Culture in Danger (Culture en Péril, with subtitles)

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This video was created by a few Québec artists to denounce the cuts in cultural funding by the Conservative governement, led by Stephen Harper. This version includes english subtitles.

When Beau Dommage's Michel Rivard visits a newly formed governmental committee overseeing cultural financing, language gaps and cultural misunderstandings abounds, mostly when Rivard plays his classical song, "La Complainte du Phoque en Alaska" (The Complaint of the Seal in Alaska)...

***I received a message from the original creators, so I assume it's accepted that my subtitled version doesn't interfere with their intellectual property.***

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[Triox45]

I love this video, its a pretty good representation of the English and French speaking relations in Canada.

As much as we'd like to think that things are fine. It is getting harder and harder to prevent their society from being absorbed and lost forever.

It's a legitimate problem. And one that still has no clear solution yet. (aside from seperation, which obviously I'm against living in NS)

Honestly though, I favorited this because it's funny. Thanks for the subtitles!

[Vineon]

Si les Québécois avaient élu des Conservateurs au lieu de Bloquistes, nous aurions déjà aujourd'hui une représentation en chambre affaiblie. C'est dans ce genre de situations que le Bloc est utile.

Maintenant, il est temps que tu m'énumères les bons points du Parti Conservateur en ce qui a trait au Québec.

[blasphemicwhale]

@TheBienpro ctfd

[superbelle79]

ano to kailangan pa ng translation para lang maintindihan ko.

[TheBienpro]

@GabyeRanger Please, we don't want Harper talking bullshit. We want it written in the god damn constitution and after we'll sign it. The thing is the francophones in the other provinces are minorities while in quebec it's a majority.

[GabyeRanger]

@TheBienpro But you are already recognize as a different nation, a beautiful one. You have your province and your official language. And nation doesnt need to have physical borders, it refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, history. What's annoying me in this is that qubecors sometimes forgot there are other francophones in the country who also survive without all that you have .Think about the acadiens, franco-ontarien, franco albertin.

[TheBienpro]

@GabyeRanger You're another ignorant fuck. Quebecors doesn't think they're better then anybody else but different from the actual West canadians. The point is not necessarely to be independant, but to be recognized as a different nation. And for your info, Quebec could be a rich country out of Canada, it's just a matter of having the right government that has the balls to protect what's the country possession not like Charest fucker.

[GabyeRanger]

@TheBienpro

Haha... I mean come on! Be a country with your own money, army and mail service and try to stay «rich»... Other countries have more than one official language and we dont hear about those kinda things, becoming a country. Even if im francophone and in agreement with this commercial, i dont understand why quebecors think they're so much better then anybody else and need to be separate of this amazing country that we're living in.U r not the only one who speak french in this country

[gsco82]

In Canada this debate has been going on for decades and nothing seems to get resolved. As an anglophone who likes french and cultural diversity, I would like to see Quebec remain in Canada, and keep their "distinct nation" status. There have been many compromises towards Quebec with the goal of allowing french language and Quebecois culture to thrive. It is difficult for an anglophone to see what Quebec would gain from separation.

[unexist001]

@Babinful Everything you talked about here is prononciation... Of course a new or 'foreign' language is going to sound a bit odd if you spent all your childhood learning the correct way of prononciating words/letter in your language. Now let me ask you one simple question : WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO DECIDE FOR EVERYONE ELSE WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL AND WHAT ISN'T???

[unexist001]

@Babinful Alors, ca mon cher ou ma chere Babinful3 c'est ton opionion. Certains vont penser que l'anglais est plus doux a l'oreille d'autres aimeront le francais d'avantage. Personnelement, j'aime ces deux langues. Je crois sutout que la beaute d'une langue depand beaucoup de la personne qui l'utilise. Partout dans le monde il y a des gens qui font ressortir la beaute ou la laideur de leur langues.