19 Replies to “Depends On Who You Ask”

  1. Of course it’s a myth. The purpose of bilingualism was to politicized the federal civil service.

    1. Yes,that exactly what the first comment at that article says. We all knew that. It pisses me off to no end that SCC Judges are limited to those who are fluent in french and slightly fluent in English, along with the fact that political leaders must speak French or be dismissed as a serious candidate.

      The “tail” has wagged the dog long enough. Hold a Canada -wide referendum on Quebec separation,please.

  2. Wow, it seems whomever runs the social media mediums for the Toronto Police is dumber than a box of rocks. If they don’t charge Rebel News with a hate crime….then the Toronto police have opened themselves up to libel.

  3. Bilingualism is one of the pillars of power for the Frenchies.
    Radical Frenchies wanted national seperation and Moderate Frenchies wanted rule within the nation (as if they’re benevolent).

  4. “Bilingualism & Biculturalism” from Pierre Trudeau quickly led to “multiculturalism” and the tribal sentiments we see today are the consequences. Canada’s worst export. All thanks to Quebec.

  5. Official Bilingualism was specifically designed to give advantages to Quebecers in the federal civil service. After all, if you were bilingual in English and German it didn’t count for your KPIs.

    1. A relative of mine was once a CO of a military recruiting centre years ago. At a meeting of the recruiting centre CO’s in Ottawa, the question was raised why although francophones and anglos took the same tests, the pass marks for francophones were lower than for anglos. The answer was simply “cultural differences”. DEI was alive and well many years ago in Canada.

  6. A known fact 40 years ago.
    “It’s a big club and you’re not in it”!
    Free the West.

  7. Lived in Ottawa all my life and upon retirement moved to the east coast. What Quebec wants is for English Canada to be bilingual. And since Quebec is a nation within a nation, bilingualism does not apply to them.

    I’ve driven many times across Quebec and there’s not one English traffic sign to be found on the trans-Canada Highway (highway 20 in QC). Even temporary flashing signs warning motorist of a danger ahead are in French only.

    While Quebec bitches and hollers about the lack of French schools outside their ‘nation’, within it’s own border, you must obtain permission from the government to send your children to an English school. https://educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/access-to-english-schools-in-quebec/

    And, while driving across their ‘nation’, if you end up getting a traffic related ticket from the Surete, it will be printed in French only.

    1. Don’t go thru Queerbec. Assuming travel from Kingston to Halifax, it’s only two hours longer through the States, gas is cheaper, the people are so much nicer and you can read the road signs.

  8. One Alberta Quebecois told me that French in Quebec think Albertans hate them when his experience was that Albertans simply couldn’t give a shit whether they live or die.

    I took French up to first year university because I imagined myself as some kind of academic. I could carry on a half assed conversation at the time but it went away through lack of practice. I have wished I knew how to shoe horses. Since I was a kid I haven’t wished I knew how to speak French.

  9. In the early Sixties, some fool in the BC government decided it would be a good idea if everybody in high school learned French. In my rural and isolated school, NONE of the teachers spoke the language, so the call went out, to be answered by my aunt, who was the daughter of Scottish immigrants. She did a year of summer school, and was pronounced qualified.
    I took FR 10, and compounded the injury by having to take FR 20. Then I went off to University, where I found I was expected to sign up for FR 100.
    The instructor for FR 100 was a gentleman from the French Alps, who explained that Parisian French was a travesty, and Quebec Patois even worse. In our first lesson, he asked each of us in the class to read a paragraph from the textbook. When it was my turn, I did my very best, but after about four sentences, the instructor interrupted with, “ Monsieur, you read French like a Scottish tourist.”

    2. That’s awesome. Good story.

      I grew up with them and count many of them dear friends, but Quebecois really does sound buffoonish. Acadian is preposterous.

  10. I mostly agree with everything above. My French Canadian sister in law had a conniption when I spoke out against “official” bilingualism. I have nothing against actual bilingualism, however. Or trilingualism etc. Happily my brother came to his senses.
    The last time I was in Montreal, I rode the Metro and all signs, ads and announcements were in French. They don’t even care about tourists. Isn’t that official unilingualism?

  12. Government policy is the term used when they impose a right that by nature does not exist.
    Its purpose was a payoff to the Quebec political class that still labours under the 17th century idea of the Canadas being a 50-50 power sharing agreement between the British colonies and the Montreal establishment.
    There are two solutions to this.
    Electing majority governments that don’t have any MP’s from Quebec
    Or
    Dissolve the border and become part of the US.
    Oh there is a third option
    The next time they have a referendum they vote yes and just leave.

    1. The next time they have a referendum, ask the entire country if they should leave…

      1. “The next time they have a referendum, ask the entire country if they should leave…”

        My thoughts as well. Can you picture the outrage if any government even suggested it, though?

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