France and Belgium are two of Canada's most important trading partners, both french speaking countries. It also makes us stand out, it's one of the things that separates us from the United States. Yes that is true if it is anybody's land it is the Natives. But I mean today we all call it home.. We DO suffer through it, but why should we? I mean all we're really asking for is for some respect, some understanding and to be accepted in our own home.
I mean I think i'd be pretty stupid for me to just stop speaking french, and speak english all the time, which would probably be even easier for all the francophones outside Quebec to do. I'm NOT saying don't speak english, i'm saying speak both. French is NOT a dead language, there are more francophones in the world today than there has ever been. Sure it's not like english, but it's definitely not dead. Getting rid of bilingualism would be really STUPID.
Yes there are, Books, CD's, Online programs, podcasts, etc. How do you know that? You don't. They are obviously two different realities, both of them working hard to try to keep their culture alive. We're losing our identity, I mean we're being told to go back to Quebec... Don't change it for us, change it for yourselves, learn new things, WHY NOT?
Taxpayers spend $2.4 billion a year on bilingualism. And for what? for 20 % of the population to hold on tenuously to a dead language? Getting rid of bilingualism would save Canada a ton of money and getting rid of the unions, particularly those backed by the liberal party( I am looking at you, McGuinty) would help us out economically. If we did this, our deficit would be paid down and we could make steps to promote a surplus.
@77tubuck I'm not saying you're not smart.. But you'd be EVEN smarter if you spoke both french and english fluently, and I don't see how anybody could disagree with that. I'm from Ottawa, I live in Ottawa, so I know they ask for bilinguals. For some of these French it IS their province too (like it is for me). Canada has TWO official languages, so get over yourself and learn french or move to another country.
@MiiszSam Fuck you I am not going to I am not going to apologize for my disability nor am I going to learn French, so get over yourself. I don't have to learn French. I don't have to learn German. If the French want to come here they can DAMN WELL LEARN ENGLISH. It is becoming the standard language anyway. Japan is teaching there children ENGLISH.
@77tubuck Simply think about it. I don't understand why you are all so against learning a new language that can do nothing but open your eyes to a new culture. Ontario is the home of francophones just as much as it is the home of anglophones. And most, if not all, of the francophones in Ontario HAVE learned english, which is why you're all saying that they're taking "your" jobs. Btw French is also taught around the world, in fact it is 2nd most taught language, after english.
1) I am against people telling people who were taken out of French because of a disability that they should learn French. THAT'S BIGOTRY
2) I am not saying the French are taking my jobs. I am saying bilingualism is being used by some employers as an excuse to discriminate against people with learning disabilities.
3) I am not against civil service being bilingual. I can speak to them in English and the French can speak to them in French. That's the way it should be.
@77tubuck Well that's a different situation. I mean, if you only spoke french and could not learn English because of a disability you'd be in the same situation. Bilingualism is a requirement for most jobs, if you can't meet it for whatever reason you can't blame the employers. Many disabilities can stop one from getting the job they want and sometimes it's not fair, sometimes you don't have a choice; you need your employees to reach certain requirements. Glad we can agree on 3.
@MiiszSam You can blame the employer if there is no reason for it to be a requirement. .i.e if the job is just unloaded a truck. On the other hand if the job is in customer service then yes they should require applicants to be bilingual. I want to clarify something. My disability does not prevent me from learning French. I was not given an opportunity to learn French because of my disability.
@77tubuck But if the employer has the option between a bilingual and an unilingual why not choose the one that's bilingual? No matter the job, it could be useful in cases of emergencies and whatnot. Well it's never too late then! I understand your frustration but you can't base your point of view just on personal experience.
@MiiszSam Anyone who is bilingual can be made unilingual if you make the French/English test hard enough. If you think we can learn French as well as someone who grew up with both languages you've got another thing coming, it's ridiculous. It's like going to a University and trying to get a Phd in a week. Albertabeefcoboy84 is right we should not have to speek French to get a good job.
@77tubuck That might be true but that goes both ways. I know it's not easy to learn french, but it doesn't mean you can't try and do your best. I've seen anglophones who didn't grow up with french learn it and very well at that. It's possible. Their problem? Then it's your problem too. French Canadians are NOT ONLY in Quebec, therefore the ones in Ontario, New-Brunswick,etc. never really had a choice but to learn english. So we're expected to be fluent in both, why shouldn't it go for everyone?
1) No we are not expected to be fluent in both. See the way it works is you come to our land you learn our language. The same way if I was to go to Quebec I would be expected to learn French.
2) We have more Chinese speakers than Franco phones in some cities and to be blunt you are not better than them.
3) There are no programs in my city to let me learn French. Even if there were it would still be my choice to learn French or not.
@77tubuck I've been trying to say that ONTARIO is not only "your" land. Francophones have been in Ontario for over 400 years already, I think it's safe to say it's both of our lands. Franco-Ontarians, and french canadians in general ARE expected, and well obligated really to be fluent in both is what I meant. I'm not trying to say we're better than anybody. There are many ressources accessible to learn french these days, if you look into it i'm sure there is a way.
@MiiszSam "There are many resources accessibe to learn French these days" YOU WANT TO BET? "We work extremely hard to keep our culture alive" The Irish people are working a lot harder to keep there culture and language alive. I am not open-minded to you idea's because they are ignorant and intolerant. I live in a non bilingual city and we are not changing it for you.
So what? My ancestors discovered Canada long before Columbus arrived. If its anyone's lands its the Native peoples. If french speaking people want to live and work in Ontario then don't assimilate the English speakers. If you want to speak french in Ontario then suffer through it like the anglophones in Quebec or move back to New Brunswick or Quebec.
@77tubuck cont. You have to put yourself in our shoes. French Canadians. We live in Canada, yet we are ignored by pretty much everyone, including Quebec. We work extremely hard to keep our culture alive, and I don't think it's fair for people to tell us to leave what is now our home too, because we speak a different language. All I'm saying is be open-minded, don't generalize a group of people because of some of its exceptions you've encountered.
"You are ignored by pretty much everyone" That's because you made the whole of Canada change for you. You couldn't fathom not speaking french so you make everyone speak in order to get a good paying job. Its sick! I see better culture growing on cheese. I say, let your culture die because money talks in English and so does business. If you don't speak English you're lost and yet you've made laws so that its the other way around in Canada,
" The only people being hired to fill these bilingual positions..." are those who are actually qualified enough to do the job! Damn those discriminators!
But seriously the guy is obviously frustrated AND stupid! Give him a break )))
Crois-tu vraiment que les seuls employés bilingues au Canada soient tous francophones? Pense-y un peu: si tu rencontres un anglophone qui parle aussi français dans un bureau du gouvernement, dans quelle langue te parle-t-il? En français? Bien sûr que non! Il te parle en anglais, parce que tu es anglophone, et le résultat? Tu ne te rends jamais compte qu’il parle français; tu ne penses même pas à la langue (c’est très commun parmis les gens unilingues); tu restes ignorant. Pauvre misérable!
You pathetic wretch. I always feel sorry for ignoramuses such as you who are so wilfully ignorant that they won't learn another language. Unilingualism breeds ignorance, ignorance of other peoples, ignorance of other cultures, ignorance of other ways of thinking, and this in turn leads to failure to understand what's what in this world.
You're an idiot. Germans are english speakers now?
Ontario had a huge majority of french speakers before it enacted laws that made french illegal in school. Read up.
And who cares about Canada, anyway? This is a joke of a country, still bothering to find itself a common identity. But let's give Harper a few years. He'll bring us back to our royal roots. At your fucking service, your majesty.
Canada is a failed experiment. An experiment that was botched by French Liberal parasites and all the leftists that voted Liberal. Enjoy it now suckers! LOL! Next you will need to learn Chinese right before you bow to your Muslim masters. LOL!
@Haasenfeffer They won't seperate because they know they would become nothing overnight. The Americans would tell them to get fucked quicker than they could say "Bonjour". Nobody else is stupid enough to tolerate them except us. They just keep threatening seperation so the leftists will keep apeasing them.
@MagnusAtheos1 by the way i'm sorry for you man but if we quebec become a country, you perfectly know that people will come to beg us. Tu sais pk paske sans nous les pays importateur vont preferer venir au quebec plutot que dans le canada, alors léconomie du canada va baisser :P ils ont tellement peur de nous laisser libre qu'ils essaient de nous écraser depuis plus de 250 ans pis vous y arrivez meme pas :P
@angeloflife76 So leave then. It's not us that keep you here. If Canada voted, you would all be gone. You are all afraid to leave because you know you would be nothing without Canada carrying your sorry asses. The US wouldn't want anything to do with you. Quebec hasn't separated because you all know you would be nothing without Canada.
@MagnusAtheos1 nah le quebec c pas separer parce que le gouvernement liberal de l'époque a fait rentrer un paquet d'immigrer en leur disant que s'ils votaient non au refenredum ils auraient beaucoup d'aide du gouvernement ( c'est-à-dire aide monétaire, citoyenneté canadienne, les régimes sosicaux etc... ) fak sont venu en masse voter non -.- pis ils auraient pas du voter puisque qu'ils n'habitaient meme pas ici et ils n'étaient pas citoyen canadien -.- ....
@angeloflife76 (suite) fak si le quebec c pas séparer c'est à cause d'une fucking cross du gouvernement parce qu'il avait trop peur que le Québec deviennent un pays ... ce referendum fut un vol ...
aloos avant d'argumenter commence dont par connaître l'histoire-.-
@MagnusAtheos1 pk je partirais? Tu pense vraiment que nous nous écraserions XD haha franchement tu me déçois comme tu est pathétique. le gouvernement a tellement eu peur de la separation qu'il a fait rentrer plein d'immigrer en leur offrant énormément de service a la condition qu'il vote non... alors oui vous avez peur bande de couillons
Who was here first? The English or the French? That's what I thought, so all you stupid English tards who think you're better than everybody should realize that we were here first, et vive le Québec libre parce que les anglophones ne nous connaît pas. The reason why bilingual positions are filled with francophones is because they actually speak both English and French. Vous ne pouvez pas trouver beaucoup d'Anglais comme ça, pouvez-vous?
Actually its the french who think they are better than everyone else. Secondly, no you weren't, unless you are native. My ancestors (the vikings) discovered North America before Columbus ever did.
Problem is that minority French is encroaching to force majority, taxpaying Anglophones to work in French when they haven't voted in favour of doing so. It's no longer just "accomodation" of the minority, it goes beyond that.
The City of Ottawa's Bilingualism Policy was never voted for by that city's residents.
Naturally, the City of Gatineau refuses to reciprocate. So Anglophones should stop too.
ROC doesn't want French forced upon it and to pay for it through lost jobs and taxes.
The french in Canada are telling English Canadians to move to the United States if they want to speak English. Considering that English Canadians make up more than 85% of the population of Canada, the English Canadians are telling the french Canadians who only make up 13% of the Canadian population to take their french and move to france. But you know what the french Canadians have bastardized the french language to the point that even france doesn't want them. English will Win!!
@serendipity164 Then you call me a racist lolllll you are the only one racist here, we dont hate you, we hate your gouvernment, we hate the queen, and all fascist symbols, so FUCK OFF!
Why would you mind having to speak a little bit of french yourself? You're clearly never have to replace english for french, while this is actually the main problem going on here. If we don't put enough effort into conserving our language, it's going to dissapear. This is not the same combat gong on in your side of the country, so why wouldn't you stop complaining a bit? You wil NEVER be obligated to speak french over english (as a mother language), you have nothing to fear, except your idiocy.
Bilingualism delays dementia and Alzheimer's. Bilingualism is good for you. People who are bilingual are proven to be more academically gifted.
French and English are the the two official languages. Canada was founded with 4 provinces, including Québec. Before that, the British, when they conquered Canada, they honoured the French language and . Before that, it was the French who civilised the Anglo-Saxons.
French-speakers can more readily learn English than the other way around because we...
...live in North America, where English is a more omnipresent language. Hence, we understand you can't learn French as easily. I guess you just need to make a greater effort to become bilingual.
Is it just me or all you need to fill that position is simply doing what most francophones do and learn a second language? It can be all that hard, after all.. Most english words actually come from french. Un peu d'effort et moins de plaintes s'il vous plaît. I know, it's easier to blame the francophones than to learn french, but at one point you should take responsability for your own shortcomings
Wow, can you say "paranoid delusion"? Sure I knew you could.
I am a French-speaking Manitoban. Then i learned English, followed by Dutch, German and Spanish. Later I added a few bits of Mandarin and Russian.
I guess what I'm saying is that you have to be open to all languages, something a lot of Anglophone Canadians don't seem to want to do. And then there are Anglo Canadians who put their kids in immersion and they grow up speaking great French and marrying into a Franco-Manitoban family.
This Canada Divided asshole is quite to one to fly over a cookoo's nest. What propaganda...I bet on weekends, you attend KKK meetings and say that Canada should be caucasian...asshole... last time I checked, Canada had two official languages. Redneck piece of shit! You're just pissed cuz you don't own us... go back to listening to Dueling banjos with your hillbillies!
Je suis bilingue merde. Je vois pas comment je fait de la discrimination? Maybe francophones are the ones getting hired because they are ACTUALLY bilingual. Ontario is supposed to be bilingual buddy. La ferme. Tu viens surement de Toronto.
Where is it written that Ontario is bilingual? Our own Prime Minister says that Canada is NOT a bilingual country so why should we allow french in it? Francophones are not bilingual because if you've heard them try to speak english, no one can understand what they are saying in french or english.
@albertabeefcowboy84 Canada has TWO official languages. I'm aware that it isn't really bilingual, but it should be. I'm francophone, and I speak both french and english fluently.
If you are francophone, what the hell are you doing in Ottawa? You probably don't even live in Ottawa and are only just saying that to appease the naysayers. Second, Orleans city Councillor wants the new Ottawa Police Chief to be bilingual. Majority of Ottawa is English so why should the police chief have to be bilingual. Being bilingual is only 1 step away from being french.
@albertabeefcowboy84 I was born and raised in Ottawa. Went to school in Ottawa in french from pre-k all the way up to now, in Univeristy. Sure, most of Ottawa speaks English, but not ONLY english. Police officers are already supposed to all be bilingual, which is DEFINITELY not the case. You are all so close minded, I don't understand. Why NOT learn a second language? All the francophones, at least in Ontario, have had to do it, and we're still alive, it is nothing but GOOD.
So what's the problem if they speak only English? Why are they supposed to be bilingual? I am not too closed minded at all. I am just sick and tired of the "bilingualism" issue in this city. The francophones in this city SHOULD have had to do it. If they were francophones and want to speak french, they have the choice of living in Quebec or New Brunswick. Ottawa is the capital city but Ontario is not considered bilingual and neither is Ottawa.
I have spent a decade in post secondary education and you want me as well as other post secondary students to take even MORE time and spend MORE money in school to learn french? That is an extremely stupid statement to make. People like me and 77tubuck should be at the forefront of government jobs since government jobs should be about education and job skills and NOT about language skills. This is why the government is useless and is filled by useless people.
@albertabeefcowboy84 Well francophones have to learn english... What's stupid is being so hard headed and close minded not wanting to learn another language. Those jobs are about education before anything but if a bilingual has that level of education, of course they are very obviously the better choice.
Who ever said I don't know french? I just choose not to use it.
Then why do bilingual people get those jobs without having the proper education? The mere fact that they have french language skills automatically gets them that job. A co-worker of mine got a promotion and he only has a single basic college degree. I have three degrees but he has french but he has no skill for managing people and I do. How do you explain that one?
Why should I have to learn it to get a good job? Think about it. In a job where I have no contact with the public, what possible use is another language? There is no bilingual person in Canada with my level of expertise and education background so that is a moot point.
@MiiszSam con't "Well francophones have to learn English." Firstly that's there problem. Secondly I DID NOT ASK them to learn English. If the Quebecer's can get buy only speaking French in there own province that's fine with me. What next are we going to be expected to be fluent in all languages.
@MiiszSam I have an I.Q. of 140 the highest possible buddy. And I am not ashamed that I was pulled out of French to be put in special Ed. I also have a degree in computer science. Secondly read the classifieds in the Ottawa paper. Every job even if it is just a warehouse worker asks for bilingualism. Thats bigotry. If these French can't accept me for who I am they can get the hell out of my province.
lets all just learn spanish:) lol Or pick a random one how bout maderin???? Language really doesnt matter its all the same just a means to communicate could you imagine the whole world speaking one language dam.. unity peace understanding what a dull earth keep on fighting over stupid shit guys what the human race is all about:) Were all really stupid
the french society of canada are equal as everyone else in this big country of ours i cross my country many time over and im bilingual ,orignaly french , and i dont count myself as a separatist , this bull shit about separation is a freemason plot to keep the quebec society and canada from evolving to a higher level like the swiss or german (well organize society) people should concentrate on cleaning the filt inside the politic shit house rather than fighting about some dumb ass language issue.
canadian orangeman? what a fucking hypocritical lie. quebec culture is well secured, and yet you insist on being the most vocal, most protected, most isolationist minority in the country. canada is NOT divided - 90% of cvanada is unified and strong. but 30% of quebec are fuckers. just ask any francophonie outside of quebec, they hate you fucking separatists more than the english do.
im from quebec ,my first language is french ,but im no french canadian.
Hi,I'm a canadian ,I think quebec separatism is stupid,its everywhere in the education system and the politics ,I cant find english books in library ,cant talk english at the store ,policemen dont even know english for most of them ,theyre also just as corrupted as the politicians.
As soon as you criticize them ,you get into trouble ,you get called racist ,you get called a biggot.
LOL. J'me demande d'ou tu viens! C'est certain que si tu habite la campagne tu vas avoir de la misère à trouver des livres ou des policiers anglais! Si tu veux ces services, j'te conseil d'aller à Montreal ou Gatineau...pas Ste-Cécile-de-Pierre-Jean-Jacques!
@SovietMudkipTheTiger nazzi cananda? cause you think we want to assimilate your people XD haha yeah that's sure that's why we are invading the U-S and every other english country to tell you how to speak in french -.-... srry dude this is in QC that we are getting crush by your people . this his our home and this will stay in french
The whole country (except quebec) is ENGLISH!!! Why in hell would the rest of the country want to be bilingual? Oh wait, yeah I suppose we should all learn french in Saskacthewan and everywhere else in case a quebecer strolls into town.
First of all, prove it. Second of all, stay in your screwed up province. We don't want you around here! Third, I have lived all throughout Canada and I have NEVER heard french outside of Ontario/ Quebec.
Are you stupid? New Brunswick is fully bilingual (remember the Acadians) and Manitoba has alot of Francophone communities! You must be very yougn to think French doesn't exist outside Quebec/Ontario.
No, I am not stupid. Are you? I have never been to those provinces even to visit. Granted, there may be small french communities outside Quebec but that does not exercise the fact that they must be tended to in french.
I've never visited Manitoba either....it's basic knowledge about Canada! You don't seem to know much about your own country, specialy for someone who "lived all throughout Canada"...and you say you've never been to NB and Manitoba!
Its basic knowledge that there are french communities in Mb? I am sorry but who the hell cares about Manitoba? I never said I lived in every province, did I? Learn to read every word, thanks.
All provinces are important in Canada...you should learn to respect others! FYI I care about Manitoba and I'm a Quebecois! You did say you lived throughout ALL Canada...you're the one who should learn to write your thoughts! Maybe you should go finish your high school....
Some are more important than others. I will respect others when others respect me. Well, no ones perfect least of all the french. Saying I lived all throughout Canada does not mean I have live in every city / every province in the country.
Maybe you should finish high school. You would be a rare person indeed to do that in Quebec.
True. Some provinces are more important...Canada prooved that Quebec was important when the government sent a bunch of Canadians crying for us not to seperate!!! What has Manitobans done to you for you not to respect them...I guess you just hate every single province but yours! You don't deserve to be respected because you don't respect others. You are what I call a low life uneducated fool, if this is not the case, well this is what you are picturing youself as!
The problem is I don;t know any Manitobans to respect. I don't have a problem with the province.
I am very highly educated actually, and if I was coming across as the opposite, then that was not my goal.
No person who got their "degree" in Quebec is highly educated. They have a dumbed down approach to every degree there and spend 50% less time actually "learning" something so that when they get into the work force, they are useless.
Whatever...Quebecers are getting all the jobs in Montreal and Ottawa because we actually learned both official languages in school! 75% of jobs in Ottawa are bilingual...I work in Ottawa and use French mostly!
That is EXACTLY why the government is in so much trouble because all these french people have no clue how to do anything. They can't manage people, money or themselves. They only get in because they speak french, they have no other skills and most of them have a supposedly note worthy degree, which means nothing if they go anywhere else.
LOL. I don't work for the government and my boss prefers French speaking employees. I deal with very important people in Ottawa and Canada, I also deal with money...the companie I work for is doing very well and I'm the head officer!
Your boss, working in Ottawa, has the audacity to prefer and hire ONLY french speaking employees? What an elitist bastard.
I am right and you are wrong. I have aunt and uncles in the government, and they tell me, every time I see them, about the mishaps caused by the french in their offices. I worked for DND on contract and the boss was a young french woman who didn't know how to manage anything. The project almost failed because 5 people on her team quit because of her.
My boss would hire an only French speaker before an only English speaker, that's for sure! But the truth is...most french speakers know english. We don't have any english only speakers here, they need the basics in french to be hired!
Exactly! That is my point. Your boss would hire a french speaker not because of his degree of education, but by his language skills. That is wrong! Education should be considered first and then language skills.
I never had any french speaking only apply at our establishment...they always know how to communicate in both languages. Which is not the case with anglophones, they never learn French. It's their bad, we need bilingual people here, we have french and english clients!
You think people who are in their 50's and 60's want to learn something new and take french classes for this job. I think not! Why would you have french clients in Ottawa, don't you have a Quebec office?
I'm not suprised you don't know about Ottawa, you probably know more about Americans cities...Ottawa has alot of French Speakers, Gatineau is right on the other side of the river (250 000 + francophones), Franco-Ontariens is the biggest french community outside Quebec! God, do you know anything about languages in your country, coming from someone who said "I researched this topic for years".
Why would you say I don't know a lot about Ottawa? I have lived here for 20+ years! So, what's your point? I asked you if you had a Quebec office, you did not answer. I realize that there is a large french population here and across the river, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't mind speaking english if they were ordering from Ontario. I bet the people who answer the phones in your building say "bonjour" before "hello".
You looked suprised we had french clients, if you know Ottawa, you know that there're alot of French Speakers here! They probably wouldn't mind ordering in English, but as a sign of respect, we like to serve them in their own language!
FYI, I do answer the phone in French only! There are no laws saying we should answer in english! Even you know what bonjour means!
If an anglophone dialed your number and you asnwered with "bonjour" I am sure that they would be put off by it. If any place I call answers in french first, I simply hang up the phone and they don't get my business.
If you answer the phone with a "bonjour" why not add a "hello" as well. If you are going to show respect to a province that you were not born in that has given you a job then answer in both official languages.
Yes, you would get put off by it and it's because you dislike the french language. Not everyone is like you, alot of people find the french language sophisticated! It has nothing to do with the official languages! BTW, I rarely get hang up, never actually unless it's a wrong number!
I would dislike it because last time I checked, this was Ontario, and calls should be answered in english first and THEN french.
More people are being turned off by it more and more. If you have a human resource/marketing section I suggest you guys get with it, or you will be left behind.
LOL. You wish people would be turned off by it, but it's not the case. I've been working here for 5 years (answering in French) now and the business is getting better and better! We have more and more clients every year. French is not a second class language anymore, even though alot of anglophones liked it that way!
Its because of the Liberal backed immigration policy. They bring in more french speaking immigrants so they have better chances of keeping in power and making english a second class language and making us second class citizens as well.
There are no second class citizens! It's dissapointing that you feel that way just because your country would like you to be bilingual! I learned english at 6 years old, I never complained...If I could speak 5 languages I would! You should see it as a advantage, not a disadvantage!
Because you should off taken a part-time course in learning french if you wanted to work for the governement! If an english speaking immigrant can learn french, there's no reason why you couldn't.
I don't believe a word of what you are writting. You're just a francophone hater. You would say anything just to try to proove your point, but it's not working. To me you're just a low life uneducated fool. You don't know much about your own country and you don't research before making stupid statments. You say french speakers have no skills, yet your comments are totally unreliable and false.
Name one thing I would like about the french and I might say you were right. I hate the french with good reason. They do NOTHING for this country and get EVERYTHING. I have three degrees which is most likely more than you, which makes you the lowlife uneducated fool. I researched this topic for years and I have first hand experience with french bosses.
French speakers DO have no skills. They only get in the government because they speak french. That makes my comments factual.
If it wasn't for Quebec (Francophones) Canada wouldn't have anything different to show the world. Anything artistic that comes out of Canada is mostly Quebec made! Oh wait, I forgot Nickelback...lol
Celine Dion is the most famous Canadian artist, you can't ignore that! But we also have Circle du Soleil, Just for Laughs (Juste pour Rire), Quebec made movies won a few international awards, not so much for the rest of Canada!
The only people who have heard of those watch french movie. I have never heard about those. Kick-Ass was a much hyped hollywood movie being shot in Hamilton.
En fait, il y a au moins une erreur factuelle dans ce vidéo. Le Canada n'a pas été fondé par les britanniques, mais bien par la France. Paris a cédé la Canada à l'Angleterre au terme de la Guerre de Sept ans. Donc ce video, dont l'auteur est probablement incapable d'articuler un mot en français si sa vie en dépendait, n'a pas beaucoup de crédibilité.
French is forced on to us English Folk. I failed a grade because I didn't want to learn French. Yet French folk often don't have to learn English , for some odd reason.
French is the reason why English has so many words that cannot be spelled without a dictionary. Thanks to French people , Celtic and Germanic culture is dead and is replaced with French and Roman culture. Thanks a lot for raping our languages too , I appreciate it. >:(
@FreeThinkingOpenMind First, I have to learn and pass english, like you. Second, why are you saying french is the reason why english has so many words that cannot be spelled? Third, french isn't responsible of the death of celtic and germanic cultures (in fact, they're still alive -_- ).
@jgui0888 In 1066 , the Normans , with the help of William the conqueror , they conquered the Anglo saxons. Lets take a look at English before the invasion
"Min Nama biÞ Alex , hwæt biÞ Þin nama?" , Now lets take a look at Modern English.
"My name is Alex , what is your name?".
Because of the Norman invasion , we have words like "Have" , "Rave" , "Lingerie" , etc.
Some words require a dictionary to pronounce , because the vowels and consonants give no indication of pronunciation .
@FreeThinkingOpenMind And it's the same thing that's happening today: the english is dominating and our culture is being assimilated. So, some people want to separate quebec from the Canada (which I don't want because I like my country, Canada, and also my nation, Québec). The only thing I want is to be respected as a Québécois and to feel my culture protected. This kind of video is what I hate of the english (in general): they think they're kings, but the rest as peasant.
Ridicule. Le français s'affaiblit partout au Canada, et même au Québec! Ils ont presque écrasé les langues autochtones et veulent faire de même avec la langue française. Merci à vous, Orangistes canadiens.
Ridiculous. The French language is getting weaker everywhere in Canada and even in Québec! They have almost crushed the Native languages and try to do the same to the French language. Thanks a lot, Canadian Orangemen.
I support a Dominion of Canada in which both English and French are Co-Official Languages in all the Provinces and Territories. English and French Languages should be treated equal under the law and be given the same rights and priviliges in all parts of Canada from sea to shining sea. Both English and French should be the Language of Buisness, Government and Courts in every Canadian Province. LETS MAKE CANADA 100% BILINGUAL COUNTRY.
Note pour ceux qui vont lire ce commentaire dans le futur après la vague orange au québec depuis le 3 mai 2011. Ceci n'a aucun lien avec le NPD. L'orangisme vient d'une doctrine de suprématie ethnique anglo-saxone qui éxiste en grande minorité dans certain enclave loyaliste au canada et au royaume unis.
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@KEBEKWA247 Bullshit. The french language SHOULD be weaker, because the french are a minority in this country. True story: I just got back from a trip to northern Ontario where every damn town is mostly french speaking. Any english towns up there in northern quebec? Didn't think so. You are imposing your language on the 87% of Canada that is anglophone ... and you're succeeding ....... and yet you still have the nerve to complain. Obnoxious twats, Just separate already.
dude get lost everytime ppl like you come hre they just speak english lmao !!! YOU DOnt even try to speak french NO ! would be too hard to try hen lazy americans...lmao id say you have a problem with french ppl you need to fix it dude ...cuz u look stupid talkin bout something that all come from you head!:) stop smokin weed;)
Man, your ancestors imposed the French Canadians English throughout the centuries, so it might be time the English Canadians learned French!
Hey don't you see the advantages you could have knowing 2 languages?
By the way, I'm from a country where its average autochtones know at least 3 languages. I personnally speak 5 languages, which is not rare at all here where I live.
So, way to go for you!
And FYI: Canada was founded by guess who? Yes! The French!
@ophone77 The French may have founded Canada but they did not value it. The French gladly gave up New France (A Poor Struggling Fur Trading Backwater) for the French West Indies (A Rich Thriving Sugar Trading Powerhouse) in the Treaty of Paris 1763.. Jacques Volatire once quiped that "By surrending Canada, France only lost a FEW ACRES OF SNOW" A French Diplomat once said that When the House (France) is on Fire, We should not concern ourselves with the Stable (New France).
@ophone77 You are 100% WRONG when you said that "and FYI: Canada was founded by guese who? Yes the French" The truth it was NOT the French who founded Canada but was in fact the British. John Cabot (A Swiss Salior who worked for the British Crown) in fact founded Canada when he landed in Newfoundland. Jacquess Cartier did land in Canada (Quebec) in 1534 (37 Years after John Cabot). John Cabot claimed Canada for the British before Jacquess Cariter claimed Canada for France.
@ophone77 The Modern Day Dominion of Canada (1867-Present Day) is very differant then the Canada Province (1534-1763) of New France (1663-1763). The State of New York (1788-Present Day) of the United States (1783-Present Day) than the Province of New York (1674-1775) of British America (1607-1783). The Canada that was founded by France has been dead for 247 Years and now the Canada created by the British is still alive and well.
@ophone77 I know that Newfoundland became a Province of the Dominion of Canada in 1949 (Last Province to be admited to the Confederation) but that does not matter, the fact is that the British founded and discovered the area that we know as the Dominion of Canada in 1497 (37 Years before France did in 1534). John Cabot claimed what was then known as Canada on the map of the days for King Henry VIII of England and that make the British claim to Canada stronger then France's Claim to Canada.
@RoyalistCavalier OK, but what I want to point out, is that the French were the first who called the northern parts of their North American territories Canada.
Jacques Cartier used the Iroquois word for village or settlement "kanata" to denominate the whole region around the place you find Québec city today.
So, in one way it was the French who founded Canada.
@ophone77 You are right that Jacquess Cartier used the Iroquois word for villiage or settlement Kanada (Canada). The French FOUNDED Canada but it was the British who CREATED the Modern Day Dominion of Canada (1867-Present Day) and even the Province of Quebec (1763-1791 and 1867-Present Day). The Canada of New France and the Canada of Today are TOTALLY DIFFERANT. The Eygpt of Today and the Egypt of the Pharoahs are again TOTALLY DIFFERANT.
@RoyalistCavalier Giovanni Caboto is in fact an Italian (or venitian if you prefer). Oh, and the first there where the First nations. But if you talk about Eurepeans explorations, then I'll say that it was some fishermans.
Man, your ancestors imposed the French Canadians English throughout the centuries, so it might be time the English Canadians learned French!
Hey don't you see the advantages you could have knowing 2 languages?
By the way, I'm from a country where its average autochtones know at least 3 languages. I personnally speak 5 languages, which is not rare at all here where I live.
So, way to go for you!
Quel con! Ils m'écoeurent ces anglophones qui croient que leur langue est la seule valable au monde!
of course they are going to hire francophone people in bilingual positions because they are BILINGUAL!!! They are not going to hire an anglophone because you guys almost NEVER know another language!!!!
je suis très heureux d`apprendre que les GERMAN ne parle pas allemand mais anglais il faudrait peut-être leur dire en Allemagne!!!!!. Peut-être qu`ils ne le savent pas au moins mon coco toi tu ne saura pas ce que j`ai écrit
The way I see it: if you are too dumb to learn two languages, you don't deserve to get a government job.
I teach English in Quebec, Quebecois have to speak 2 languages to get a high paying job, why shouldn't it be the same elsewhere in a "bilingual" country?
Oh... and Ontario founded by the English, Scotts, Irish... yep, proud people, nice people... but there were French people and (very important) Natives there too... don't forget that in your semi-racist comments.
with all that Quebec bashing, u guys are playing the game of the separatist. I'm from Quebec and when i heard idea like that how do you think i could feel Canadian!?!?!?
Open ur mind, learn new language and culture. stop being small.
Its only quebec ass'holes that keep believing in this shit. To call Canada BILINGUAL when Quebec (the government of Quebec) declares itself as officially unilingual french.
Quebec said NO to Bilingualism - Now Canada should too.
More and more Quebecois gens-du-pays are being brainwashed thru the political process to hate english speaking people.
More Quebecois 'holes' are feeling that they have more political rights than other Canadians (rights of special entitlement).
France and Belgium are two of Canada's most important trading partners, both french speaking countries. It also makes us stand out, it's one of the things that separates us from the United States. Yes that is true if it is anybody's land it is the Natives. But I mean today we all call it home.. We DO suffer through it, but why should we? I mean all we're really asking for is for some respect, some understanding and to be accepted in our own home.
MiiszSam 4 weeks ago
I mean I think i'd be pretty stupid for me to just stop speaking french, and speak english all the time, which would probably be even easier for all the francophones outside Quebec to do. I'm NOT saying don't speak english, i'm saying speak both. French is NOT a dead language, there are more francophones in the world today than there has ever been. Sure it's not like english, but it's definitely not dead. Getting rid of bilingualism would be really STUPID.
MiiszSam 4 weeks ago
Yes there are, Books, CD's, Online programs, podcasts, etc. How do you know that? You don't. They are obviously two different realities, both of them working hard to try to keep their culture alive. We're losing our identity, I mean we're being told to go back to Quebec... Don't change it for us, change it for yourselves, learn new things, WHY NOT?
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam
Taxpayers spend $2.4 billion a year on bilingualism. And for what? for 20 % of the population to hold on tenuously to a dead language? Getting rid of bilingualism would save Canada a ton of money and getting rid of the unions, particularly those backed by the liberal party( I am looking at you, McGuinty) would help us out economically. If we did this, our deficit would be paid down and we could make steps to promote a surplus.
albertabeefcowboy84 4 weeks ago
@77tubuck I'm not saying you're not smart.. But you'd be EVEN smarter if you spoke both french and english fluently, and I don't see how anybody could disagree with that. I'm from Ottawa, I live in Ottawa, so I know they ask for bilinguals. For some of these French it IS their province too (like it is for me). Canada has TWO official languages, so get over yourself and learn french or move to another country.
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam Fuck you I am not going to I am not going to apologize for my disability nor am I going to learn French, so get over yourself. I don't have to learn French. I don't have to learn German. If the French want to come here they can DAMN WELL LEARN ENGLISH. It is becoming the standard language anyway. Japan is teaching there children ENGLISH.
77tubuck 1 month ago
@77tubuck
Love your response! Here Here! You are 100% right!
albertabeefcowboy84 1 month ago
@77tubuck Simply think about it. I don't understand why you are all so against learning a new language that can do nothing but open your eyes to a new culture. Ontario is the home of francophones just as much as it is the home of anglophones. And most, if not all, of the francophones in Ontario HAVE learned english, which is why you're all saying that they're taking "your" jobs. Btw French is also taught around the world, in fact it is 2nd most taught language, after english.
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam
1) I am against people telling people who were taken out of French because of a disability that they should learn French. THAT'S BIGOTRY
2) I am not saying the French are taking my jobs. I am saying bilingualism is being used by some employers as an excuse to discriminate against people with learning disabilities.
3) I am not against civil service being bilingual. I can speak to them in English and the French can speak to them in French. That's the way it should be.
77tubuck 1 month ago
@77tubuck Well that's a different situation. I mean, if you only spoke french and could not learn English because of a disability you'd be in the same situation. Bilingualism is a requirement for most jobs, if you can't meet it for whatever reason you can't blame the employers. Many disabilities can stop one from getting the job they want and sometimes it's not fair, sometimes you don't have a choice; you need your employees to reach certain requirements. Glad we can agree on 3.
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam You can blame the employer if there is no reason for it to be a requirement. .i.e if the job is just unloaded a truck. On the other hand if the job is in customer service then yes they should require applicants to be bilingual. I want to clarify something. My disability does not prevent me from learning French. I was not given an opportunity to learn French because of my disability.
77tubuck 1 month ago
@77tubuck But if the employer has the option between a bilingual and an unilingual why not choose the one that's bilingual? No matter the job, it could be useful in cases of emergencies and whatnot. Well it's never too late then! I understand your frustration but you can't base your point of view just on personal experience.
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam Anyone who is bilingual can be made unilingual if you make the French/English test hard enough. If you think we can learn French as well as someone who grew up with both languages you've got another thing coming, it's ridiculous. It's like going to a University and trying to get a Phd in a week. Albertabeefcoboy84 is right we should not have to speek French to get a good job.
77tubuck 1 month ago
@77tubuck That might be true but that goes both ways. I know it's not easy to learn french, but it doesn't mean you can't try and do your best. I've seen anglophones who didn't grow up with french learn it and very well at that. It's possible. Their problem? Then it's your problem too. French Canadians are NOT ONLY in Quebec, therefore the ones in Ontario, New-Brunswick,etc. never really had a choice but to learn english. So we're expected to be fluent in both, why shouldn't it go for everyone?
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam
1) No we are not expected to be fluent in both. See the way it works is you come to our land you learn our language. The same way if I was to go to Quebec I would be expected to learn French.
2) We have more Chinese speakers than Franco phones in some cities and to be blunt you are not better than them.
3) There are no programs in my city to let me learn French. Even if there were it would still be my choice to learn French or not.
77tubuck 1 month ago
@77tubuck I've been trying to say that ONTARIO is not only "your" land. Francophones have been in Ontario for over 400 years already, I think it's safe to say it's both of our lands. Franco-Ontarians, and french canadians in general ARE expected, and well obligated really to be fluent in both is what I meant. I'm not trying to say we're better than anybody. There are many ressources accessible to learn french these days, if you look into it i'm sure there is a way.
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam "There are many resources accessibe to learn French these days" YOU WANT TO BET? "We work extremely hard to keep our culture alive" The Irish people are working a lot harder to keep there culture and language alive. I am not open-minded to you idea's because they are ignorant and intolerant. I live in a non bilingual city and we are not changing it for you.
77tubuck 1 month ago
@MiiszSam
So what? My ancestors discovered Canada long before Columbus arrived. If its anyone's lands its the Native peoples. If french speaking people want to live and work in Ontario then don't assimilate the English speakers. If you want to speak french in Ontario then suffer through it like the anglophones in Quebec or move back to New Brunswick or Quebec.
albertabeefcowboy84 4 weeks ago
@77tubuck cont. You have to put yourself in our shoes. French Canadians. We live in Canada, yet we are ignored by pretty much everyone, including Quebec. We work extremely hard to keep our culture alive, and I don't think it's fair for people to tell us to leave what is now our home too, because we speak a different language. All I'm saying is be open-minded, don't generalize a group of people because of some of its exceptions you've encountered.
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam
"You are ignored by pretty much everyone" That's because you made the whole of Canada change for you. You couldn't fathom not speaking french so you make everyone speak in order to get a good paying job. Its sick! I see better culture growing on cheese. I say, let your culture die because money talks in English and so does business. If you don't speak English you're lost and yet you've made laws so that its the other way around in Canada,
albertabeefcowboy84 4 weeks ago
" The only people being hired to fill these bilingual positions..." are those who are actually qualified enough to do the job! Damn those discriminators!
But seriously the guy is obviously frustrated AND stupid! Give him a break )))
joker3004 1 month ago
Crois-tu vraiment que les seuls employés bilingues au Canada soient tous francophones? Pense-y un peu: si tu rencontres un anglophone qui parle aussi français dans un bureau du gouvernement, dans quelle langue te parle-t-il? En français? Bien sûr que non! Il te parle en anglais, parce que tu es anglophone, et le résultat? Tu ne te rends jamais compte qu’il parle français; tu ne penses même pas à la langue (c’est très commun parmis les gens unilingues); tu restes ignorant. Pauvre misérable!
mosseisleyYT 2 months ago
You pathetic wretch. I always feel sorry for ignoramuses such as you who are so wilfully ignorant that they won't learn another language. Unilingualism breeds ignorance, ignorance of other peoples, ignorance of other cultures, ignorance of other ways of thinking, and this in turn leads to failure to understand what's what in this world.
mosseisleyYT 2 months ago
You're an idiot. Germans are english speakers now?
Ontario had a huge majority of french speakers before it enacted laws that made french illegal in school. Read up.
And who cares about Canada, anyway? This is a joke of a country, still bothering to find itself a common identity. But let's give Harper a few years. He'll bring us back to our royal roots. At your fucking service, your majesty.
MrNadeeo 4 months ago
@MrNadeeo You're patriotic.
jaydenfellow 1 month ago
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you just have to learn the french ... like me with you dumb language!!!!
joeblowthehot 5 months ago
The French are some of the bigest bigots around.
MagnusAtheos1 7 months ago
Canada is a failed experiment. An experiment that was botched by French Liberal parasites and all the leftists that voted Liberal. Enjoy it now suckers! LOL! Next you will need to learn Chinese right before you bow to your Muslim masters. LOL!
MagnusAtheos1 7 months ago
Hey quebecistan, please remember to leave our currency and jobs at the door when you separate.
Haasenfeffer 7 months ago
@Haasenfeffer They won't seperate because they know they would become nothing overnight. The Americans would tell them to get fucked quicker than they could say "Bonjour". Nobody else is stupid enough to tolerate them except us. They just keep threatening seperation so the leftists will keep apeasing them.
MagnusAtheos1 7 months ago
@MagnusAtheos1 by the way i'm sorry for you man but if we quebec become a country, you perfectly know that people will come to beg us. Tu sais pk paske sans nous les pays importateur vont preferer venir au quebec plutot que dans le canada, alors léconomie du canada va baisser :P ils ont tellement peur de nous laisser libre qu'ils essaient de nous écraser depuis plus de 250 ans pis vous y arrivez meme pas :P
et vla dans vos dents
angeloflife76 6 months ago
@angeloflife76 So leave then. It's not us that keep you here. If Canada voted, you would all be gone. You are all afraid to leave because you know you would be nothing without Canada carrying your sorry asses. The US wouldn't want anything to do with you. Quebec hasn't separated because you all know you would be nothing without Canada.
MagnusAtheos1 6 months ago
@MagnusAtheos1 nah le quebec c pas separer parce que le gouvernement liberal de l'époque a fait rentrer un paquet d'immigrer en leur disant que s'ils votaient non au refenredum ils auraient beaucoup d'aide du gouvernement ( c'est-à-dire aide monétaire, citoyenneté canadienne, les régimes sosicaux etc... ) fak sont venu en masse voter non -.- pis ils auraient pas du voter puisque qu'ils n'habitaient meme pas ici et ils n'étaient pas citoyen canadien -.- ....
angeloflife76 6 months ago
@angeloflife76 (suite) fak si le quebec c pas séparer c'est à cause d'une fucking cross du gouvernement parce qu'il avait trop peur que le Québec deviennent un pays ... ce referendum fut un vol ...
aloos avant d'argumenter commence dont par connaître l'histoire-.-
angeloflife76 6 months ago
@MagnusAtheos1 pk je partirais? Tu pense vraiment que nous nous écraserions XD haha franchement tu me déçois comme tu est pathétique. le gouvernement a tellement eu peur de la separation qu'il a fait rentrer plein d'immigrer en leur offrant énormément de service a la condition qu'il vote non... alors oui vous avez peur bande de couillons
angeloflife76 4 months ago
@MagnusAtheos1 t une criss de merde
MathieuLerouxInc 5 months ago
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MagnusAtheos1 5 months ago
@MathieuLerouxInc Obviously I hit a nerve. Truth is hard to accept is it?
MagnusAtheos1 5 months ago
@Haasenfeffer hey langlophone remind me to kick you off our coutry le jours ou y va le devenir :P
angeloflife76 6 months ago
Who was here first? The English or the French? That's what I thought, so all you stupid English tards who think you're better than everybody should realize that we were here first, et vive le Québec libre parce que les anglophones ne nous connaît pas. The reason why bilingual positions are filled with francophones is because they actually speak both English and French. Vous ne pouvez pas trouver beaucoup d'Anglais comme ça, pouvez-vous?
jaydenfellow 8 months ago
@jaydenfellow
Actually its the french who think they are better than everyone else. Secondly, no you weren't, unless you are native. My ancestors (the vikings) discovered North America before Columbus ever did.
albertabeefcowboy84 7 months ago
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Problem is that minority French is encroaching to force majority, taxpaying Anglophones to work in French when they haven't voted in favour of doing so. It's no longer just "accomodation" of the minority, it goes beyond that.
The City of Ottawa's Bilingualism Policy was never voted for by that city's residents.
Naturally, the City of Gatineau refuses to reciprocate. So Anglophones should stop too.
ROC doesn't want French forced upon it and to pay for it through lost jobs and taxes.
ConLibNdpDemocrat 9 months ago
The french in Canada are telling English Canadians to move to the United States if they want to speak English. Considering that English Canadians make up more than 85% of the population of Canada, the English Canadians are telling the french Canadians who only make up 13% of the Canadian population to take their french and move to france. But you know what the french Canadians have bastardized the french language to the point that even france doesn't want them. English will Win!!
serendipity164 9 months ago
@serendipity164 the first sentence is totally false
fredlegault1994 9 months ago
@fredlegault1994 The French in Canada; - especially in Western Quebec are so ignorant!
serendipity164 8 months ago
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fredlegault1994 8 months ago
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@serendipity164 Then you call me a racist lolllll you are the only one racist here, we dont hate you, we hate your gouvernment, we hate the queen, and all fascist symbols, so FUCK OFF!
fredlegault1994 8 months ago
@serendipity164 the first sentence is totally false we want Québec free from KKKanada
fredlegault1994 9 months ago
@fredlegault1994 Then free Canada of your ignorance and move to France; - oh but I forgot France doesn't want you either!
serendipity164 8 months ago
Why would you mind having to speak a little bit of french yourself? You're clearly never have to replace english for french, while this is actually the main problem going on here. If we don't put enough effort into conserving our language, it's going to dissapear. This is not the same combat gong on in your side of the country, so why wouldn't you stop complaining a bit? You wil NEVER be obligated to speak french over english (as a mother language), you have nothing to fear, except your idiocy.
gurdil19 9 months ago
The dude in this video if i ever see him i will make sure his nose pop up when my knuckle is gonna crash in his face.
He is making propaganda
OUR LANGUAGE is dicreasing in canada and in quebec
Last day i was served by an english dude in a general store that couldnt speak french IN MY PART of the country which is a french one
you're the one being a parano jerk.
GO a head and separate we never wanted that you stupid fuck
QCBEC 9 months ago
Could you please try to look more like an ignorant freak redneck ? good luck..
fauche1980 9 months ago
lol, poor english canadians.
Most oppressed group of people on the poanet after white christian males in the US.
MTLGSE 10 months ago 4
Bilingualism delays dementia and Alzheimer's. Bilingualism is good for you. People who are bilingual are proven to be more academically gifted.
French and English are the the two official languages. Canada was founded with 4 provinces, including Québec. Before that, the British, when they conquered Canada, they honoured the French language and . Before that, it was the French who civilised the Anglo-Saxons.
French-speakers can more readily learn English than the other way around because we...
Fooleth 10 months ago 3
...live in North America, where English is a more omnipresent language. Hence, we understand you can't learn French as easily. I guess you just need to make a greater effort to become bilingual.
Fooleth 10 months ago
Is it just me or all you need to fill that position is simply doing what most francophones do and learn a second language? It can be all that hard, after all.. Most english words actually come from french. Un peu d'effort et moins de plaintes s'il vous plaît. I know, it's easier to blame the francophones than to learn french, but at one point you should take responsability for your own shortcomings
gcalde 10 months ago 2
@gcalde parfaitement - well said
bourdon30 9 months ago
Wow, can you say "paranoid delusion"? Sure I knew you could.
I am a French-speaking Manitoban. Then i learned English, followed by Dutch, German and Spanish. Later I added a few bits of Mandarin and Russian.
I guess what I'm saying is that you have to be open to all languages, something a lot of Anglophone Canadians don't seem to want to do. And then there are Anglo Canadians who put their kids in immersion and they grow up speaking great French and marrying into a Franco-Manitoban family.
lalunette 10 months ago
This Canada Divided asshole is quite to one to fly over a cookoo's nest. What propaganda...I bet on weekends, you attend KKK meetings and say that Canada should be caucasian...asshole... last time I checked, Canada had two official languages. Redneck piece of shit! You're just pissed cuz you don't own us... go back to listening to Dueling banjos with your hillbillies!
Swingkyd1 11 months ago 2
@Swingkyd1
It doesnt. Canada is NOT bilingual!
albertabeefcowboy84 7 months ago
Je suis bilingue merde. Je vois pas comment je fait de la discrimination? Maybe francophones are the ones getting hired because they are ACTUALLY bilingual. Ontario is supposed to be bilingual buddy. La ferme. Tu viens surement de Toronto.
MiiszSam 1 year ago 19
@MiiszSam
Where is it written that Ontario is bilingual? Our own Prime Minister says that Canada is NOT a bilingual country so why should we allow french in it? Francophones are not bilingual because if you've heard them try to speak english, no one can understand what they are saying in french or english.
albertabeefcowboy84 7 months ago
@albertabeefcowboy84 Canada has TWO official languages. I'm aware that it isn't really bilingual, but it should be. I'm francophone, and I speak both french and english fluently.
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam
If you are francophone, what the hell are you doing in Ottawa? You probably don't even live in Ottawa and are only just saying that to appease the naysayers. Second, Orleans city Councillor wants the new Ottawa Police Chief to be bilingual. Majority of Ottawa is English so why should the police chief have to be bilingual. Being bilingual is only 1 step away from being french.
albertabeefcowboy84 1 month ago
@albertabeefcowboy84 I was born and raised in Ottawa. Went to school in Ottawa in french from pre-k all the way up to now, in Univeristy. Sure, most of Ottawa speaks English, but not ONLY english. Police officers are already supposed to all be bilingual, which is DEFINITELY not the case. You are all so close minded, I don't understand. Why NOT learn a second language? All the francophones, at least in Ontario, have had to do it, and we're still alive, it is nothing but GOOD.
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam
So what's the problem if they speak only English? Why are they supposed to be bilingual? I am not too closed minded at all. I am just sick and tired of the "bilingualism" issue in this city. The francophones in this city SHOULD have had to do it. If they were francophones and want to speak french, they have the choice of living in Quebec or New Brunswick. Ottawa is the capital city but Ontario is not considered bilingual and neither is Ottawa.
albertabeefcowboy84 1 month ago
@MiiszSam
I have spent a decade in post secondary education and you want me as well as other post secondary students to take even MORE time and spend MORE money in school to learn french? That is an extremely stupid statement to make. People like me and 77tubuck should be at the forefront of government jobs since government jobs should be about education and job skills and NOT about language skills. This is why the government is useless and is filled by useless people.
albertabeefcowboy84 1 month ago
@albertabeefcowboy84 Well francophones have to learn english... What's stupid is being so hard headed and close minded not wanting to learn another language. Those jobs are about education before anything but if a bilingual has that level of education, of course they are very obviously the better choice.
MiiszSam 1 month ago
@MiiszSam
Who ever said I don't know french? I just choose not to use it.
Then why do bilingual people get those jobs without having the proper education? The mere fact that they have french language skills automatically gets them that job. A co-worker of mine got a promotion and he only has a single basic college degree. I have three degrees but he has french but he has no skill for managing people and I do. How do you explain that one?
albertabeefcowboy84 1 month ago
@MiiszSam
Why should I have to learn it to get a good job? Think about it. In a job where I have no contact with the public, what possible use is another language? There is no bilingual person in Canada with my level of expertise and education background so that is a moot point.
albertabeefcowboy84 1 month ago
@MiiszSam con't "Well francophones have to learn English." Firstly that's there problem. Secondly I DID NOT ASK them to learn English. If the Quebecer's can get buy only speaking French in there own province that's fine with me. What next are we going to be expected to be fluent in all languages.
77tubuck 1 month ago
@MiiszSam I have an I.Q. of 140 the highest possible buddy. And I am not ashamed that I was pulled out of French to be put in special Ed. I also have a degree in computer science. Secondly read the classifieds in the Ottawa paper. Every job even if it is just a warehouse worker asks for bilingualism. Thats bigotry. If these French can't accept me for who I am they can get the hell out of my province.
77tubuck 1 month ago
lets all just learn spanish:) lol Or pick a random one how bout maderin???? Language really doesnt matter its all the same just a means to communicate could you imagine the whole world speaking one language dam.. unity peace understanding what a dull earth keep on fighting over stupid shit guys what the human race is all about:) Were all really stupid
popandlockit1 1 year ago
the french society of canada are equal as everyone else in this big country of ours i cross my country many time over and im bilingual ,orignaly french , and i dont count myself as a separatist , this bull shit about separation is a freemason plot to keep the quebec society and canada from evolving to a higher level like the swiss or german (well organize society) people should concentrate on cleaning the filt inside the politic shit house rather than fighting about some dumb ass language issue.
deadz74 1 year ago
canadian orangeman? what a fucking hypocritical lie. quebec culture is well secured, and yet you insist on being the most vocal, most protected, most isolationist minority in the country. canada is NOT divided - 90% of cvanada is unified and strong. but 30% of quebec are fuckers. just ask any francophonie outside of quebec, they hate you fucking separatists more than the english do.
UpstairsMaid 1 year ago
@UpstairsMaid tu geule merdeux de calver
zidanetilo 10 months ago
@zidanetilo if you want a discussion then discuss. if you're just going to swear I'll just ignore you.
UpstairsMaid 10 months ago
Quebec get OUT !!!
sarkofric 1 year ago
haha! Just learn french and your sadness will disapear
oukoiki 1 year ago 16
im from quebec ,my first language is french ,but im no french canadian.
Hi,I'm a canadian ,I think quebec separatism is stupid,its everywhere in the education system and the politics ,I cant find english books in library ,cant talk english at the store ,policemen dont even know english for most of them ,theyre also just as corrupted as the politicians.
As soon as you criticize them ,you get into trouble ,you get called racist ,you get called a biggot.
I'll tell you what quebec is
Nazi canada
SovietMudkipTheTiger 1 year ago
@SovietMudkipTheTiger
Bullshit...You're not from Quebec!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
YA BECAUSE EVERYBODY WHO LIVES IN QUEBEC MUST BE SEPARATIST OR BE BURNED AT THE STAKE IN THE CITY SQUARE.
Maudit Quebeckistanais
SovietMudkipTheTiger 1 year ago
@SovietMudkipTheTiger
LOL. J'me demande d'ou tu viens! C'est certain que si tu habite la campagne tu vas avoir de la misère à trouver des livres ou des policiers anglais! Si tu veux ces services, j'te conseil d'aller à Montreal ou Gatineau...pas Ste-Cécile-de-Pierre-Jean-Jacques!
TheMattattak 1 year ago 3
@SovietMudkipTheTiger nazzi cananda? cause you think we want to assimilate your people XD haha yeah that's sure that's why we are invading the U-S and every other english country to tell you how to speak in french -.-... srry dude this is in QC that we are getting crush by your people . this his our home and this will stay in french
angeloflife76 1 year ago
@angeloflife76 Fucking frenchies need to learn their place :l
SovietMudkipTheTiger 1 year ago
@SovietMudkipTheTiger than come home :P it,ll bbe a pleasure to kick your ass
angeloflife76 1 year ago
The whole country (except quebec) is ENGLISH!!! Why in hell would the rest of the country want to be bilingual? Oh wait, yeah I suppose we should all learn french in Saskacthewan and everywhere else in case a quebecer strolls into town.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
You're wrong...alot of Francophones live outside Quebec! Maybe you should get out of Saskatchewan a bit!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
First of all, prove it. Second of all, stay in your screwed up province. We don't want you around here! Third, I have lived all throughout Canada and I have NEVER heard french outside of Ontario/ Quebec.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
Are you stupid? New Brunswick is fully bilingual (remember the Acadians) and Manitoba has alot of Francophone communities! You must be very yougn to think French doesn't exist outside Quebec/Ontario.
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
No, I am not stupid. Are you? I have never been to those provinces even to visit. Granted, there may be small french communities outside Quebec but that does not exercise the fact that they must be tended to in french.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
I've never visited Manitoba either....it's basic knowledge about Canada! You don't seem to know much about your own country, specialy for someone who "lived all throughout Canada"...and you say you've never been to NB and Manitoba!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
Its basic knowledge that there are french communities in Mb? I am sorry but who the hell cares about Manitoba? I never said I lived in every province, did I? Learn to read every word, thanks.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
All provinces are important in Canada...you should learn to respect others! FYI I care about Manitoba and I'm a Quebecois! You did say you lived throughout ALL Canada...you're the one who should learn to write your thoughts! Maybe you should go finish your high school....
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
Some are more important than others. I will respect others when others respect me. Well, no ones perfect least of all the french. Saying I lived all throughout Canada does not mean I have live in every city / every province in the country.
Maybe you should finish high school. You would be a rare person indeed to do that in Quebec.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
True. Some provinces are more important...Canada prooved that Quebec was important when the government sent a bunch of Canadians crying for us not to seperate!!! What has Manitobans done to you for you not to respect them...I guess you just hate every single province but yours! You don't deserve to be respected because you don't respect others. You are what I call a low life uneducated fool, if this is not the case, well this is what you are picturing youself as!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
The problem is I don;t know any Manitobans to respect. I don't have a problem with the province.
I am very highly educated actually, and if I was coming across as the opposite, then that was not my goal.
No person who got their "degree" in Quebec is highly educated. They have a dumbed down approach to every degree there and spend 50% less time actually "learning" something so that when they get into the work force, they are useless.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
Whatever...Quebecers are getting all the jobs in Montreal and Ottawa because we actually learned both official languages in school! 75% of jobs in Ottawa are bilingual...I work in Ottawa and use French mostly!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
That is EXACTLY why the government is in so much trouble because all these french people have no clue how to do anything. They can't manage people, money or themselves. They only get in because they speak french, they have no other skills and most of them have a supposedly note worthy degree, which means nothing if they go anywhere else.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
LOL. I don't work for the government and my boss prefers French speaking employees. I deal with very important people in Ottawa and Canada, I also deal with money...the companie I work for is doing very well and I'm the head officer!
You have no clue what you're talking about...
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
Your boss, working in Ottawa, has the audacity to prefer and hire ONLY french speaking employees? What an elitist bastard.
I am right and you are wrong. I have aunt and uncles in the government, and they tell me, every time I see them, about the mishaps caused by the french in their offices. I worked for DND on contract and the boss was a young french woman who didn't know how to manage anything. The project almost failed because 5 people on her team quit because of her.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
YOU should learn to read carefully...I never said French speaking ONLY.
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
I know that, I was asking that to the effect of are there English only people working there?
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
My boss would hire an only French speaker before an only English speaker, that's for sure! But the truth is...most french speakers know english. We don't have any english only speakers here, they need the basics in french to be hired!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
Exactly! That is my point. Your boss would hire a french speaker not because of his degree of education, but by his language skills. That is wrong! Education should be considered first and then language skills.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
I never had any french speaking only apply at our establishment...they always know how to communicate in both languages. Which is not the case with anglophones, they never learn French. It's their bad, we need bilingual people here, we have french and english clients!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
You think people who are in their 50's and 60's want to learn something new and take french classes for this job. I think not! Why would you have french clients in Ottawa, don't you have a Quebec office?
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
I'm not suprised you don't know about Ottawa, you probably know more about Americans cities...Ottawa has alot of French Speakers, Gatineau is right on the other side of the river (250 000 + francophones), Franco-Ontariens is the biggest french community outside Quebec! God, do you know anything about languages in your country, coming from someone who said "I researched this topic for years".
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
Why would you say I don't know a lot about Ottawa? I have lived here for 20+ years! So, what's your point? I asked you if you had a Quebec office, you did not answer. I realize that there is a large french population here and across the river, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't mind speaking english if they were ordering from Ontario. I bet the people who answer the phones in your building say "bonjour" before "hello".
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
You looked suprised we had french clients, if you know Ottawa, you know that there're alot of French Speakers here! They probably wouldn't mind ordering in English, but as a sign of respect, we like to serve them in their own language!
FYI, I do answer the phone in French only! There are no laws saying we should answer in english! Even you know what bonjour means!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
If I looked surprised, I wasn't.
If an anglophone dialed your number and you asnwered with "bonjour" I am sure that they would be put off by it. If any place I call answers in french first, I simply hang up the phone and they don't get my business.
If you answer the phone with a "bonjour" why not add a "hello" as well. If you are going to show respect to a province that you were not born in that has given you a job then answer in both official languages.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
Yes, you would get put off by it and it's because you dislike the french language. Not everyone is like you, alot of people find the french language sophisticated! It has nothing to do with the official languages! BTW, I rarely get hang up, never actually unless it's a wrong number!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
I would dislike it because last time I checked, this was Ontario, and calls should be answered in english first and THEN french.
More people are being turned off by it more and more. If you have a human resource/marketing section I suggest you guys get with it, or you will be left behind.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
LOL. You wish people would be turned off by it, but it's not the case. I've been working here for 5 years (answering in French) now and the business is getting better and better! We have more and more clients every year. French is not a second class language anymore, even though alot of anglophones liked it that way!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
Its because of the Liberal backed immigration policy. They bring in more french speaking immigrants so they have better chances of keeping in power and making english a second class language and making us second class citizens as well.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
There are no second class citizens! It's dissapointing that you feel that way just because your country would like you to be bilingual! I learned english at 6 years old, I never complained...If I could speak 5 languages I would! You should see it as a advantage, not a disadvantage!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
Then why having 3 degrees, and lots of experience, I cannot find employment in the government?
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
Because you should off taken a part-time course in learning french if you wanted to work for the governement! If an english speaking immigrant can learn french, there's no reason why you couldn't.
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
English speaking immigrants don't learn french.
I was in french immersion for 4 years. I haven't spoken it in almost 15 years though.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
Well then it's your fault if you can't get a job at the government! You're just too lazy to practice it I guess!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
I don't believe a word of what you are writting. You're just a francophone hater. You would say anything just to try to proove your point, but it's not working. To me you're just a low life uneducated fool. You don't know much about your own country and you don't research before making stupid statments. You say french speakers have no skills, yet your comments are totally unreliable and false.
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
Name one thing I would like about the french and I might say you were right. I hate the french with good reason. They do NOTHING for this country and get EVERYTHING. I have three degrees which is most likely more than you, which makes you the lowlife uneducated fool. I researched this topic for years and I have first hand experience with french bosses.
French speakers DO have no skills. They only get in the government because they speak french. That makes my comments factual.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
If it wasn't for Quebec (Francophones) Canada wouldn't have anything different to show the world. Anything artistic that comes out of Canada is mostly Quebec made! Oh wait, I forgot Nickelback...lol
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
Like what? Celine Dion? Pfft! I don't call screaming singing. What other artistic things did you mean?
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
Celine Dion is the most famous Canadian artist, you can't ignore that! But we also have Circle du Soleil, Just for Laughs (Juste pour Rire), Quebec made movies won a few international awards, not so much for the rest of Canada!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
Which Quebec movie won international awards? Kick ass was filmed in Hamilton, and there was being filmed in Ottawa a while ago.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
@CharlesDarwinFan
WTF is Kick Ass!
C.R.A.Z.Y. + Les Invasions Barbares (Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film)...there are others, go research!
TheMattattak 1 year ago
@TheMattattak
The only people who have heard of those watch french movie. I have never heard about those. Kick-Ass was a much hyped hollywood movie being shot in Hamilton.
CharlesDarwinFan 1 year ago
Je dois avouer qu'il a raison lorsqu'il dit que le bloc québécois agit sans se soucier du reste du canada...
samysnes 1 year ago
En fait, il y a au moins une erreur factuelle dans ce vidéo. Le Canada n'a pas été fondé par les britanniques, mais bien par la France. Paris a cédé la Canada à l'Angleterre au terme de la Guerre de Sept ans. Donc ce video, dont l'auteur est probablement incapable d'articuler un mot en français si sa vie en dépendait, n'a pas beaucoup de crédibilité.
Serpentin100 1 year ago
Also , I support the French people that don't want to learn English either.
Another thing , Germanic culture and Celtic culture appear to exist , but they don't.
After the Norman invasion , the English served the French Kings , dressed like French people , ate like French people , and lived like French people.
Any English culture today , is just a branch of old French culture .
Because of the dominating English people , other Europeans started to take influence from Old French culture.
FreeThinkingOpenMind 1 year ago
French is forced on to us English Folk. I failed a grade because I didn't want to learn French. Yet French folk often don't have to learn English , for some odd reason.
French is the reason why English has so many words that cannot be spelled without a dictionary. Thanks to French people , Celtic and Germanic culture is dead and is replaced with French and Roman culture. Thanks a lot for raping our languages too , I appreciate it. >:(
FreeThinkingOpenMind 1 year ago
@FreeThinkingOpenMind First, I have to learn and pass english, like you. Second, why are you saying french is the reason why english has so many words that cannot be spelled? Third, french isn't responsible of the death of celtic and germanic cultures (in fact, they're still alive -_- ).
jgui0888 1 year ago
@jgui0888 In 1066 , the Normans , with the help of William the conqueror , they conquered the Anglo saxons. Lets take a look at English before the invasion
"Min Nama biÞ Alex , hwæt biÞ Þin nama?" , Now lets take a look at Modern English.
"My name is Alex , what is your name?".
Because of the Norman invasion , we have words like "Have" , "Rave" , "Lingerie" , etc.
Some words require a dictionary to pronounce , because the vowels and consonants give no indication of pronunciation .
FreeThinkingOpenMind 1 year ago
@FreeThinkingOpenMind And it's the same thing that's happening today: the english is dominating and our culture is being assimilated. So, some people want to separate quebec from the Canada (which I don't want because I like my country, Canada, and also my nation, Québec). The only thing I want is to be respected as a Québécois and to feel my culture protected. This kind of video is what I hate of the english (in general): they think they're kings, but the rest as peasant.
jgui0888 1 year ago
thats exactly why we want to separate, to have a french Québec and the rest talk what the fuck they want !!!
ungrosptitloup 1 year ago
The Germans, ay? Then why don't you get some fucking talent and learn to speak another language, monolingual jerk.
scast84 1 year ago
thise video just feed the hate betwin french and english come on grow up fuckers
TheVirtualmax 1 year ago
Ridicule. Le français s'affaiblit partout au Canada, et même au Québec! Ils ont presque écrasé les langues autochtones et veulent faire de même avec la langue française. Merci à vous, Orangistes canadiens.
Ridiculous. The French language is getting weaker everywhere in Canada and even in Québec! They have almost crushed the Native languages and try to do the same to the French language. Thanks a lot, Canadian Orangemen.
KEBEKWA247 1 year ago 22
@KEBEKWA247
I support a Dominion of Canada in which both English and French are Co-Official Languages in all the Provinces and Territories. English and French Languages should be treated equal under the law and be given the same rights and priviliges in all parts of Canada from sea to shining sea. Both English and French should be the Language of Buisness, Government and Courts in every Canadian Province. LETS MAKE CANADA 100% BILINGUAL COUNTRY.
RoyalistCavalier 1 year ago
@RoyalistCavalier
100% bilingual basically means 100% french. If you truly wanted that, I suggest you move back to France.
albertabeefcowboy84 7 months ago
@KEBEKWA247
Note pour ceux qui vont lire ce commentaire dans le futur après la vague orange au québec depuis le 3 mai 2011. Ceci n'a aucun lien avec le NPD. L'orangisme vient d'une doctrine de suprématie ethnique anglo-saxone qui éxiste en grande minorité dans certain enclave loyaliste au canada et au royaume unis.
Ceci n'était une note et non un jugement sur un commentaire
Hyperion121 10 months ago
@KEBEKWA247 Bullshit. The french language SHOULD be weaker, because the french are a minority in this country. True story: I just got back from a trip to northern Ontario where every damn town is mostly french speaking. Any english towns up there in northern quebec? Didn't think so. You are imposing your language on the 87% of Canada that is anglophone ... and you're succeeding ....... and yet you still have the nerve to complain. Obnoxious twats, Just separate already.
Haasenfeffer 7 months ago
The Brits steamrolled the Scots-Irish linguistic heritage, too.
copyvio 1 year ago
dude get lost everytime ppl like you come hre they just speak english lmao !!! YOU DOnt even try to speak french NO ! would be too hard to try hen lazy americans...lmao id say you have a problem with french ppl you need to fix it dude ...cuz u look stupid talkin bout something that all come from you head!:) stop smokin weed;)
070greenwood070 1 year ago
Man, your ancestors imposed the French Canadians English throughout the centuries, so it might be time the English Canadians learned French!
Hey don't you see the advantages you could have knowing 2 languages?
By the way, I'm from a country where its average autochtones know at least 3 languages. I personnally speak 5 languages, which is not rare at all here where I live.
So, way to go for you!
And FYI: Canada was founded by guess who? Yes! The French!
ophone77 1 year ago
@ophone77 The French may have founded Canada but they did not value it. The French gladly gave up New France (A Poor Struggling Fur Trading Backwater) for the French West Indies (A Rich Thriving Sugar Trading Powerhouse) in the Treaty of Paris 1763.. Jacques Volatire once quiped that "By surrending Canada, France only lost a FEW ACRES OF SNOW" A French Diplomat once said that When the House (France) is on Fire, We should not concern ourselves with the Stable (New France).
RoyalistCavalier 1 year ago
@ophone77 You are 100% WRONG when you said that "and FYI: Canada was founded by guese who? Yes the French" The truth it was NOT the French who founded Canada but was in fact the British. John Cabot (A Swiss Salior who worked for the British Crown) in fact founded Canada when he landed in Newfoundland. Jacquess Cartier did land in Canada (Quebec) in 1534 (37 Years after John Cabot). John Cabot claimed Canada for the British before Jacquess Cariter claimed Canada for France.
RoyalistCavalier 1 year ago
@RoyalistCavalier Yes, the English have discovered the land known today as Canada, but Canada was founded by the French.
And by the way, how long did it take for Newfoundland to integrate the nation of Canada? ^^
ophone77 1 year ago
@ophone77 The Modern Day Dominion of Canada (1867-Present Day) is very differant then the Canada Province (1534-1763) of New France (1663-1763). The State of New York (1788-Present Day) of the United States (1783-Present Day) than the Province of New York (1674-1775) of British America (1607-1783). The Canada that was founded by France has been dead for 247 Years and now the Canada created by the British is still alive and well.
RoyalistCavalier 1 year ago
@ophone77 I know that Newfoundland became a Province of the Dominion of Canada in 1949 (Last Province to be admited to the Confederation) but that does not matter, the fact is that the British founded and discovered the area that we know as the Dominion of Canada in 1497 (37 Years before France did in 1534). John Cabot claimed what was then known as Canada on the map of the days for King Henry VIII of England and that make the British claim to Canada stronger then France's Claim to Canada.
RoyalistCavalier 1 year ago
@RoyalistCavalier OK, but what I want to point out, is that the French were the first who called the northern parts of their North American territories Canada.
Jacques Cartier used the Iroquois word for village or settlement "kanata" to denominate the whole region around the place you find Québec city today.
So, in one way it was the French who founded Canada.
ophone77 1 year ago
@ophone77 You are right that Jacquess Cartier used the Iroquois word for villiage or settlement Kanada (Canada). The French FOUNDED Canada but it was the British who CREATED the Modern Day Dominion of Canada (1867-Present Day) and even the Province of Quebec (1763-1791 and 1867-Present Day). The Canada of New France and the Canada of Today are TOTALLY DIFFERANT. The Eygpt of Today and the Egypt of the Pharoahs are again TOTALLY DIFFERANT.
RoyalistCavalier 1 year ago
@RoyalistCavalier Giovanni Caboto is in fact an Italian (or venitian if you prefer). Oh, and the first there where the First nations. But if you talk about Eurepeans explorations, then I'll say that it was some fishermans.
jgui0888 1 year ago
Man, your ancestors imposed the French Canadians English throughout the centuries, so it might be time the English Canadians learned French!
Hey don't you see the advantages you could have knowing 2 languages?
By the way, I'm from a country where its average autochtones know at least 3 languages. I personnally speak 5 languages, which is not rare at all here where I live.
So, way to go for you!
Quel con! Ils m'écoeurent ces anglophones qui croient que leur langue est la seule valable au monde!
ophone77 1 year ago
of course they are going to hire francophone people in bilingual positions because they are BILINGUAL!!! They are not going to hire an anglophone because you guys almost NEVER know another language!!!!
Unknownkid2 1 year ago
je suis très heureux d`apprendre que les GERMAN ne parle pas allemand mais anglais il faudrait peut-être leur dire en Allemagne!!!!!. Peut-être qu`ils ne le savent pas au moins mon coco toi tu ne saura pas ce que j`ai écrit
claudefortin23 1 year ago
The way I see it: if you are too dumb to learn two languages, you don't deserve to get a government job.
I teach English in Quebec, Quebecois have to speak 2 languages to get a high paying job, why shouldn't it be the same elsewhere in a "bilingual" country?
Oh... and Ontario founded by the English, Scotts, Irish... yep, proud people, nice people... but there were French people and (very important) Natives there too... don't forget that in your semi-racist comments.
1curieux 2 years ago
with all that Quebec bashing, u guys are playing the game of the separatist. I'm from Quebec and when i heard idea like that how do you think i could feel Canadian!?!?!?
Open ur mind, learn new language and culture. stop being small.
sreisor 2 years ago
Its only quebec ass'holes that keep believing in this shit. To call Canada BILINGUAL when Quebec (the government of Quebec) declares itself as officially unilingual french.
Quebec said NO to Bilingualism - Now Canada should too.
More and more Quebecois gens-du-pays are being brainwashed thru the political process to hate english speaking people.
More Quebecois 'holes' are feeling that they have more political rights than other Canadians (rights of special entitlement).
Screw Quebec
exxsi 2 years ago
u are the hater.
sreisor 2 years ago