Read the whole thing.
Montreal Gazette- French-language inspectors are cracking down on Montreal hospitals
Language inspectors from the Office québécois de la langue française are expanding the range of their inspections beyond businesses and are now targeting hospitals in the Montreal area, even going so far as to verify whether French is being spoken in operating rooms, The Gazette has learned.
At the rate we are importing Muslims, it will not be long before Arabic will have a foothold as an official language, never mind French. How is Quebec going to deal with that?
It is well past time to give Quebec the boot, enough is enough
Canada is not a serious country.
One of the biggest changes in my personal thinking during the Covid lockdown was going from believing – as I was brought up to think – that Quebec leaving Confederation would be a National Tragedy, to thinking that it might not be a bad idea after all.
And if Canadians – as I’ve noted in this comment section before – frequently come across as a ridiculous, ressentiment-addled little people, then the Quebecois – who, despite their pride in their progressivism and press-on modernity, are only a scant few generations removed from one of the most docile, childlike, obedient, Quietistic (look it up) volk to ever inhabit the earth – are an even more-ridiculous, more ressentiment-addled, even smaller people (“un petit peuple ridicule”).
The Rest of Canada (ROC) should make their ultimatum clear: Quebec needs to be re-imagined along more free-market, Anglo-Saxon-style capitalist lines, or it must leave.
Who’s with me?
The idea has merit. First, a national referendum excluding Quebec on the proposition and if affirmed, Quebec has their say which would almost certainly be to leave. Given Canada’s decline, i doubt that the proposition would pass.
When it comes to language paranoia, Quebec is into old style fascism. To me, Quebec has always seemed like Canada’s largest and most populous Indian Reserve. It’s an ethnic ghetto in a time warp of marinating in collective resentment, grievance, bigotry, and entitlement. It warrants discriminatory political, constitutional and state supplied fiscal favour. They both require state coercion to protect their cultural inheritance. They both relish in their enslavement of Canadian taxpayers and are averse to the notion of free will and equality under the law.
Well said. VERY well said
And like a reserve, usurps the money of the rest of the federation that supports it, to remain a ghetto, by dumping other peoples money over the wall! They have all the requirements for a prosperous nation that could stand on its own, if the people wanted to work towards the goal of self sufficiency, that is.
As Always, socialism works best using other peoples money, Quebec has it down to a science.
Would be interesting to see how they would deal with the Native issues, as they own most of the land there!
French is a dying language. If it were not, then Quebec would not need laws to protect it.
It is a bloated language that takes up too much space in print and requires oral gymnastics to speak it …
Also, the irritating use of masculine/feminine identifiers is simply more bloat and some would say inappropriate in the face of the current gender-wars that are raging. :0)
What makes a pen, feminine and a bureau, masculine anyway.
This sort of thing is the -inevitable- outcome of socialism. There is nothing that will not be subject to microscopic level government intervention. Nothing.
Unless you pay off the inspector. In that case there is no intervention at all, no matter how sore the need for it. China, in a nutshell.
That’s likely what they’re hoping for here. A little payola to grease the skids, let things slide along more smoothly.
Bonjour. Vous avez rejoindre l’hopital St. Gaston du Peanut.
Apuillez sur le numero Un pour le Francais
Appuilez sur le numero deux pour mange de la merde.
My local Treasury Branches make choose fwench or English before I can proceed with my transaction. Those would be the ALBERTA TREASURY BRANCHES, all for inclusivity I assume!
The rot not only continues in this country, but is spreading.
Remember when ATCs in Montréal refused to speak English?
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/07/28/The-use-of-French-in-air-traffic-communication-over/4009365140800/
You beat me to it! I am in the aviation industry and was in Quebec as late as 2018, on official business, I was surprised to hear french being spoken over official frequencies and wondered how non french speaking people managed in that airspace, I thought it was dangerous and disingenuous, as the OFFICIAL language of communication in aviation (ICAO) is ENGLISH, worldwide!
This was at CYUL in Montreal..
I’m glad I can speak French, but I found this a little bit much..
Yes, its for non-instrment flights (VFR), but thats when you need verbal communication the MOST, because it is uncontrolled and you are relying on pilots reporting things for situational awareness!
What’s a few dead air passengers when Quebecois culture and language is at stake? ROC will be expected to pay for the resulting lawsuits.
Sort of Related: the tongue troopers are nothing new.
1957 Stan Freberg – Elderly Man River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNQlD6nWGXk