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Title: British names on street signs grate in Montreal
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: SigPig
Date: 2009-08-12 06:58:44
Canadian

[commanderkai]

*Bangs head on my table* I swear to God Quebec, you're fucking pathetic.

[Choban]

I think his priorities are all F%^ked up, the sad thing is that he will probably get sympathy votes for this. I would want my cities councillors to worrya bout something that actually is an issue instead of trying to lure in voters.

[Regina]

Stupid pricks have too much money and too much time on their hands.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Oh oh, they better start changing the English names of all those towns in Quebec too. LIke Drummondville, Victoriaville, Hull, New Richmond, etc etc. Better replace those Indian place names too.
I'll tell you where it got real stupid. Years ago when Disney re-released Cinderella, the powers that be in Quebec had to have the name changed to Cendrillon.
How the HELL do you frenchify a totally fictitious, made up name??
It's gone beyond paranoia and has turned into some sort of language fascism.
Truly pathetic.

[PENATRATOR]

Terrible stuff. They wonder why Canada paint Quebec with the same brush when these kind of attention whores are making national news making the entire province look bad. Get over it. History has been written, you peole have lost 2 referendums, stop stirring the pot. How about dealing with Montreals homeless people and underprivlidged children living at or below the poverty line first?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

PENATRATOR PENATRATOR:

How about dealing with Montreals homeless people and underprivlidged children living at or below the poverty line first?

What? And take precious time and resources away from the language nazis
who are working so hard to keep Quebec safe from the English language?
How dare you even suggest such a thing PENATRATOR, shame shame

[Praxius]

$1:

Darren Becker, a spokesman for the City of Montreal, said the city is focusing its time on infrastructure and public transit, not "rewriting history."

"If no one seconds [the motion] it won't be debated and I can tell you that it certainly won't be seconded by anyone from the mayor's party or team," Mr. Becker said.

All of Montreal's streets adhere to the city's charter, which stipulates that words such as road and street must be in French. But "the street names in Montreal reflect the history of the city," said Mr. Becker. "The names date back to when there were French and English mayors, that's just a reality."

He pointed to the flag of Montreal, which is adorned with four emblems reflecting the "founding fathers" of the city: the fleur-de-lys for France, the shamrock for Ireland, the thistle for Scotland and the red rose of Lancaster for England.

There you have it, case closed.

The idiot who thought this up should be fired from whatever job he holds for such a complete waste of time.

Or better yet, maybe Canada should just invade Quebec again, lay the smack down on them all and rename Quebec "English Land" and force them all to adopt English, change all their road signs to English, make it maditory to speak english or not get a job, and have the English police all over their asses in everything they do.

Let's see how they like the shoe on the other foot for once.

I tell ya.... give an inch....

[PENATRATOR]

"English Land"

Crack me up

[Praxius]

PENATRATOR PENATRATOR:

Terrible stuff. They wonder why Canada paint Quebec with the same brush when these kind of attention whores are making national news making the entire province look bad. Get over it. History has been written, you peole have lost 2 referendums, stop stirring the pot. How about dealing with Montreals homeless people and underprivlidged children living at or below the poverty line first?

Naw, they're all English people/families who can't land a job, they're not covered

[Proculation]

From what I've read yesterday in a French newspaper, the main problem is because of whom Amherst represents: the Conqueror of Montreal and one of the first to use biological warfare against the Natives.

[Choban]

Proculation Proculation:

From what I've read yesterday in a French newspaper, the main problem is because of whom Amherst represents: the Conqueror of Montreal and one of the first to use biological warfare against the Natives.

Yah and the French never commited any crimes against the natives.
If this was the argument then fine, it is only 1 part of it though, he's talking more streets than just Amherst.

[EyeBrock]

Quebec, just go and leave us in peace.

[Praxius]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

Quebec, just go and leave us in peace.

Yes, leave us in peace, sperate the Maritimes from the rest of Canada so then we have a good excuse to leave the country too and either become our own little nations, join the US, join Quebec or join back with the UK.... I'm sure the UK would love to have a decent foothold in the Americas again.

Makes sense afterall..... ever notice how so many bands and artists decide to do a "Cross Canada" tour.... which only starts in Quebec and then goes west? WTF are the maritimes?

Besides, most in the rest of Canada consider the Maritimes as unemployment suck holes who are too lazy to work and a burden to the rest of the nation (Even though most of our work force headed to the oil sands simply to make a living, whom then are the first to be booted when times get tough)

Then again, the West is constantly complaining about central Canada all the time, so it would seem that everybody has plenty to complain about everybody in the nation over one thing or another.

[EyeBrock]

Prax, I think the Canada is as much on the UK's radar as the UK is on Canada's.

There is no thirst for a 'foothold' in the America's. Canada takes more immigrants from small islands in the Carribean than it does from the UK. Trudeau severed any remaining ties to the UK decades ago.

Quebec is a reluctant member of the federation at best, anti-Canadian at worst.
There is no movement in the Atlantic Provinces to leave Canada so it's not an equitable comparison.
The Newfies were rightly pissed off at some of the royalty issues such as Churchill Falls that they got shafted on, and they were not happy at the Feds mismanagement of the fisheries, but there's no active 'seperation' party and other provinces are not represented in the Federal parliament by a party that only represents a provinces interests over the other parts of Canada.

The grumblings from the West hardly compares with decades, nay centuries of hostility the inhabitants of New France have shown to Canada, despite billions poured into there and the Feds bending over backwards to accomodate them.

They are a nation in all but name anyway.

Let them go and leave us in peace or stop the incessant whining and truly become part of Canada.