…while multilingual greetings may seem like common-sense customer service to Montreal retail workers like Sadat, Quebec’s provincial politicians appear to disagree.
On Thursday, the legislature unanimously adopted a motion calling on store clerks to stick with a simple “bonjour” when addressing customers instead of the hybrid “bonjour/hi” often heard in Montreal.
The national assembly members voted 111-0 in favour of the motion, which is not coercive.
111 racist pigs. Why am I not surprised?
And how is this different from compelling speech with respect to transgender pronouns? (Hint: it isn’t).
So Quebec politicians have nothing better to do than send out stooges to eavesdrop on in-store greetings to determine how much English vs French is being spoken. How stupid/racist/exclusionary/insecure of them. The mind boggles.
Hey, this country belongs to the french yakkers, they make all the rules and guess what? The rules franco talkers impose on everyone else favour the horse french talkers… surprise… been going on for decades. What would the Sock Retard think about this discrimination, if he was even asked, he would say franco Quebec is “special” and they need this to “protect their culture”, everyone else can f##k off. Remember, the Sock believes in Bill 101 too, you know, the franco language Charter that goes against Daddy’s imposed Charter. “Liberal” Quebecers have always been allowed to speak out of both sides of their mouths. Pierres imposed Charter dictates the social fabric of the nation with the exception of Queerbec. To the victors go the spoils.
Well, when you’re a politician, that’s what you have to spend your time on when the hospital waiting lines have disappeared and there are no more potholes and rotten bridges.
The pathology of most politicians is such that intruding in and altering how people live their lives is something which bares no humility. The greater good for PQ fascists is the state preservation of a language the way it was spoken 300 years ago.
Next up on deck – at that Habs game when they score you’ll not be allowed to thrust your fist in the air and say “yeah!” – just be “oui” or at very least the “oiu’s must be twice as loud as the english “yeah’s” (like the language signs), and they will be there with dB meters to make sure.
“Bonjour”….. okay………… “Vas Shier”.
Good for the goose…….
these GD frogs make it embarrassing to admit I’v got frog in my back ground
Plains.Of.Abraham. – job didn’t get finished and we’ve been paying for it ever since.
I think the Quebecois are just taking a step in the direction of honesty by forcing all retail transactions there occur in French. They are not shy about being protectionist bigots, after all.
For some consistency in honesty, then, all Quebecois banking transactions should be performed in Albertan.
I swear that if I ever travel thru ‘la belle province’, I shall enter with my black tank full and exit with it empty. And not visit a dump. The entire place is a dump – dependent on the ROC.
How soon can we get rid of these ba$tard$?
What happens to people working in publicly accessible services (shops, for example) that refuse, absolutely refuse to say,
“bonjour” to people that they’re serving?
What happens if they say, “Hello” ?
What happens if they say, “Hola” ?
111-0 means diversity is to Quebec what chalk is to cheese
where’s the CHRC when you need ’em
Bingo!
Up theirs.
The sovereignty movement is in the doldrums: this is just a bit of arm-waving to give the true believers something to nurse.
Another possible benefit would be a reaction from those sensitive souls that are triggered by anything out of Quebec, [of which there appear to be a few here]
Don’t sweat the small stuff.
small stuff is dual language print on products sold in Canada
“Don’t sweat the small stuff”
This issue goes to the heart of the relationship between ‘government’ and ‘the governed’.
The Quebec government not only has informers out and about listening to the words people use when addressing one another, the parliament of Quebec has unanimously adopted a motion suggesting what those words should be.
Not ‘small stuff’ by any measure.
The motion was unanimously adopted just because it matters so little.
It has no penalties.
For those to whom it does matter, the hard-line sovereignits [sic], the only positive results may be the scalded-cat response of Quebec haters — the two groupiscules are, as the marxists say, objective allies.
The sovereignists from Trois Pisttoles etc are aiming this at Montreal, a cosmopolitan city in which Bonjour, Hello, Bongiorno, shalom, and many more will be used promiscuously as always.
Simmer down.
http://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/much-ado-about-bonjour-hi-quebec-politicians-squabble-over-popular-greeting
The motion was unanimously adopted just because it matters so little.
It has no penalties.
For those to whom it does matter, the hard-line sovereignits [sic], the only positive results may be the scalded-cat response of Quebec haters — the two groupiscules are, as the marxists say, objective allies.
The sovereignists from Trois Pistoles etc are aiming this at Montreal, a cosmopolitan city in which Bonjour, Hello, Bongiorno, shalom, and many more will be used promiscuously as always.
Simmer down.
http://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/much-ado-about-bonjour-hi-quebec-politicians-squabble-over-popular-greeting
“Don’t sweat the small stuff”
Comment: As my Dad used to say – “Don’t sweat petty things, and never pet sweaty things.”
‘this is just a bit of arm-waving to give the true believers something to nurse. the only positive results may be the scalded-cat response of Quebec haters’
This is the level of sophistication present in the average politician in the province of Quebec?
Let me get this straight. This obtuse motion, its content being the very antithesis of anything a free and democratic people would aspire to, has been passed to throw a bone to the separatists and Quebec haters elsewhere in Canada?
I call bs to that sort of convoluted logic but if that analysis is correct then Kate’s header at the top of this thread provides the proper response to such nonsense; ‘go already’.
// Let me get this straight. //
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You didn’t. This “obtuse motion” [we agree on that] was Hérouxville moment for the National Assembly & might produce some positive results FOR THE DUR-SOVEREIGNISTS just to the extent that it could elicit an intemperate response from the anti-Quebeckers.
The header, then, would be the response they wanted [if anyone knew about this little enclave].
I lived in Montreal when this aspect of the Quiet Revolution was more relevant. I was sitting in a cafe in mile end when the server jumped out from behind the counter & chased a couple with a camera out of the place. “Again they come around taking pictures of my menu because the French isn’t bigger than the English !!” @#&%# [continuing in French]
Bonsoir/goodnight.
You would be hard pressed to find a person in our ‘little enclave’ who gives a fraction of a damn when it comes to Quebec but it is good to have a passing interest and have a clear picture of the place so just to recap your view:
When talking about Quebec and any anti-freedom motion their legislature may dream up, one should not call ‘shit’ even when it’s running out of a politician’s mouth because that may aid the separatist’s cause and we all know that throughout history, constant appeasement to aggressive illogical behavior has always worked for the betterment of all concerned.
Quebec should be congratulated
Their tail wags the dog.
White English people are afraid of their shadow and have a deep suicidal impulse.
Along with being easily fooled.
I swear a new Canadian species is developing as we speak.
Feet growing out of their knees.