Quebec man single-handedly runs English-language news source for his community
Quebec man single-handedly runs English-language news source for his community
Many anglos have nowhere else to turn for information but 2MoPaul. Celebrated local paper The Victory stopped publishing in the ’80s. Under Quebec’s latest French language protection law, Bill 96, the city’s own website is no longer allowed to post any English information because Two Mountains doesn’t have official bilingual status.
That whole law is stupid and then need to fuck off with it.
How dare a minority passes laws to avoid fucking disappearing in the sea of anglophones in North America 😰🤧 cry me river 😢
It seems in Canada protecting language and culture of minorities is reserved for immigrants and first nations. say it with me: hy-po-crites
You're talking about protecting language and culture in a thread about a small town relying on one guy to translate the government's website because the law forbids the use of their native language.
French speakers are the majority in Québec. This is like a law forbidding Mandarin from being used in Canada and saying there are 3x as many Mandarin speakers in the world than English speakers and the law is required or else we'll all be speaking Mandarin one day.
As a monolingual anglophone, I think many anglophones demonstrate low awareness of English-as-a-first-language privilege (which is how privilege operates) and of the negative effects of English-language hegemony. Ergo, their opinions on reasonable French language/culture protectionism are of little value. I think it's more privilege than hypocrisy because I don't think anglophones opposing French-language laws in Québec typically champion efforts to promote Indigenous or other not English or French languages
No, disappearing in a sea of anglophones would be something like making all arms of government communicate in English, making it illegal to access non-English sites the government has after six months, forcing companies to alter signage at their own cost so it's only in English, declaring non-English speakers and enemy to English-speaking culture, and going out of their way to make non-English documents unavailable unless you want to pay extra for translation services. You know, like Bill 96 is doing for French.
No one cares if Legault prefers French. We care that he wants to strip existing things just to make French the only option.
Roughly 86% of those living in Quebec are Francophone. At a national level Quebec is a minority but still holds roughly a quarter of Canada's population so that's quite a large Minority group.
What laws like this are doing in Quebec is a continuation of the French separatist movement that has latched on to anti-immigrant and anti-anglo sentiment. This law also coincides with several laws outlawing the wearing of religious garb like the Hijab or Turbans by religious minorities. (Read: non-christians.)
Quebec and it's current government are a driving force behind a new wave of Ethnic Nationalism. English speakers no longer have the right to send their children to English school, the English school system is being strangled and so much more.
This is not about protecting language. It's about erasing another.
Well said
I wrote out a whole long reply rebutting your fantastic argument, and then deleted. The fact that you think the people of Quebec are a minority on equal footing to First Nations people or immigrants from third world or waring countries says more than enough about you for me to know you aren't worth the time of day.