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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2010 3:56 pm
 


I can bet you a lot. Quebec politics is not something we see often on Canadaka. But I'm in it everyday.


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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2010 4:54 pm
 


Proculation Proculation:
I can bet you a lot. Quebec politics is not something we see often on Canadaka. But I'm in it everyday.


Then you're a better man than I, Gunga Din. [B-o]


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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2010 4:59 pm
 


BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Proculation Proculation:
I can bet you a lot. Quebec politics is not something we see often on Canadaka. But I'm in it everyday.


Then you're a better man than I, Gunga Din. [B-o]

I know more about Quebec than you, that's all :!:


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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2010 7:02 pm
 


Proculation Proculation:
I can bet you a lot. Quebec politics is not something we see often on Canadaka. But I'm in it everyday.


If I ever run for Prime Minister, would you like to be my special envoy to Quebec? :wink: :P


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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2010 8:24 pm
 


Sovereignists have always touted separation as the panacea to all that ails Quebec. It's an illogical argument, because after separation, Quebec's problems will not magically disappear. They'll still be there, only with a slew of newer, bigger problems that come along with being an independent country.

That being said, it doesn't mean it won't ever happen. I think it would be a sad thing, but even sadder is the predictability of it all.

Quebec nationalism had to happen, as it is a logical defence mechanism of an old society struggling to modernise and stay relevant without disappearing, on a continent where nobody else speaks its language, in a country that only began to half-way care after twice coming to the brink of break-up. And still nothing has really changed. Constitutionally, we're still where we were 30 years ago.

Quebeckers, even if they're to remain in Canada, will never become too comfortably Canadian again, lest they should end up like their francophone cousins in the rest of Canada. Even in neighbouring Ontario and NB, where many communities are majority French, we've already seen what being Canadian has brought to the French-speakers in these provinces: a life in translation, a death-bound, denatured, grammatically incorrect French unfit for a life beyond one's own front door.

But I for one hope that Quebec will stick around to fight the good fight to assure that Canada stays, at least in the eyes of part of the world, a francophone country.


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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 3:33 am
 


BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Even if Quebec separates they will still:
* Insist that Canada pay their bills.
* Insist that they have the right to blame Canada for all of their problems.
* Insist that bilingualism remain the law in Canada all while they predictably engage in an anti-Anglophone pogrom.


Quebeckers couldn't give two shits if you speak Pekenese outside of the province... the issue ( you seem to miss) is that we protect the french language, which is the official language of Québec and must be spoken in business etc. Bilingualism was the feds, not Québec.... get over it!


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so if it was 'the feds' that forced this dam bilingualism down your throat lets do away with it. You can keep it in Qc, but lets not force the rest of the nation to put it on our cereal boxes.


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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 4:56 pm
 


uwish uwish:
so if it was 'the feds' that forced this dam bilingualism down your throat lets do away with it. You can keep it in Qc, but lets not force the rest of the nation to put it on our cereal boxes.


You're worried about cereal boxes?


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uwish uwish:
so if it was 'the feds' that forced this dam bilingualism down your throat lets do away with it. You can keep it in Qc, but lets not force the rest of the nation to put it on our cereal boxes.

Are you forced to speak french ? NO. You have french as second language in school that's it.

Are we forced to speak english ? YES. But our schools forbide us to get bilingual classes.

And you are talking about your cereals ??


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If there's people talking about bilingualism is US. We cannot be bilingual if we speak french while YOU can. Stop that shit about us. WE are having a problem. I cannot even speak english at 26yo because of that.

All that I learned was from reading/writing on the Internet. YOU do no not have our racist laws that tell us to learn only french.


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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 9:41 pm
 


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uwish uwish:
so if it was 'the feds' that forced this dam bilingualism down your throat lets do away with it. You can keep it in Qc, but lets not force the rest of the nation to put it on our cereal boxes.


You're worried about cereal boxes?

No, he's worried about the more money he pays for another language to be put on his cereal box that doesn't benefit most of the country. You do the math.


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All that I learned was from reading/writing on the Internet. YOU do no not have our racist laws that tell us to learn only french.

Did the majority of Quebecers vote for that government that created those racist laws?


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uwish uwish:
so if it was 'the feds' that forced this dam bilingualism down your throat lets do away with it. You can keep it in Qc, but lets not force the rest of the nation to put it on our cereal boxes.


You're worried about cereal boxes?

No, he's worried about the more money he pays for another language to be put on his cereal box that doesn't benefit most of the country. You do the math.


You're the one bitching about cereal boxes, so why don't you actually do the math, because I could personally give a rat's ass. How much extra does one pay for a cereal box with a second language printed on the other side? You seem to be worried about it, so you tell me why I should be.

And to be honest, even if there were no law making bilingual packaging mandatory, it still would be bilingual because when companies want to sell a product nationwide, they tend to not forget the 7 million potential French-speaking customers they could attract simply by putting half the packaging in their language.

Idiotic gripes like this are what really make English-Canadians seem like the world's most ridiculous nation: obsessed with the US, pissed off at Quebec, angry at the tragedy of half a cereal box being in French, a language almost all English Canadians study for about 8 years in public school but still can't read, speak, write or tolerate one bit. Is there any other nation as petty and pathetic as that? Je pense que non.


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PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:30 am
 


Proculation Proculation:
uwish uwish:
so if it was 'the feds' that forced this dam bilingualism down your throat lets do away with it. You can keep it in Qc, but lets not force the rest of the nation to put it on our cereal boxes.

Are you forced to speak french ? NO. You have french as second language in school that's it.

Are we forced to speak english ? YES. But our schools forbide us to get bilingual classes.

And you are talking about your cereals ??


that was merely an expression to describe the cost involved with bilingualism. Until QC does away with their language police I will stand by my view.

Am I forced to speak French no, but I sure can't apply for 90% of any federal job because I don't and if this bilingual court judge law passes, I think that will only strengthen my argument.


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PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:39 am
 


"You're the one bitching about cereal boxes, so why don't you actually do the math, because I could personally give a rat's ass. How much extra does one pay for a cereal box with a second language printed on the other side? You seem to be worried about it, so you tell me why I should be.

And to be honest, even if there were no law making bilingual packaging mandatory, it still would be bilingual because when companies want to sell a product nationwide, they tend to not forget the 7 million potential French-speaking customers they could attract simply by putting half the packaging in their language.

Idiotic gripes like this are what really make English-Canadians seem like the world's most ridiculous nation: obsessed with the US, pissed off at Quebec, angry at the tragedy of half a cereal box being in French, a language almost all English Canadians study for about 8 years in public school but still can't read, speak, write or tolerate one bit. Is there any other nation as petty and pathetic as that? [i]Je pense que non."


then explain to me why Qc gets over 3 times what any other province gets in transfer payments based on it's population?

You think it's petty that we have to pay a significant amount of money to maintain a shrinking percentage of the population.. I don't.

It's attitudes like yours that makes the MAJORITY of the country wonder WTF are we doing with these false frenchies in the first place.

http://www.carleton.ca/JMC/cnews/20102000/c2.htm


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