Moving On: Part 3: Montreal Reborn

[rennyminou]

I'm an Anglo US citizen who lives in Quebec City, and I love it here.

Essayez parler en Francais, un peu a moins! C'ést la belle langue-dificile de temps en temps, mais toujours belle.

I just find it a bit weird that some Montreal Anglos never learned or attempted to retain the French they did learn.

Oh, and I do miss Terry and Patty-when I attended UVM in the 80's I listened to them on CHOM religiously.

[PWN3R3D]

Poor little english speaking quebecers! Oh wait. You guys spat on the french for more then 200 years. The fact that you want us to be sad about your situation living in a city paved with gold makes me sick!

[carlouboy]

Thanks to this documentary, I understand more what English Quebequers had to go through. I find it however sad that the centuries of misery and humiliation that French Canadians had to face were not brought up. Either way, I'm very proud of the English community and I believe that, first and foremost, we're all Québécois. Oh, one more thing, saying less people want to separate because we're more "aware" is very snobby and disrespectful.

[sovietjoybuzzer]

Ah, the former city of Lachine! Glad to get out of there, but living east of 32nd ave will do that to you. I feel that more and more language and culture are not issues as important as infrastructure, hospitals, education, and the mafia. Anglos and francophones have more and more in common every day. I now believe that a tempered independence is the best thing for everyone, independence like in the European Union. Canada is great, but it's not home.

[emiliokis1]

I live in montreal as an angla/alo, I almost left in 1996, but thank god I stayed. I love it here this city defines what Canada is, its a struggle in the winter all across our land but there is always spring. Fight for this great land of ours and the great city will not be destroyed.

[navigarful]

I fled 12 years ago...best decision of my life!!!

I am back in Montreal temporarily for family...this long visit confirmed my decision to flee this super-corrupt, backward, heavily taxed province was the right decision.

It is amazing how much smarter and advanced people are outside Quebec.!

[SaturnS22]

@navigarful Shame on you. You did not leave Quebec - we kicked your stupid @ss out!

[BlueJoe21]

Vive le Quebec Canadien!

[cjames5a]

Lved out west for 3 years in Edmonton. Would I do it again. Yes absolutely but, only if I was making good money, which I was not in Edmonton. Alberta is about the oil and that's cool, so unless you are connected to that industry in some way ya ain't gonna make it out there bubba. Quebec is not perfect but, I think it's still worth trying to find a middle way re the language politics.

[wildnutria]

I lived in Quebec, and I would never go back, I really don't care for it, I don't see Quebec as a part of Canada, at all. Quebec should get out of Canada, we don't need it!

[SaturnS22]

@wildnutria Wow you really are not a Canadian then. Move to the USA where you all get assimilated and think alike.

[wildnutria]

@SaturnS22 I also have family in Boston, and there is alot of culture there, more then Quebec...Quebec wanted out of Canada 2 times now, and still the the french don't think there Canadian, I knew some separatist french, and let me tell you they are so brainwashed, Quebec is poor and falling apart, while Toronto is the 4th biggest city in north america and still growing...Life's better there,,,,,don't afraid of change..

[UneILEuneVille]

@wildnutria

Montreal tried to be a big city like Toronto. Then the west-slanders came to destroy it. They dismembered the city to re-create their roxboro ddo baie- d`urfée, etc... They do not want to be part of Montreal, to be part of our french society. The vast majority of the anglo community of Montreal is selfish closed minded. Never a minority in history of America had so much. But they are always whining about our french society lamenting that Quebec should be english because its Canada.

[wildnutria]

@UneILEuneVille Sure I am with you Quebec & Montreal should be there own country, I dont belive that Quebec is a part of Canada at all, I wish so much that Quebec would get out of Canada and Quebec would be only FRENCH, Just like the rest of Canada is only english, when I am in Ontario it 99.9% english, I live there and am very happy, I go to Montreal to get my special Greek, Italian, Arabic foods, Like the Jewish Bagels. I like Montreal but just to visit and leave, so I dont care if Quebec goes

[LethalNEKO]

@SaturnS22 That statement was very discriminatory. you know nothing about the average American. You know nothing about the large variety of the American people how dare you say that being assimilated means we think alike. We are still a country where the most creative and strange have a better chance at life. I bet you didn't know that before the 1980s French was the most popular language in the USA. Your ignorance is showing and it smells

[SaturnS22]

@LethalNEKO Really where the strange and creative people can be free? I think not like when people started criticizing Bush or the Iraq war there was an uprising and people started threatening other Americans because they did not agree. Like the Dixie Chicks who actually spoke out - there were CD burnings and radio stations stopped playing their music.

I am sorry bud but your naivety is stinking up the room.

P.S. I know my comment is discriminatory - it was aimed to insult.

[LethalNEKO]

@SaturnS22 your point is? because last time i checked people in america were given the right to voice opinions about everything. and you seem to forget how often the mainstream media would attack former president bush. we all don't think a like you arrogant moron. You act as if in America everyone is an exact copy of each other. People doing shit like that is what you get when you give people the right to do it.

[Acadianiste]

Hate will destroy you

[BeaverOwl]

Wow, really small minded response from a few on here. English people own property here as well, and should vote (we all deserve to have a say). Definitly their culture is not at risk. If a people want to maintain their culture, it'll happen with or without laws.

[BeaverOwl]

The Greeks do a great job of this, and so do the Jews. But definitly I can sympathize with da6is9. I'm in a field with very little job opportunity and have work in Montreal... I'd love to leave, but is it worth it? i dunno.... will prolly leave in the end, did it once, can do it again.

[klyde2005]

One of the reasons that we stay in Montreal is because we love quebec,, Once a year I go to Toronto and come running back to Montreal,, The Quebec culture needs to be protected so that we don't turn into Toronto,, It's normal that the french want to protect their culture from imposing cultures and Canada's lax immigration policies.

[jcberard]

all the english that like quebec stay there but lol they shouldnt vote in a referendum because they are canadian!!!

[buffymtl]

Terry and Pattie are in Calgary on Q107

[da6is9]

Great mini documentary. I enjoyed it. I wondered what happened to Pattie and Terry, now i know. I am one of those Anglos still in Montreal, and every day i wonder what i am supposed to do - where can i go to avoid what is happening (still) here in Montreal? I feel stuck in Montreal. I don't have many skills because i'm English and was never able to do many basic work because i needed the French language to function in that job.Yet,i still stay here like a deer staring at headlights on a highway.