I'm not gonna argue any more with you people. Everyone here seems to be entitled to their opinions, no matter how misguided or based solely on heard-of stuff, stereotypes and general dislike about a people they barely even know of.
What I quoted where examples of acting like a bunch of mouth frothing trolls. You have all the right to disagree with this law, like a lot of people- both francophones and anglophones- including myself, also disagree with. But you have no right to insult people like that, heck, the whole population of a province, even if it's the internet. Stop being so close-minded and rude. Plus, you totally defeat all your arguments about the intolerant nature of this law because you are acting even more intolerant right now. Try to discuss like adults, and not foul-mouthed little child that believe they can win an argument and impose their opinions on other by resorting to the most insults as possible.
Look at cathou, she is able to discuss with you, from the "opposite" side in this discussion (oh no! She is a big bad french canadian with their big bad attempt at a distinct culture! O_O) without insulting anyone or slandering the whole population they come from.
Also, allow me to remind the person that cleverly said we should be re-invaded and repressed to "fix" all the "problems" with us. That's exactly the cause of the problem in the first place. The french colony was taken over by another country who did attempt to assimilate them times and times again, and they fought back because that's what pretty much any human population would react to such a situation.
Imagine some random country barges in whatever-you-live tomorrow, invade and try to assimilate you. Even if they aren't overtly cruel or unjust, like the British were (don't read it wrong, it's in the sense: the British weren't overtly cruel), you surely ain't gonna be overjoyed about it. Suddently you all must learn Esperanto, and change your religion to Pastafarianism, political power is wrestled from any people that doesn't comply- at best- or whatever, you probably won't think this is all fun and completely give up your past language, religion and cultural identity just because someone decided they were your boss and would choose for you.
That's how humans works. Heck, USA separated from the British empire to become their own country and they were an english colony in the first place. But they had discording views over a lot of things and that was enough to cause the rift. And now, to anyone here that comes from there, or that sees nothing wrong with the reasoning for their own independance, I can't believe you can't even fathom the reasoning of Québec's own independence movement.
Now, a lot of time as passed, and as for myself the old wrongs shouldn't come into matter when we come to relationship between our provinces and it's people, but it's always easier for the "conqueror" to forget the bad things of the past than the "conquered". And even if we both don't like it, the politics and the such will always be a bit shaky because the clash between both sides in the past wasn't a perfect and friendly base to make a harmonious culture. You can't grab two cultures, forcefully crash them together and order them to become a perfect union just like that. Especially if you basically force one side to just surrender it's identity for the other's.
So now. This ain't perfect. We need to make more efforts to live with you, but so do you. Everyone makes efforts on their side, but do they also see the efforts made by the other? You say that in all the other provinces in Canada you can learn French. But who among you did learn French, and by that I mean more that "oui, non, merci". Then, looking back at Québec, what portion of the population did learn English? Just looking at the numbers on this very forum where of course every francophone that came here is able to write in English and discuss with you. If you'd just care to look at url=http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/analytic/companion/lang/bilingual.cfm]the percentages[/url], like of Québec's population that is bilingual compared to your own province, and think about it all. You can't claim that "my" side isn't making an effort. To the contrary of some others, whose younger population bothers less and less to make the same effort. (why bother for other cultures anyways, eh?)
Anyways. Nobody forces you to like and learn about my province, but you shouldn't just randomly spout hate at it, especially when all you know about it is "It's full of french."
And as for further discussion about it, learn respect, learn tolerance.
Not a single Quebecois that came here insulting you guys and throwing crap at you because of the language you speak or your culture or whatever. Try to do the same in return.
Let's all try to behave, if we ever want to claim to be living together.
