So, this is a revenge bill?
Not entirely, and not necessarily by design. However, historically, both here and elsewhere, where there has been a pattern of systemic oppression, when that system is discarded, residual resentment always carries over as it has here. Right or wrong, it's human nature and it simply goes with the territory.So, this is a revenge bill?
Quebec is more than 3/4 french speaking so... french is THE predominent language used. If Canadians and Feds wants to cry babies then let them...
Canada is supposed to be billingual. The day both French and English will be used equally d'un Ocean a l'autre... I will support putting everything in both language equally in Quebec.
Til then, let the hypocrites have a nice fit !To anyone who wants to complain about Quebec I say 'STFU'. :lol::lol::lol:
Et de quel genre de crise d'identité veux-tu parler exactement, Mike? Il a été prouvé par multiples essais scientifiques que le cerveau pubescent, spécifiquemment entre de 4 a 10 ans a la meilleure des capacités pour absorber toutes sortes d'informations que ce soit apprendre la musique, les mathématiques et, oui, apprendre d'autres langues que notre langue maternelle.Tech : Most people WILL spend they life working in quebec.... Is it important to have a base in other language if you travel? Yeah of course... dosen't mean we need to master the language though. And again... touristy places usually are very accomodating when it comes to serving clients in there language. I think teaching kids too young cause identity crisis. For exemple one of my friend, he is french speaking and all, yet when i hear his little bothers talking in the back (in the xbox mic) they always talk in english, yet he answer them in french and they understand. So now because they learn it young they are using it more than the french... They are in Gatineau so close to ontario but still... Would i be my friend i would say "parle moi en francais, on est au quebec icitte".
Faut adorer ce dernier commentaire. Tu serais totalement a l'aise au États-Unis dans les rangs des membres du TEA PARTY, ils sortent des phrases exactement comme celles-la...Bon, bien tu est pret a dire au ''english'' de plier baggages si ils ne sont pas content du présent statut quo...James : LOL what does building and such have to do in this.. if there something i am NOT for fulling a city til its overcharge. There is enough people already in montreal, enough traffic, enough crazy stuff going on... I couldn't care less toronto get bigger, or welcome everybody... Quantity dosen't equal Quality, and thats why i will always prefer small towns to the big city for living.... For all i care, if the english speakers don't like the current quebec, the laws such, you are free to leave, and as you say in english, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
La Marois, elle etait PRO- les petits carrés rouges?!? Pardonnes-moi pendant que je ris, Mike, tu n'es vraiment pas sérieux pour écrire une telle affaire, non? Ben voyons don', prends tu le temps de lire et t'informer avant de faire des déclarations pareilles? Va voir sur l'internet, quand Marois était la ministre de l'éducation il y a bien des années, elle était totalement pour une augmentation des frais de scolarités, pareil comme ceux qui avaient failli passer l'année derniere. Mais contrairement a Jean Charest, Marois n'avais aucun courage dans sa propre législation et a battu retraite des la menace de demonstrations par les étudiants. Et oh, quelle surprise, Marois propose a nouveau de faire monter les frais de scolarités en ce moment...And on your last thought, too bad for you if you see the french protection politics as racism or whatever. But just to say i didn't vote for Marois, as she was pro red square and i despise the movement, i voted for Option National, even if i knew the chance to win was 0. But in any case on what she does NOW for this particular bill, i aprove yes. And i don't think its racist or whatever. Its just protecting our heritage.
Rewinded : To speak french you don't have to write it perfectly. And i never said i was for the big complicated french some people who like to "peter plus haut que le trou" do sometimes. I speak quebec french, thats includes tabarnak, criss, osti and all the other traditional words. Even anglicisms are ok for me, as the english also use french words anyway(rendez-vous for exemple) , as long as its french in substance, its fine with me. English is so easy overall and so simple, people that were born and raised in it HAVE to pass it without problem... French sometimes is overly complicated for nothing especially on the writing, and i am also in favor to simple it and all. So yes i want to protect french, but the french we speak, us the normal people, not the overly complicated for nothing french they want to teach in school that NOBODY exept maybe so President of a compagny use, not even people from france.If there something, there french is even more "butchered" as some would say, than ours. I was watching a french movie yesterday and in part i had to rewind to understand...
The problem I have with you, Merlot, is that you never pick a side. You always sit on the fence, trying to find good on both sides.
As I clearly stated in my initial post two pages ago, I support some of the language laws, some of them I don't and I find some of them self-defeating.
........................, from separatists in Quebec, to KKK leaders to Nazis to Sarah Palin.
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If I judge you by your actions, I would say that you would be able to find the good in anyone, from separatists in Quebec, to KKK leaders to Nazis...
Comparing Separatists to KKK or Nazis?
Aren't you going a little too far?
Comparing Separatists to KKK or Nazis?
Aren't you going a little too far?
Et bien pour t'en apprendre, Mike, moi-même et bien de gens de ma connaissance qui sont francophones de souche , NOUS, nous ne sommes pas content de la nouvelle ronde de lois répressives que nous tentons d'avoir au Québec.
Tu vas nous dire a nous de partir au plus criss' , alors? J'attends ta réponse avec grand intéret...
I kind of want to thank Hollow Mike myself for his having switched to French in this thread. Now I'm spared his xenophobic rants.S'il te plaît Alyssa, n'utilises pas Hollow Mike comme exemple d'un homme. J'ai arrêté pas mal au début de cette discussion d'avoir une discussion avec lui.
Posted By: Angelica Montgomery [email protected] • 3/20/2013 8:29:00 PM
Language minister Diane De Courcy compared central Quebec's English public schools to bridging schools and roundly rejected arguments to maintain an exemption that, the board says, is necessary for the survival of its schools.
School board officials looked shocked and shaken as they listened to the minister during the National Assembly's public hearings on bill 14. They are fighting to keep an exemption that allows military families to go to English schools.
"(The arguments) I've heard since the beginning on their surface, do not hold up," said language minister Diane De Courcy.
The board, which teachers children in Quebec city and the Saguenay, will lose 700, or 16 % of its enrolment.
But De Courcy argues that despite the already small size of the schools, none will have to close.
The Dollard-des-Ormeaux elementary school, she says, will drop from 427 to 173 students.
Another school, Everest, will go from nearly 400 students to 76. The Valcartier school will have just 18 students left.
De Courcy says this is all within the realm of acceptable. "I cannot say at this stage that there are threats of closure," she said.
The board's president, Stephen Burke, looked heart broken. "Losing 20 % of our school clientele. I don't see but what magic of mathematics. I'm a trained actuary. I don't see how I'll be able to continue like I am," he said.
Information Sheet
De Courcy also produced an information sheet that she said she had just gotten that same day, on the impact of the bill 14's removal of the exemption of military families.
It said the children do not transfer outside of Quebec. "The majority of them will finish their schooling in Quebec," it says, while giving no numbers.
The minister had previous said she did not know the statistics and school board says it has never seen any such figures.
The sheet also compares the exemption to bridging schools. "The French language is not under threat because 700 children go to English school," it says.
But, it argues that a person should not attain a right that others don't have, either because of their job or revenue.
Of course the PQ is not doing any of this out of spite or just to hurt people. Clearly it is necessary to punish these parents and students. I'm sure the thought has crossed their narrow minds that these students could very likely fail their school year when they cannot understand a word of French once they arrive from another province. Does it matter that these kids will be held back a year or more? Obviously not to the PQ.
I'm not pushing anything. If a kid comes to Quebec from another province where French education is practically non-existant, and is stuck going to a French school, what are his/her chances of succeeding?