CelebrenIthil said:
I'm in no way endorsing this and all the rabid extremist French-forcing laws. Tough the moderate ones are alright, Québec's official language is French and it's just normal that it has laws about it, just like all of your own countries have those. Alright. As long as it doesn't prohibits the other language, I don't care and I don't see why any of you should care.
I have this friend who is from Quebec. She's not French in any way, only speaks English. She had to move out of Quebec because she doesn't speak French, thus can't find work. Out there, her entire family was on welfare because they won't hire English speaking people. They all moved to Alberta, employed on day two.
As much as we can begrudgingly accept that the French Canadians are allowed their language,
English IS the
primary language of the nation. That people can't find work because they only speak the majority language of the nation, isn't right.
And beyond that, there are other stories of woe regarding Quebec. One in particular bothers me greatly. In the rest of Canada, we are forced to offer French schooling to anyone and everyone who wishes it. Be there only one French child in the entire city, or ten thousand, we must comply. In Quebec however, this isn't reciprocated. They don't
have to offer English schooling. In fact, the only way to GO to English-language classes is to be the child of an a person who went to English school in Quebec. If your parents can't provide written proof that
they attended an English school in Quebec, you can't go to English school. How the fuck is that fair? We have, as Canadians, the legal right to live anywhere in Canada as we choose. But if you move TO Quebec, you can't have your child's education continue in the language they know?
So yeah. Fuck Quebec. Not all of the people, definitely some of them, but fuck the province, fuck their laws, and fuck the idiots back in the colonial days who allowed them to keep their culture, it has brought us nothing but grief.
And now, a brief history of Canada:
Once upon a time, there was two worlds. The Old World, and the New World. Once the New World became known to the inhabitants of the Old World, a number of the nations sent ships to colonize this new land. Chief among these were the Spaniards, the French, and the British.
The British and the Spanish fought for control of the southern lands, the British also fought the French for the northern lands, and all three sides fought the local natives for ALL the lands. A long story short, the British beat back the Spanish in the south and carved out a nation later to be called "America", the remaining Spaniards calling their remaining territory "Mexico". But up north, the British didn't just beat back the French, they completely defeated them. But instead of killing them, or sending them back to their motherland France (of which they did not wish to do), the British tried to be nice, and let the French remain as part of their new nation "Canada". They were allowed to keep their culture, their language, their traditions and their beliefs. Where the conquered French or Spanish colonies in America were made to adapt to British ways, the French Canadians had things their way. But rather than be grateful, we have spent almost
two hundred and fifty years making concessions, exceptions, or accommodations to these ingrates.
And so the British colonists and their descendants, lived miserably ever after.
As to the natives, that's a story for another time...
The End.
