RUEZ RUEZ:
Here's an example that I can think of that might fit. In Quebec, they clamp down on who can take English schooling. Now they want to clamp down even further. Yet in BC, the furthest province from Quebec every year they are opening more and more French immersion schools. The only thing that keeps a student from attending is available space. Quebecers need to face the facts, English is the language. You might be able to slow it's spread but you won't stop it, and ignoring that is just hurting your province.
But that just comes back to my original point. How would we, as English-speakers, react if we were just bluntly told that French is the language and we should just learn to speak it and shut up, even in the only province where we were the majority? Should we just give up our language and everything related to it if our province was an English-speaking majority? Again, just how differently would Alberta, Ontario or Nova Scotia react if they were in that position?
As for clamping down on who can take English schooling, the problem is that Quebec now has to figure out how to maintain both its French character while also accommodating the English minority in its midst. Guys like René Lévesque and Claude Ryan have tried to strike a better balance, but unfortunately the radical jackasses, the "Patriote" types who protest on Canada Day, end up hijacking the process and tar everyone in Quebec with the same brush. Same thing with bilingualism in the public service-it ends up being taken too far, as Andyt suggested in another thread.
As an Albertan, I know the feeling, particularly when everyone in my province ends up looking like greedy pricks who don't care about the environment or helping the rest of Canada just because of the actions of a few assholes.
saturn_656 saturn_656:
That's the way its supposed to be. The other nine provinces are supposed to be good little troopers and bring in bilingualism to their governments, schools, etc all while Quebec continues to wage its war against English.
Quebec is the only province that is officially unilingual.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Quebec is the only province that is unilingually French. Most of the other provinces are unilingually English, including my home province of Alberta. New Brunswick is the only bilingual province.
The catch with bilingualism is the fact that, without it in all the provinces, what you end up with is basically a call for English-speaking Quebecers to receive special treatment available to no one else in Canada. One linguistic minority still ends up getting favored over all others in Canada, only the special treatment stands out even further than bilingualism supposedly does.
Gunnair Gunnair:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Then why care anymore. If both sides are all disgruntled and up-in-arms over it, maybe seperation is the best choice for both sides.
I think that's what many have been saying here.
I think what this really indicates is just how deeply entrenched the misunderstanding on both sides has gotten over the last 30 years. Both sides actually have a lot of valid points, but how many of us have actually tried to see the other side's point of view. Francophone Quebecers aren't necessarily any better in this regard-how many of them have tried to see just why so many of us are fed up with the issue?
There's actually much more to the issue than most people realize, and I plan to address it at a future date.
For now, though, let me summarize it all by saying something that I'm sure many of you will agree with me on, even if you haven't agreed with anything else so far:
If this country breaks up, it's going to be because of Pierre Trudeau.
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