Blacklock’s- English “Don’t Belong”: Data
“Some described a backlash among English-speaking Quebécers as a result of government measures that were seen as Draconian and felt this is causing some resistance to speaking French when it is seen as something people are being forced to do,” said Bridges.
“Forcing people to learn a language is not a solution,” the report quoted one participant. “If some one forces me to do something I’ll do the exact opposite,” said another.
they still won’t like you just because you learn french . two-tier language policy is unconstitutional. don’t waste your breath rationalizing their cultural fetish and vote against anyone allowing quebec to have more rights to meddle in one’s choice of language than any other province . here we have to accomodate accomodate accomodate, there it’s live as we demand you to . you can’t make exceptions otherwise the premises in the constitution are 100 % lies .
I left more than 40 years ago and have been paying lower tax ever since. Can’t understand why some still stay.
I left Quebec 30 years ago. I left Canada 15 years ago. I have zero regrets, and in fact I am certain that my life is much better now because of those moves.
Some people stay because they have deep roots, within their communities, their circles of friends and families, their habits, and their tastes.
Others stay because they have no easy exit. If you earn the median wage or lower, and you are not in a job that can be highly mobile, it can be difficult to (a) save the money allowing you to move (b) find a reliable job elsewhere.
Many stay because they ignore the politics and they like the “joie de vivre” and other aspects of the culture, particularly Montreal.
However, many of the people that I know that stayed, they regret it now. A few them are still leaving today, many years later.
It’s also interesting, because when I entered adulthood in English Montreal in the early 90s, there was a deep-seated resentment and rivalry with Toronto, which was considered boring, sprawling, and lacking character, all of which has lots of truth to it. Ottawa the same. So many of those who left at the time, they came back not, long after leaving, they wanted to relive the night-life and the adventure of Montreal. I am not so sure how many realized just how much the discrimination against the English would affect their lives. Most of those people who came back would regret it years later, and many of them left again.
I would say that probably 2/3, maybe 3/4. of my graduating class in high school in Montreal in 1989 no longer live in Quebec. I would venture a guess that such a high number happens nowhere elsewhere in Canada, and few places in the world. Many of these people are upwardly mobile as well, and so this exodus has harmed Quebec’s status in the world. The Montreal of Expo 67 and the 76 Olympics simply no longer exists, what is left today is a shell of itself. Even the Montreal of the 90s is gone, and now Montreal is one of the least dynamic, oldest, and poorest urban areas in all of Canada and the USA.
The Quebec apartheid chased/deported a million maudit anglais down the highway.
To Toronto’s good fortune.
Yet the Laurention lizards still run the country and everything in it.
With Quebec still having the biggest begging bowl.
I only speak English but choose to identify as Francophone.
Check and mate.
At the rate we import people from the Third World, native born English speakers won’t be welcome anywhere in this country in a generation.
I left forty five years ago — no regrets.
Fourty two for me. My biggest regret was not voting OUI! both times and be rid of the repressive bastards but I believed in the unity of Canada back then.
Little did I dream that the little bastard spawn would emerge from the slime to ruin this country
Quebec: Takes steps to protect its culture.
TROC: Whines like little girls about it, because they’re so open-minded that their brains fell out.
Not all of us. I despise the Quebecois and the Canadians who voted for bilingualism and the Trudeau’s. They’ve only gotten more revolting and subservient in the intervening years. But I’m an Albertan.
Much like the English and the Irish finally realizing they are allies against Islam, I guess Canada is gonna need a whole lot more Moslems before AB figures it out.
Shrug. The eastern border of our County is a stone’s throw from Montreal, and from the mid-70s onward les Anglais have been migrating here. With very, very few exceptions, turdo la first is their patron saint and folk hero. They still view his cowardly implementation of the War Measures Act in 1970 as an act of patriotism and remain wilfully blind to the fact that their hero’s useless Charter abandoned them to les chiens.
Does anyone on here actually have a Blacklocks subscription?
If I was a multi-millionaire I would.
To support it, not read it.
Too much anger would come of it.
The original report is here: https://www.clo-ocol.gc.ca/en/publications/studies-other-reports/2024/building-bridges
The K-becers need to import more Fwench-speaking Muslims.
Hahaha, Anglophones learning French in Quebec? Never happened for centuries, won’t happen now.
Has always happened. In Montreal about 8% of the English population can’t speak French. Outside, basically zero.
We left in 1979. You don’t realize how bad it is until you get out.
New France is full of French bigots.. What else is new?.. I imagine the natives are not running around renaming everything in Quebec.. The French crawled out of our lakes and rivers as well :).. Get off my land!..