[Jughead]

jambo101 jambo101:

Jughead i presume you are learning French as if you live in Quebec its expected of you.

Every day theres another anti Anglo incident like this one ..
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/13/montreal-transit-workers-refuse-to-serve-english-speaking-minister

I was born and raised in Quebec, lived most of my life here and the rest in the U.S. Never had the time to learn French, too busy with work. I am not a public service employee, so I don't have to be bilingual. Also, in the part of Montreal where I live (and grew up), there are not that many French speakers. I guess if I were to move outside of Montreal to a French speaking part of Quebec, then yeah, I would surely learn French.

[martin14]

jambo101 jambo101:

Jughead i presume you are learning French as if you live in Quebec its expected of you.

Every day theres another anti Anglo incident like this one ..
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/13/montreal-transit-workers-refuse-to-serve-english-speaking-minister

City of Montreal has no requirement that it's employees either speak or serve people in English.

Imagine the reaction if a French guy made comments about being told to fuck off in the TTC.



I left Montreal in '94, realizing that I couldn't get any higher
in the company I was working for due to a ' we must have more French managers '
affirmative action program.

Sounds like you should be thinking the same; Canada's a big country, and it's a bigger world.

[GreenTiger]

Not much of a surprise here. Quebec must be doing very very well if this is their biggest problem.

[jambo101]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

Not much of a surprise here. Quebec must be doing very very well if this is their biggest problem.

Actually Quebec is in a sorry financial state.
http://business.financialpost.com/2011/11/24/economists-warn-quebec-needs-to-act-on-debt-quicker/
Attracting business is tough in a place with such draconian language laws, the new PQ's solution? more language laws and more language police to enforce said laws.
This place is going down the drain due to its obsession to rid the province of every last vestige of the once vibrant English culture that used to live here.
And always the threat of outright separation..

http://www.nationalpost.com/Anglo+angst/7283280/story.html