via Blacklocks
Private sector employers for the first time face requirements to speak French under a cabinet bill yesterday introduced in the Commons. Airports, banks, grain mills, interprovincial trucking companies, radio stations, railways, marine shippers and other federally-regulated companies must embrace bilingualism in provinces with a “strong francophone presence,” thought the term was not defined: “It is up to us to protect French.”
Well pardon my French, but this is b*******.
This is why I moved to the west coast. Very few Frenchmen, better weather, pretty good economy … although … with an NDP government in BC, the economy could go south anytime.
BC attracts people with money who want to live in a better place. So far it’s working. In 1995 I bought a home for $200,000 … that home is now worth around a million bucks thanks to Chinese immigrants and other wealthy speculators.
I fully expect that the various governments are going to try to find a way to steal some or all of that equity and move me into a 400 Square foot cubical with no car parking allowed. Canada is now a Gulag so get ready to move to a free country in Latin America and Mexico. Those folks are still chauvinistic about their culture and feminism doesn’t exist.
We are losing our freedom and and our prosperity thanks to Liberal left governments and the clowns who vote for them every time.
Canada is not a real country, real countries have a common culture.
BC spends over a 100 million tax dollars every year on the french language industry even though the language is spoken by less then 0.002 % of the Provinces population, which is probably the number of queerbek federal employees out here. The french language racket is an insidious bigoted social engineering scheme that affects every region of the country and has destroyed any sense of fairness or justice while laying waste to our federal institutions… “this country it belongs to us”, Juthtin Turdhole.
^this X 10
The mind boggles. The feds grant Quebec carte blanche (no pun intended) to mandate french as the province’s official language, and then throw this out. Do they think that mandating french and english everywhere else in Canada will somehow “balance” what’s been done in Quebec?
This is the Canadian Government – the word ‘think’ is inapplicable.
Canadian LIBERAL government. Liberals always put their friends first. The intention, as has typically been the case with the Federal government, is to favour Francophones for jobs. French will seldom be used in these contexts.
Liberals always put their friends first.
So did the Mulruin Conservatives.
Yup, it’s a big club and we’re not in it.
And we stopped voting for them and the party had to fold. Sadly they were allowed to infiltrate the replacement party and stage a coup.
Quebec?
So, Wolfe died for nothing, after all?
Gravy train for the bottom feeders.
English Provinces need to go Unilingual English now and use the NWC like Quebec.
Hasten the collapse of the Canadian Gulag.
But, it won’t happen. Provincial Dippers and Conservatives will both proclaim their Canada includes Quebec. Or, more likely, “Mon Canada, y compris le Québec!”
If we want to get out of this garbage, torch and pitchfork mobs will be required.
“My Canada includes Quebec” was a popular T-shirt slogan in the aftermath of the FLQ incident 50 years ago. Barf!
And around 1990 the slogan was “My Canada doesn’t include Quebec”. Alas it wasn’t taken to heart enough.
Time to dissolve the federation. It was a dumb idea in the first place. The English and the French have been at war with each other for a thousand years. The people who decided hat it would be a great idea for them to live in the same country under the same government must have been laughing their asses off at the idea.
Agree
In other news at Blacklock, while Adolf’s Public Health Agency was totally unprepared for the epidemic, it spent almost nineteen thousand dollars on an executive washroom for its president.
Why is French so special? Inuit should be a no-brainer, and with the high immigrant populations, Cantonese, Farsi, Spanish, Hindi, Nepali, and others should required.
Failure to cover all “minority” languages is a clear case of discrimination, and will fail to stand up under legal challenge.
And Watcher is right. If Quebec can go all-French, the other provinces have an equal right to go all-English (or whatever language they may choose). Since it’s now required of businesses in/visitors to Quebec to speak French, businesses in/ visitors to elsewhere can legitimately be required to speak English.
MY RECENTLY WEIRDED YOUTUBE ACCOUNT
In my YouTube account all the ads are i suddenly in French.
I searched the issue and found that I could handle this in my profile.
Found in the account management section a link to managing ads, one item of which is language. It had three languages: English, French and … Latin. I deleted the French and Latin and ticked NO for “add langauages”. Ah, so, with yes ticked, presumably if you used a latin or French phrase in an email these languages were added to your profile. I ticked NO but am still getting French ads.
What are these ads on YouTube that you speak of?
Well, Edward, the solution?
I have tried ad blockers in the past and they never seemed to work.
I use an iPad mini 5.
I use https://pi-hole.net/ on a raspberry pi, which blocks a lot of ads on most sites, including youtube…..
you may have to tweak it a bit to make sure you still have access to the sites you want, but I’d say it gets about 99% of the ads
I use https://pi-hole.net/ on a raspberry pi
Ah, I didn’t know that was available for the Raspberry Pi. I’ve got several of them, including one in a Pi-top, so that’ll come in handy.
Must be another imposed ‘equality’ right. I too get french language versions of YouTube ads previously done in english.
You Tube accounts??? I didn’t know such a thing existed. I don’t have one, never have, no facebook, or twitter either. Never had em. Oh, and I don’t get any fwench ads either. so, never really been an issue. I guess I’m old eh!
Let the French ads run at least 30 seconds, then the annoying company that placed them has to pay for them.
F Quebec. Nothing more to say.
How else are they going to employ all the kids going through French immersion.
That not good enough to speak french you must be of french culture.
Horse french is the requirement, not french. If you can “tabernac” and “a proof is a proof” and your from Queerbek you’re in, otherwise knowing french will get you next to nothing, perhaps a low level job where a franc from Queerbek will be your boss.
It makes sense that a bankrupt, klepto-theocracy regime would pursue another annoying reason for the dominion to die while virtue signaling to its Eastern base. Its theology has swallowed the Greens whose only useful function was to split the looney left vote. Its Marxist and spendy ways has bought off the NDP. Its nihilism including identity politics has secured the GTA (centre of the Canadian universe). And most fortunately for the basic dictatorship, its opposition is feigning a policy that is saying “me too” to almost all of it. No self-respecting conservative that I know of can vote for them.
History biting us in the ass in my opinion – After the battle of the Plains of Abraham the British foolishly thought the French inhabitants would assimilate. Pffffftttt…yeah right.
Well they didn’t and here we are.
They should have listened to Lord Durham. Notice that francs from Queerbek are NOT making the same mistake as the English speakers made. Francs are carpet baggers and thieves, they stole a whole Province and destroyed a country and now they run the whole shithole based on a policy that is inherently bigoted and racist. Now they are expanding that bigotry and calling it, “just”. Don’t forget without the ROC Queerbek would be English speaking within a decade.
Heh.
Here in Ontario (semi-officially bilingual because of 5% of the population…) I did some work with a health commission. We had a dog and pony show in Hamilton (also officially bilingual because…dunno), so we had to have our bumph translated and took the requisite number of copies.
I believe we handed out one, to an English speaking dude who just wanted one, because “free”.
French Canadians used to be, how did they quaintly put it, “the white niggers of North America”, and got all the good press. FLQ and all that.
Now, they’re what, about 90th on the “victims” list.
Well of course,a fully fledged Kleptocracy should adopt the language of corruption.
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Why are we still joined with these parasites?
Is the blood and energy loss so high we cannot detach these leeches from our veins?
Pardon my French..Fawk Off Frog.,F.O.F.
These kind of directives are end stage games,rearranging the deck chairs as the waves close over the bow..
And How do they figure to enforce this?
Any Non Quebec Dialect gabbler,can just use “Google Translate” and insist they are complying,while charging a massive “Communication Fee” to cover the inability of Quebecers to speak true French..As an insurance against “Communication error”.
And of course,What if anything would these idiots have done differently if Western Separation was their goal?
I have not seen,a case for Canada,since the alienation became intense.
I doubt there is such a case.
For productive people and parasites have very little in common.
Hey, Quebec, if you want to subjugate English territory and impose your culture on it, do what William the Conqueror did and fight for it. Yeah, William, you know, that guy from Normandy who had a dispute with Harold as to who was really King after Edward died?
So now everybody will be saying “Good morning Bonjer” to me, not just the weirdos at the airport?
Why do they think that my name is Bonjer?
Or does ‘bonjer’ mean ‘dude’ or something?
I guess I can address men as “monsoor”, like John Wayne’s character did to Stuart Whitman’s in the movie The Commancheros? (Wayne played a lawman while Whitman was a Louisiana dandy on the run.)
A wonderful idea just hit me after reading John Robertson’s comment.
A proclamation is being made that the official language of Quebec is French, right?
Great! Since French is defined as “a Romance language [evolving from Latin, such as Spanish, Italian, French, and Portugese] which is the official language of France”, the folks in Quebec will have to start speaking real French instead of the batsh!t crazy jargon they talk. Lots of luck learning your new language, folks!
btw – Wikipedia has an interesting thing to say (emphasis added): “French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents,[4] most of which are members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the community of 84 countries which share the official use or teaching of French. French is also one of six official languages used in the United Nations.[5] It is spoken as a first language (in descending order of the number of speakers) in France; the Democratic Republic of Congo; Algeria; Morocco; Canada (provinces of Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick as well as other Francophone regions); Cameroon; Belgium (Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region); Ivory Coast; Tunisia; western Switzerland (Romandy—all or part of the cantons of Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel, Vaud, Valais); Monaco; parts of Luxembourg; parts of the United States (the states of Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont); northwestern Italy (autonomous region of Aosta Valley); and various communities elsewhere.[6]”
That should come as news to the folks in Ontario, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. I always thought their first language was English – at least that’s the language the road signs use.
More AMMO for MAVERICK
I blame Isaac Brock.
Less than thirty percent of the population of this country speaks French.
And English-speakers are capitulating because …?
The number of french speakers is much lower then 30%, probably around 23%… perhaps lower. Take Queerbek out of the picture and the number of french speakers drop dramatically despite spending 100’s of billions of taxpayer dollars on imposing french ( “bilingualism” ) since 1969.
Without Queerbek the number of french speakers is around 2% of the population. Its a racket, a bigoted racket.
It’s appalling that the CPC can’t mount an opposition based on this. It’s blindingly obvious that the Liberal party sees a two tier Canada with Quebec francophones in tier one, which leaves the vast majority of the country on the outside looking in. You know, “In the Conservative party we’re certainly interested in Quebec and those who speak French, but we’re also interested in those Canadians who live elsewhere or who speak English, and also those who might be interested in other languages because it’s part of their heritage (*, **) or because they need it for business.”
If you went to Vancouver and looked at what languages people were using, would French even make the top five? The top ten, even? So we follow the Trudeau plan and eventually 99% of Canadians can speak French (and maybe English). Half of them have trouble communicating with their grandparents, and whenever we deal with other countries we have to hire foreign translators or import more immigrants because everyone here was too busy learning French and we have few who can speak Mandarin, Arabic, German …
* We have a lot of immigrants in this country and Trudeau is telling them they don’t count. And not just on this, on so many topics. If someone immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 1975, why do they have to feel guilty about residential schools they had no part in and probably had never heard of?
** And on the topic of heritage, don’t forget about our First Nations. “Yes, I know you’d like to keep Salish alive in your community but your children’s French grades are well below the national standards and we really need to focus on that.”
Will Mandarin schools replace the English School Board in Quebec?
In time, yes.
That is why I laugh now.
Try squeezing those guys out, Justin.
And the Quebeckers will wonder why Justin isn’t standing up for them.
There are more Korean speakers in BC than there are French speakers.
Glad I left Quebec. I swear speaking the French language used to give me a headache right at the temples. It’s so lovely to live in an anglophone world, you have no idea. It declutters ones’ brain, a sort of
D and C.
Ha! Yes, deepest apologies if seemingly crude to the possibly insulted Peopleskind. It’s just this once!
So are the Laurentian imperialists going to make the same law regarding English?
Yup Joey,that was the point.
They state “French will be official” I say ..”good,when will you,Yes You, Queerbecker,when will you start speaking it?”
We can have a whole lot of fun and embarrass the brain dead Liberal supporters,by pretending to comply..and insisting French,as spoken by citizens of France,is that language.
And every (French)provincial dialect can be used to FUBAR them at every step.
And then let us insist on all committee speak be translated into plain English/or sign language.
And that Newfianeeze be the official language of Ottawa.
When is “white supremacy” and colonialism a good thing ? When its got something to do with imposing horse french.
are Quebecois expected to reciprocate? Perhaps just perhaps this might cost him votes in ontario
Well, it’s taken about 250 years, maybe 260, but they’re finally getting vengeance for the Plains of Abraham. I don’t expect any young Canadian, new Canadian or even the average Canadian to understand that historical imperative. But it matters, and it matters to the people that matter. I’m other words, to our French Canadian overlords.