while refugees and illegals make most money. Why discriminate people based on origin? French is our national language and hence whosoever wants to deal with it should learn it.
It's exactly the same in Quebec. We have English class in school from elementary school to the end of high school. Yet, the class are so bad that in the end 75% of the students can't hold a conversation in English.
@@cybermad64 yet most global media (Hollywood) and global jobs are ENGLISH speaking.
In quebec i took french from grade 3 to grade 11. After i finished high school i still couldnt speak french.
We speak french in Quebec ... there is only one french language just like english but many accents ... excuses ... anglophones have always had excuses not learning french as we have to be bilingual as a french Canadian
stop services in french in the rest of canada
Exactly, no point in them anyway
🙄
And start them in Spanish
What? They must declare what proportion of their employees can't converse in French? To what purpose, and this is none of their business imho. Are they planning on telling small business who they can or can't employ? Are they thinking/working towards getting a quota enforcement plan?
There's quota for everything, why are you opposed only to this one? In a French-speaking community, don't you think it should be prioritized?
@@serhanaksoyler I am just sharing my opinion on the issues being discussed here. 😀 And yes, I am opposed to any quota that causes discrimination and that removes a person's freedom of choice. As to, 'should it be prioritized?' If, as the census I found show, '...French remains the first official language spoken by more than 90 per cent of Quebecers.Aug 22, 2022' And, '80% speak it as a first language.' With numbers like these I don't see the language as disappearing or being in any danger. Side note, I just read that further to Bill 96 going into effect and that, 'Premier Legault wants all Quebec immigrants to be French speakers by 2026. Yet his government has already waived that requirement in the province’s quest to become a North American hub of electric-vehicle (EV) technology.'
Heh, Alberta is Calling!
Even in ontario alot of ppl not speaking french or english im so happy im bilingual
Dear Anglophones, do you want to move to another province?
I’m moving to Montreal from Ontario. I’m sick of the mass immigration and no affordable housing. I was born in Quebec but moved to Ontario when I was 5.
When I get there I can take 10 weeks of French classes put on by the government. I already speak basic French from French immersion in my elementary school.
I am very excited tbh
Has the Quebec government also augmented this law by providing good effective encouraging french language training, adult learning as well as for children, popular movies and books in french free from their libraries to help fsl learners? How about providing french teachers to other provinces? They could also give students a taste of Quebec culture. A sort of goodwill ambassadors program?
They don't even speak French in Quebec......
@@canucktruckerbear True, mainly all immigrant speak English. Go in Montreal, you can't even be served in French now.
@CanuckTrucker Bear. False! I live in Montreal (born and raised). In certain neighbourhoods of Montreal people mostly speak English but in most areas of the city it’s all French. As for the rest of Quebec, it’s all French. Walk into a store and you will be greeted in French, road signs are in French, store names are in French, hospitals, police, etc all greet you in French. So (CanuckTrucker Bear), your statement is incorrect.
@@lon8486 That one flew right over your head.
@@canucktruckerbear Very true they don't speak the French of France. 😀 They speak Quebec French or Quebecois which is a variant of Canadian French. Canadian French also includes Acadian and Michif ( Metis language) variants. In France they speak European French/Parisian French/Metropolitan French.
OK! Two can play this game. Every other province should make English their official language.
No one cares about english canada
Manitoba already tried that and it worked for nearly a century. But, they are still mostly anglophone while required to have a bilingual legislature and judicial system, similar to Quebec. You see Quebec doesn't want what happened in Manitoba to happen to it, the moment it gained an anglophone majority all francophone rights were thrown out the window!
Also, remember New Brunswick must be fully bilingual!
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinionsYet the municipality of Belle-Baie recently declared themselves a French community and said they will provide English courtesy translations when absolutely necessary. How is that legal in a bilingual province?
@@KRL1999
I don't know yet!
@@KRL1999
As it turns out official bilingualism in NB only applies if the settlement has at least 20% official language minority (Anglophones or Francophones).
So, I was born & raised in MTL as an anglphone. Have been living outside Canada for 20+ years. If I want to move back to Québec, can I obtain the necessary documents in english, or will new immigrant regulations apply to me?
Pretty sure immigration is managed by the Canadian government, Quebec in not a country.
If you are born in Mtl, you don't need to fill any paper work, you are Canadian...
Don't move to Quebec. Move to Canada instead.
@@SpaceXToMarsFun fact: if you're born in another province and wish to be inserted into the Québec Civil registry, you have to pay a certified translator to translate your birth certificate into French, because Québec only accepts French documents... 😂
@@KRL1999 well, it is a French province… wonder if I go in China, I can give them French paper if they will accept them.
Also, does this mean music acts who tour and stop into Quebec or Montreal will have to sing in French now too? They're already going to need translators for contracts and deals with the venues
Yes.......that's what it means..................🙄
Everything will need to be in french, book, magazine, they will even block all non-french content on the internet. So yeah music in included. (just kidding here) :P
@@cybermad64 Damn, don't do that, Anglophone will go crazy, they can't read till the end...
No, they can sing in English but only half as loud.
@@solitaire5142 best comment ever!
They're doing it and it a terrible thing that they are doing, it ludicrous.
Political decision, to distruct from other problems.
English sounds like it needs protection
It is so 80s, now ChatGPT and other AI model can do the real-time translation; what is the point of blocking the languages.
It seems like we could have nearly totally effective (for most typical business use) voice translation tools within the next decade. (we already have some of this, but its sooner enough, getting into the conversational level) And when there's an issue, Quebec has the most bilingual people in Canada so a confusion can be easily ironed out. So this is a culture war, not as much of a logistical challenge.
I don't necessaraily have a problem with it (I'm bilingual) as French is in danger but by doing so, other provinces could equally retaliate and cut French programs outside of Quebec cause 9 provinces shouldn't cave in to one province.
7 provinces! Manitoba and New Brunswick both are constitutionally bound to have some bilingual services, look up *section 23 of the Manitoba Act, 1870* and *section 16.1 of the Constitution Act, 1982.*
Also, while you're at it you'll notice that Quebec is also bound similarly as Manitoba is but instead via *section 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867.*
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Ok.. cool. So does English have something similar in Quebec?
@@Maxmulham
Yes, article 23 of the Constitution Act, 1982 protects the educational rights of both official language minorities in all provinces!
The whole “historical Anglo” thing comes from that and few other things such as Section 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867 among other parts. Which is why Quebec, as much as some may wish, can't totally remove English from the province. It's nowhere near the bilingual policy of NB, but English does have some protections contrary to popular believe.
The current government is pushing the letter of the law as much as they can in relation to those constitutional guarantees! I'm sure eventually some courts will whittle it down, but it won't be the same as before.
French isn't in danger, indigenous languages are. But good luck finding Quebecois who bother learning an indigenous language.
@@Wilson-xd4zq
True, but what about the anglophones?
Is French in danger? Probably not. Is it in decline? Most certainly!
If most provinces had a bilingual policy like New Brunswick, then I don't think it would be declining as much as all statistics have shown.
Are indigenous languages of Canada in danger? *Yes!*
They need, at minimum, something like Ontario's French Language Services Act for all indigenous languages for them to have a snowballs chance. But, none have enacted anything like that.
Getting the immigrants to learn French in 6 months? What the Quebec government think they are? Babbel or Rosetta Stone?
LOL Maybe they can develop a vaxxine that will make one speak french & not english? ( i misspelled intentionally because of Ewetubes language police)
If the French speaking community was more social to the English we all would have benefited from the two languages. Blame blame thst all separatists can do.
Isn't that what you are doing right now...............😆😆😆😆
I see it as it is here. Have lived herev78 yrs and its a social matter
Your personal experience is irrelevant. As a society in general we are very welcoming. The older english people living here just want it back like in the old days, pre Révolution tranquille, when they got to make the rules and impose it on the French majority. Despite that we are still welcoming to all who want to come, integrate and live here. As would be expected anywhere else. When in Rome...
@@CharlesRobitaille514 If you want to talk history, then the native Canadians who were here prior even to the Vikings might have a few things to say about losing a language, culture, religion, freedoms and their land. But that aside, the census numbers show a marked increase in speaking of the French language in Quebec over the past few years. These census numbers disprove the propaganda that the language is in danger of disappearing and must be protected. Check them out. 😀 But that aside, have you even read Bill 96? Well here are a few tidbits I found,
'Bill 96 gives the provincial government sweeping powers to dictate language use in most realms of Quebec society. It requires all Quebec companies to do business in French.
Businesses with more than 25 employees can be required to launch a “francization program” and continually report to the government on how French is protected in their workplaces.
Bill 96 gives the province’s “language police,” the Office Québécois de la langue francaise (OQLF), the right of search and seizure at business premises without a warrant.
And the bill requires employers to explain to the government why they find it necessary to hire someone who speaks a language other than French.'
Side note, I read yesterday that your Premier has already begun to add waivers to the Bill in support of some economic prospects, ie Big companies. So IMHO, it seems that the language protection requirement can be thrown to the wayside by the current provincial government, if the money is right? Go figure.
Most paranoid people in Canada.
The government giving services in French only, in a country that said is bilingual is quite telling. It's bilingual for English speakers and institutions only. Good people are prone to believe that if they accommodate the bully they will get peace, but history shows that this is not the way bullies work. When kind people let go of rights the bullies feel encouraged to ask for more and trample on kind people's rights even more. If they don't stop the madness soon the government of Ontario will be required to give its services in French only and basic rights for English speakers like freedom of expression will be gone (for everybody, it's not like the francophones will discriminate, is that they don't give the same level of importance to freedom of expression).
This is very sad, it once again feels like we are trying to protect something that shouldn’t require laws to be protected….
If people are interested in keeping the language alive because the culture means something to them, they will… laws can slow decline nothing more.
All those efforts could’ve been put into making the written language more accessible in our North American environment.
From the outside looking in, this looks like someone trying way too hard to sustain a doomed relationship. Languages and other things come and go. Trying too hard to save something can easily speed up the decline. I think The province would do much better by offering resources and incentives for people to learn French. Incentive is always much more effective than punishment. It makes me wonder, do they really want to keep their language or do they want to enjoy exclusivity?
@@timothyjackson4653 "Languages come and go" Bro, French has existed since the year 900 approximately. Languages don't just "come and go"
How did CBC get in my feed.
Cellphones can translate real time with apps we should be moving past language requirements already.
I am Acadian from Louisiana by descent. I live in Texas now and everything is bilingual Spanish English. Seems to work but I can understand following the dominant historical cultural language. Because when does it stop. Other people come in who do not speak English or french. So should they be accommodated as well too.
This is an anti English rasists movement that has gone on too long. Over 70 yrs here in Quebec. How its been allowed to grow. No Federal intervention. French isn't dying in Quebec nor does it need protection. Never did. Political lie to manipulate.
Make the rest of Canada...English only. Take down all French signs in the rest of Canada. Restrict teaching French in the rest of Canada. The English-speaking majority ought to refuse to speaking any French language. Majority rules...make Canadian government operated and conduct business is English only. Once the rest of Canada's English-speaking majority refuse to speak French...Quebec will tone down its policies...believe me.
Yes
No NHL in quebec city, but we have the greatest junior hockey rink in the world.
Yeah, Quebec, they’re cutting off their nose to spite their face.
And the Charter of Rights and Freedoms goes into the toilet.
It's not worth the paper it's written on!Some people are more equal than others.
Imagine if Ontario had English rule law? Wow.
All we can do is to hope that the rest of the world never learns to hate the way the French Canadians hate the non French Canadians!
Oh please continu your victimization. How not giving english services in a french province is "hating"?
@@yannislaurin5438 It is not giving the same consideration to English speaking Canadians as French speaking Canadians! All of Canada is bilingual except Quebec! Quebec somehow think THEY are special and more deserving, not just their language! When I see English speaking people being treated like dirt because they don't speak French, that to me is hate!! Sick and tired of the arrogance!!
What ? It is called respect ... your comments show you have no respect
born french canadian here and i hate QC more than anything, french language being pushed down my throat for no reason, i have no love for the language itself.
@@Definesleep938 I love Quebec, and I love that Canada is bilingual, but Quebec clearly wants no English in their province and bilingual everywhere else in Canada. It isn't protecting the French culture, it is rejecting all other, and making that the law! THAT IS DISGUSTING AND VERY UN-CANADIAN!!
it will hurt businesses that can't afford to accomodate. my small business can't afford to change the language on all of our packaging. they are shooting their self righteous selves in the pied,
Sorry for you if you don't know where your profits are by translating your products .
@@linefrenette9116 I think he knows where his profits come from better than you do, frogger!
I’ll be taking my winter vacay to Vermont from now on 😂
Quebec must not be as Louisiana.
Quebec French language is very much different from France's French language.
its better
They dont realize that its the english communitythat makes the french community quebecois, not french.("arret"dosent exist in france)
French language is declining all over the world. Native speakers are just 75 millions
Hi, many words are pronounced differently. ❤
And?
Already because of Quebec's education system, kids of immigrant's family are raised as Quebecois. The French protection system was already quite well established. Immigrant's 2nd generations are well blended into Quebec society, and english only speaking quebecors are getting disappearing. Judging even what language people are saying and communicating is a ridiculous idea. That's the law that make people hate each other as opposite to understand each other. We all know "6 month only" service is not at all the realistic idea, and this will create thousands of daily illegality. It may be good to create jobs for those who will watch what language people are speaking. But please use our taxes for meaningful things. I see this law is nothing different from what would happen by religion extremist or north Korea.
Very well put!
It's kind of funny that she use daycare as an example. Cause, you know why would I want my french kids to go to a english daycare service ? Isn't this the exact reason that validate those laws ?
don't send your kids to an english daycare. Why would you ban anglophones from having english daycares? You can't see how the government is taking away anglophones ability to support themselves?
@Marc-André Désilets You may not want to send your kids to an english daycare service because you want to limit your children's knowledge of languages to only Quebecois, and that is your perogative. However, the english daycare service can and will continue to be open for business in certain 'bilingual' towns.
I just read that, ' Under Quebec's new language law, Bill 96, municipalities could lose the right to communicate with residents in English if less than 50 per cent of the population has English as a mother tongue.'
The important part follows, 'However, the law allows cities already recognized as bilingual to preserve their status - even if their anglophone population drops below 50 per cent - by passing a resolution within 120 days of receiving notice from the province.' And, as only one example, ' ..., a town 40 kilometres east of Montreal, elected to keep its status despite having only 7.2 per cent of its citizens with English as a mother tongue. Scott Pearce, who represents mayors of bilingual towns at Quebec's federation of municipalities, said he wasn't at all surprised by the unanimous decision to remain bilingual. "It wasn't controversial in any of the places that I've spoken to," he said in a phone interview.' 😀
@mallafourmi8642 Some perspective would probably help you out here. Don't ignore the fact that most anglophones learn French organically. The ages when children are in daycare are so delicate, it plays a huge role in their ability to speak and understand a language as adults. I know a lot of francophones who sent their kids to school in English, and vice versa. The kids ended up needing speech therapy more often than not, and can't speak either language properly. They say things like "full of things," "devlopment," etc. So if there's a need for English daycare... why not?
Hi, I know I’m impolite, but I don’t want to change my behaviour. 😥 I prefer to answer in English. 😁
Quebec gov needs to take a study on language beginnings. Especially English. English being 40% French.
It's crazy that the government won't fund any opportunity for people to learn french but rather punishes those ones who don't speak the language. A great way to motivate people!
They have a free 10 week French language program. I’m about to take it this summer
I'm from Spain and we have regional languages that are co-official in their respective regions. Regional nationalist governments have for decades imposed laws to almost ban Spanish from their public administration, or at least to make it artificially look like a foreign language even though is the most used language... What has the result been so far? Well, actually Spanish not only keeps getting stronger regardless of their artificial measures, but normal people that are not nationalists have started to stop using their regional languages because they feel them now as a political tool. Something that for them was a culture treasure to keep feels like an forced thing that is always looking for disputes with part of their own identity (the Spanish side).
Catalan?
I am a French speaker, in Western AB.
If Quebec takes such measures to protect their culture, that happens to be partly mine, it encourages me to consider moving there. Because culture is ESSENTIAL. For the English speakers, a roll of toilet paper is essential. For me, for us, "que sommes-nous ?", "que voulons-nous être ?" are the essential questions.
Bonjour / Hi / Ney Ho / Chào, I know that's impolite, but, I don't want to change my behavior. I prefer answering in English : Nói Tiếng Anh.
Canadian constition should never have protected or allowed the Frennch language here. Nor for them to have their french catholic schools.
Learn French if moving to Quebec.
Is there just one dialect of French spoken in Quebec? Or are there many regional dialects that need to be learned as well?
Dialects don't really matter. Just the base language. Just as someone in Canada can understand someone from England or New Zealand. Communication is still fluent regardless of dialect
@@rickson50 But, ask a person from France to engage with a Quebecer - neither can understand the other. So WHICH French should be "protected"?
@@koda3967 That's such bullshit!! Of course there are different expressions some times.....but they can understand eachother, Just like if you talk to a Scotsman you might not understand absolutely every word he says, but you will understand him. Jezzz,,,,,did I really have to make this point. You're just raging ....
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@@WildMan576 I agree 100% that they don't like how each other sounds or slang. But as to understanding each other, I witnessed just such a situation between a tourist from France wanting to take up a conversation with a Quebecois speaking person. The sentence most often spoken by the Quebecois speaker during this intended conversation was, 'Je regrette mais je ne comprend pas.' Also of note, as experienced, Parisian French is habitually spoken very quickly which also impeded the intended communication.
I am not sure why Quebec or anywhere needs a language minister? English and French are both official languages of Canada. That said, either should be able to be freely used anywhere within the Canadian borders. It puts many people at a disadvantage. Facts show that it's much more difficult for adults to learn a language. It can be extremely difficult. It's best to learn at a very young age while young minds are still developing. This just seems like government overreach in my opinion by the Quebec government.
Immigration has always been a tool to assimilate québec in the rest of Canada. If the mass immigration impose by the federal was not so excessive, this law would not exist. Most of Québecois are bilingual and are very friendly helping people. But most of us are tired of the federal and their dirty skim to screw us.
Love one another as I have loved you. My langusge is gods gift to me. I love my English. My freedom.
this is outrageous!
As a french speaking citizen from Quebec, I must admit that, in my field of expertise, I've been forces to work in English for my whole life. You're in a meeting with 30 French employees and 3 english one, the whole meeting is going to be in english to accommodate them, and that, even if some french people in the team are not very good at English and have a very hard time understanding what's happening during the meeting. To have some laws to start to regulate french is a good practice, enabling people to speak in their native language in their own province is a good thing. I mean, when you receive official communication from your french company, that is adressed to french people and is written in english there's clearly an issue here.
By the way we have nothing against immigrant or english people we just want to be able to express ourself at work without having to think/translate in another language, that's pretty reasonable in my opinion.
You, sadly are in your own bubble thinking for your own benefit and not French society as a whole. Good luck to your society and the laws you create to exclude rather than include. Humans are such slow learners!
It is laughable to see unilingual Anglos so upset when I have learnt three languages and I want to learn a fourth.
@@northernsamba7388 IMHO It is the Québécois's current provincial government creating this dissention with a Bill that is stated necessary to protect the language, yet recent concensus reports state that speaking the french language in Québéc has risen over the past few years. And the Premier has already created a waiver to certain parts of the Bill for, get this --> Big business. Personally, I am very proud to be able to speak fluently, write and understand both Québécois French, Canadian French and Canadian English. I worked in the province of Quebec and never had any problems being served in French or English and attended meetings that were either bilingual, with interpreters or in French or English.
Kudos to you for learning other languages. I myself am brushing up on my Latin, still learning Spanish and am working on Gaelic. 😀
@@abalister6661 Merci de ton commentaire qui est très sensé, ce qui est assez rare sur ce mur de stupidité. I agree with you that Canadian bilingualism is a complete failure, it was never asked by Quebec, it was Trudeau's idea to shut down the independence mouvement in Quebec by pretending they could live in French anywhere in Canada ! What a complete pipe dream it was. Trudeau's idea failed completely. I totally understand English Canada's frustration with bilingualism since its absolutely no use to them, even if they send their kids to french immersion, no one ever gets to use French in real life outside Quebec so all that is learned is lost over time. Trudeau also impose multiculturalism to attack the Quebec Nation in trying to make French people one of 150 different Canadian communities instead of one of the two founding Nations (nowadays over 3 if we include the First Nations) like Quebec always viewed itself. Trudeau then imposed its constitution of 1982 and its gouvernement of the juges to counter the elected members of the Quebec parliament and this constitution was imposed against Quebec's will as we have never signed on the Canadian constitution. Can you imagine a country building itself against the will of the First Nations and against the will of it's biggest minority and founding community the French. Canada is a mess, never has been a true country like Quebec has always been and this is what pises off a big part of English Canada, they dont have a Nation and never will have one compared to the strong Nationhood sentiment of Quebecers. Things will get worst for Canda with the 100 million population project by the end of the century, this country will absolutely collapse into oblivion.
What a refreshing comment! But unfortunately, you speak for yourself in saying you have nothing against the English. A lot of Québecois do, and it's sad.
Oh Wow.
Thanks for the info.
Sounds like it's much easier just not to visit or go there at all.
Quebecistan.
Chinada😂
If you're so mad you can get out of our province
Cry more for your privileges angryphone. Quebec is not Quebecistan for that.
Stay mad for your privileges. It doesn't make Québec "Quebecistan". Where are the french services in the other provinces?
@@yannislaurin5438 why do you comment on two separate accounts loser?
Remove the bilingual signs in ontario and replace with english only. Having the French language along with English language is a waste of taxpayers dollars on the signage
Québec, the backrooms of Canada.
Quebec is like "hmmm how do we make everyone hate us even more"
Nope gouvernement is saying: how to make sure to keep them poor, dumb and no option of going anywhere else. We are the most taxed in the world with the worst services. Anyone with a brain is GTFO.
You always hated us😂
How about you stop copping that Québec want to protect his language?
@@yannislaurin5438 because the rest of Canada is forced to learn french in school when NOBODY uses it. Manufacturers are required to print everything in french and in English on all instructions. How about we drop all of that and just make the rest of the provinces english and quebec french
@@F4mis I do actually, speaking a language that isn't needed tho is a waste of time. English is used globally. If you want to be a pilot you HAVE to learn English. Quebec french is also very different from France french.
@@Teh_Random_Canadian How do you know it's not "needed"? It's a bad excuse to not learn the other official language.
That really funny because we quebecers we gonna do as we like from now on and there is nothing English poeple can do they can go to Ontario i guess but even that will make us happy
The things is that in Quebec the French is weird. It is hard to understand and communicate with Quebecers that speak with the weird accent different than the French From France. Usually immigrants study French from France. No books to learn the weird accent, though... The hardest will be for East Europeans, Asians because it is completely different from their native language and alphabet..and unlikely they study the weird accent in their native countries... :(
Yes, Quebec accent sounds funny, the word “fête” is pronounced “fight” ❤
There’s no such thing a weird accent. It’s just a different accent.
We live in Quebec, if everyone speaks with Quebec accent, it would be the best thing. Some Quebecers don’t understand French accent, French accent has already evolved. “son” and “sang” are almost pronounced in the same way, but here in Quebec, “sang” is pronounced with an open mouth. ❤
I find it hard to learn Quebec French , there is not enough content available on youtube to which I use to learn a language because I don't like being in a classroom but still want to learn french I know the French spoken in France is different and there is more content for France French then Quebec French, but they want ppl to speak Quebec French and how can I learn that when most apps are for metropolitan French tv shows and movies in French are mostly France French, so they want you to learn it and speak it how? when hardly nothing is available . they are making things more difficult then need be .
@@taijennex6829 Hard or easy, it’s a question of habit, but me, I speak with Quebec accent from childhood. ❤
Protecting the French Culture and language can only truly be done through inspiration, not oppression.
You should repeat it in English Canada, since they oppressed the French speakers and the First Nations for 2 centuries (Indian act, Residential schools + laws against French)
@@linefrenette9116 I don’t deny or condone what you are addressing, but my concern pertains to today, with all of Canada under the Official Languages Act. With French fluency now required in all provinces for certain jobs, even where minimally applicable, it seems out of balance that one province can penalize the other language, which remains an official language of Canada. I don’t know, so I am asking, do other provinces currently enforce penalties for use of the French language?
@@timothyjackson4653 they already did
@@linefrenette9116 Again, I do not condone or deny that. If what happened in other provinces can be regarded as disadvantageous and oppressive, should the same thing happen in Quebec? If the rest of Canada is expected to make provision for linguistic minorities why shouldn’t Quebec?
It seems that the comments following the coming into force of Quebec's Law 96 on the French language, the official language of Quebec, come mostly from English Canada. How is it affected by this provincial law? Canada is supposed to be an officially bilingual country, whereas only New Brunswick is and Quebec has French as its official language. This law aims to protect this language and the culture of the majority of Quebecers. It in no way discriminates against the English-speaking minority which, to this day, enjoys the same rights as the French-speaking majority, which finances through its taxes (among the highest in North America) its institutions, some of which are recognized worldwide, such as McGill University , for example. The rest of Canada is English-speaking and offers poor services to the French-speakers scattered across its territory, who are forced to be bilingual if they want to survive in this Anglo-Saxon sea that is North America. In other words, English Canada has nothing to teach Quebecers, who take better care of their English-speaking minority and the First Nations, exempted by this law, by the way. Finally, an Anglophone can live his whole life in Quebec without knowing a single word of French. Where is the discrimination denounced here?
Why protect any language?
@@operacarmen "Why protect any language?" Among 362 million English speakers (Canada, USA included) which language is threatened with extinction in the more or less long term? English? Surely not! French certainly if no measures are taken to protect it. Moreover, Bill 96, which recently came into force, is not sufficient to prevent the erosion of French to the benefit of English in the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec.
@@capricornebete-a-cornes8671 what happens if people stop speaking French in Canada? Imagine 20% of Canadians spoke Japanese and then they stopped speaking Japanese .. so what? The less languages the more united people are and easier to communicate and better for tourism and people become less prejudiced.. language is a just a f'ing TOOL of communication
@@operacarmen Your point of view is that of an ignorant Anglo-Saxon supremacist. Language is more than a means of communication between individuals. The first element of cultural identification of a nation is its language.
@@capricornebete-a-cornes8671 so you can't answer the question ..insults and attacking people won't hide your ignorance.
In quebec you have the freedom of speech as long as it spoken dans francais . The freedoms that once exsisted are no longer, bill 96 bill 21.
Will quebec have their own password!
Initially Health care were both excluded. It was excluded due to feminist considerations, but I will no be a surprise if they change back to include medical services.
Support Quebec's independence.
When you go to any other Canadian province you’re supposed to speak English, everything is written in English, classes given in English, contracts written in English, etc. even thought Canada is a bilingual country and French is a national language. Then why should Québec be different?! Why shouldn’t everything be in French in Québec and people have to do everything in French just like people have to do everything in English in other parts of the country?
That is the clearest example of the English speakers’ mindset of « you have to speak English over here but I don’t have to speak your language over there »
As for learning the language, everybody can learn a middle level of French enough for daily conversation, understanding TV and reading newspaper/contracts in 6 months without even having to study hardly by being in a French speaking environment.
Because in the ROC there have been tiny corners of French language. Many francophones who leave now are newer immigrants. The English speaking community in Quebec is MUCH larger comparatively AND have been there since the FRENCH fled North America and left their colonist cousins behind. Thats well over 200 years there has been a substantial english presence. NO ONE is saying that the Quebec Frenchies MUST be anglophones; but respect the large minority of anglos that have lived amongst you since your arriere arriere arriere arriere grand-pere was alive.
@@inconnu4961If the Anglo-Canadian majority want respect from the French-speaking minority, then stop the Quebec Bashing the anglos have been practicing since 1763
Illegal. Based on Canadian Federal law, All Canadian citizens have the right to be served in all government related services in both English and French regardless of the province. Government needs to get involved and find a legal way to protect the French language in Quebec. This is illegal.
order out of chaos
English is 40% French. Get it.
Inclusivity is probably just a joke for these people😂
Thank god i dont live in quebec its not a place i want to live...this means that those with learning delays or other forms of inabilities to learn french or any other language (like myself and my autistic daughter) are in deep trouble...bad enough you enforce it in schools now but i mean being able to work based on language compacitiy and Canada as a whole is BILINGUAL you want to cut ties with everything else diverse including now language?? What is wrong with them...french is still doing fine as far as im concerened and also many fench speaking canadians where im from blantantly on purpose speak in frnch to those in english and not able to understand so this is painting a little bit of scrutiny farther than need be...wow...i hope this flops bad enough they revoke it...not the way to go at all quebec you will lose residence if things go bad enough....
Federal gov need to step in and abolish this
They won't, ever, they want French votes.
Abolish it how? Most of it is on perfectly legal grounds. This in many ways is how Manitoba gained their anglophone majority when it was created to be bilingual back in the late 19th century!
Now the group "Make Canada Great Again" will have more reasons to want to kick Quebec out of Canada.
It funny because Quebec's the provincial GDP in 2021 was C$504,5 billion, making Quebec the second largest economy in Canada. Quebec is a huge tax payer for the country.
Ok, Do you think Canada regrets that they have stole our referendum?
@@cybermad64 and the largest receiver of transfer payments .
CBC Reporter Hillary Johnstone does not speak ONE word of French. And she works for a national broadcaster.
Answer in English : Nói Tiếng Anh
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我理解，但我不同意。
Verum pro mendaciis scribendis dicere debes.
IF the Quebec government implements this then the federal government should remove the mandatory bilingualism law. The west speaks English!
Maybe you need some history lessons to understand why Quebec still speak french.
@@cybermad64 |That is irrelevant to the rest of Canada . The rest of us speak English .
@@cybermad64 I quite know why they speak french but they are denying English speaking their right to speak in the other "official" language.
@@cybermad64 Abandonne! A lire ces commentaires , je constate que rien ne changera J'ai passé 30 ans dans RCAF a me battre . .cause perdue!
@@dennis2376 👍
This is Ethnic Cleansing and will Force out anyone who is an immigrant or not French.
I worked in Trucking companies for decades and moved a lot of people from Quebec who said they were forced out of the "community" ... They all told the same stories of being Shunned.
It really and truly is!
Hahahaha, good old Liberal believes... cmon...
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Mon deus tabernac.
This can be discriminatory.
Quebec is a culture and with all do respect keep the language its there culture to many ppl not speaking french or english i respect the quebec plus stop taking there country they are loosing there country and launguage i respect this its wieber simple as that its always been french keep it that way
It goes both ways. I am from Alberta. I live and grew up with Bilingual signs.
Theirs. Not there. Like. Oh look over there. There is something.
Also, why is Bloc Quebecous or whatever part of National Politics when all they do is spew hatred to the rest of the country and seperation.
Quebec needs to get it act together.
@@CDNPsyChoPath The Bloc & Parti Kwebecwas are to Kebek, what the NDP is to the ROC. They are the nutters. They are the ones searching for something to be offended about and stoke everyone's bad nature for their personal benefit .
Don't worry because Trudeau wants to spend 4 BILLION dollars on language
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Answer in English : Nói Tiếng Anh