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And forcing a language on people does nothing to preserve a culture. It just makes them learn and speak the language. The culture will still eventually die out to be replaced with another, homologated culture which is exactly what I have been saying. The language laws will do nothing at all in...

That's because it's illegal to great a customer in English first in Quebec even if you hear them speaking English to their friends beforehand. This can lead to complaints to the OQLF by a customer who witnesses it and lead to fines from the language police. And of course, all such complaints may...

In the name of economic survival and growth. We currently live in the highest taxed jurisdiction in North America and we have the most government waste. There is no sign that that will change anytime soon. That is unacceptable. Language laws have aided in keeping our economy down and as a result...

As long as they don't say "Hi, Bonjour" because then someone will complain to the Apostrophe SS, otherwise know as the OQLF because it is an insult and a provocation if French is not presented first. :cool: I've always wondered how the Greeks feel about the language of the Olympic Games being...

I still have that issue along with the next issue. Interesting thing is that in the following issue there was a letter to the editor complaining about how they didn't talk about how Montreal was a French city and that most people here lived in French. It wasn't enough that they had published a...

What's insulting is the idea of immigrants being expected to give up their own culture and mother tongue to adopt ours. I guess that's to be expected of a culture that only goes back a couple of hundred years as opposed to thousands of years when talking about Arab, Asian, Greek, Jewish and...

The law is not necessary to protect the Quebecois culture because no law is capable of protecting it. All the law does is provide a false sense of security. Only the people who are part of a culture can ensure it's survival by having children. Eventually the 'French face' of Montreal will be as...

OK, sapman, find me one instance where I said I wanted Bill 101 abolished? I don't. I have no problem with requiring French to be on all business signs, even being predominant. Not necessarily twice the size though, but predominant. I also believe that all public signs that deal with public...

Have you even bothered to read anything I have linked to? I don't have to characterize them as bigots and racists, they are doing a good enough job of it themselves. You have the Mayor of Saguenay with his bigotted comments about a Parti Quebecois candidate. You have Pauline Marois herself with...

Very nice party line response. You should be a politician. You still fail to address the lack of freedom of choice of education of the native French populace of Quebec. You also fail to mention the fact that due to these limitations the English public school system in Quebec is vanishing at a...

It's a choice? Really? I don't remember being asked if I was in favour of the language laws. In fact, hundreds of French families have gone to court to try and win the right to educate their children in English and were refused so I guess it wasn't their choice either. I cannot imagine any...

WRONG! Immigrants cannot send their children to English public schools. And if Marois has her way, that will be extended to private schools as well as CEGEP. You just contradicted your first point in your third. Besides the fact that your point is incorrect. French may have fallen behind in...

You really don't get sarcasm do you? By the way, I really don't give a damn about what some businessman said in 1962. It's amazing how you try to use this statement to counter all the racist comments being made TODAY by Quebec politicians. Let me spell it out for you in big letters so you will...

Were you around at that time? Maybe he was stating a fact and there was no French-Canadian who was competent enough to do that job at the time. I'm sure there were probably a lot of people of both languages who lacked the requirements. I don't know about you, but when I look for an employee I...

Cultures and languages that are supported by the people of that culture will survive. If they don't, that's their own fault. I don't give a damn about what happened in decades or centuries past. I don't live in the past, I live in the now and want to move into the future. People are supposed to...

Merlot...we no longer live in the same world we did two hundred or one hundred or even 25 years ago. Statements from the past no longer apply. Today we live in a connected world where immigrants can easily remain in contact with friends and family they left behind. These ties ensure that they...

Jean Charest is a terrible Premier of Quebec. Unfortunately he's the best of a bad bunch. No one can be a good Premier of Quebec as long as they have to constantly cater to the paranoid xenophobes in this province. And you'll notice that I said 'Premier' not 'Prime Minister'. That's because...

Here's a few links for you EB so you can catch up on what's going on. http://www.cjad.com/CJADLocalNews/entry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10416786 http://www.cjad.com/CJADLocalNews/entry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10415191 http://www.cjad.com/CJADLocalNews/entry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10415573 Yes, such an...

Why don't you ask yourself why Bill 101 isn't enforced in Chinatown? The only language they have anything against, the language they fear, is English. They won't allow French parents to send their kids to school in the language of their choice while English parents can send their kids to English...

The problem with the fear mongering of the PQ and other separatist parties is that no matter what policies or laws they put into force, they have absolutely no possibility of preserving the French Quebecois culture. All they do is make people speak French. As long as Quebec is dependant on...