Leave it to the insufferable Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste president, Mario Beaulieu to attack a re-habilitation hospital for offering services bilingually.
The latest outrage concerns an institute that is the result of the 2008 merger of the Institut de
readaption de Montreal and the Lindsay Rehabilitation Hospital.
The management, acting in extremely good faith, petitioned the government to be accorded bilingual status for the merged institution, so that they could continue to service English patients in their own language, as they pursued their various treatments.
This, of course is some sort of an outrage for French language militants who see it as another English plot.
Standing in front of the institution in Montreal, Mr. Beaulieu held a news conference where he recycled the hackneyed 'Sky is Falling' argument to bolster his position that Montreal is on the road to becoming an English city.
Embarrassed management were none to pleased with the grandstand antics held in front of their institution.
"It's an emotional issue. It's a pity the SSJB is exaggerating things a bit." said rehab centre spokesperson Pascal Mailho.Instead of attacking a hospital, why doesn't Mr. Beaulieu and his gang of merry men attack more visible government institutions?
The newly launched gaming site at Loto-Quebec. has no problem serving Anglos in the language of Shakespeare!
How very considerate!
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It publishes extremely well-conceived circulars that are included in English newspapers. The various publications instore are all available in English as well. Aside from that, these aren't cheapo translations à la Google Translate, it's clear that the advertising agency given the job used Anglophones to work the advertising campaign.
I also was pleasantly surprised to see a Happy Channuka sign, pasted on the window of the Cavendish Mall location, remarkable since Christmas seems to be verbotten!
As well, clerks in stores in anglo districts are all friendly and very bilingual. In fact anglos make up a reasonable proportion of employees in these stores, unlike other government departments.
Unlike the CSST, who has announced cancellation of English service , REVENUE QUEBEC has no problem speaking English even to business', when it takes your $$$$!
I guess when it comes to taking your money, language accommodation is not a problem.
Mississauga Guy said...
ReplyDeleteRe your last sentence: No, Editor, taking Heenglish money will never be a problem--EV-VER!
I know it's not the most rational thinking to write that these fascist yahoos at SSJB and other assorted lunatic fringes should be taken to a courtyard and shot for treason, but sometimes I just have to state it! ...once in a while.
Loto-Quebec is certainly a cash cow for the provincial government
ReplyDeleteHow about every anglophone & allophone in the province boycott Loto-quebec for a month as a protest for the lack of english services at the CSST and other provincial agencies, and against fascist language laws. Perhaps a hit in the pocket might change the Quebec governments hostility towards minorities.
For those living near Ontario, Newfoundland Labrador, and New Brunswick purchase your lottery tickets in those provinces. And for God's sake. stay away from the Casinos.
Good morning Editor, great article about les petits kébékuà, once again beavering away at dragging down the province into the mud instead of going to work like everybody and paying taxes (by the way, how is possible they have so much free time in their hands?).
ReplyDeleteJust one thing: in German you say "verboTen" (past particle of the verb verbieten), not verboTTen.
Allophone ++
It's not just English money. They will gladly communicate in English when they want your blood too. The Hema-Quebec website is completely bilingual. I find it surprising that the Quebecois would want 'tainted' English and Allophone blood flowing through their pur-laine veins.
ReplyDeleteYup. That sounds about right. Quebec will take your money in English (Lotto Quebec, SAQ, Revenue Quebec) but if you want to get it back (CSST) that has to be done in French. Much like that racist St. Lambert Church, they'll take donations in any language but only spend the money on French speak parishioners! Pretty subtle. And by the way, why has this racist Church thing not gotten any press? Editor can you do a more thorough piece on that story please.
ReplyDeleteThe SSJB is a bunch of racist thugs. The only thing I give them credit for is not covering their faces with masks ala their brethren the KKK.
Realistically, all complaints about this province should be addressed to the federal government and to the UN. Our whining for the past three decades has accomplished nothing. Or we can push for a referendum on the political future of the island as a part of Ontario or a federal protectorate outside the jurisdiction of the petty linguistic fascist zone.
ReplyDeleteI read an article yesterday in the Metro paper on how St-Pierre is taking an easy road in dealing with the “anglicization” of commerce. One of the complaints of the author was that the gouvernemaman is not pressing hard enough on service providers to provide services in French only rather than in both official languages.
ReplyDeleteIt made me wonder…why service providers? What do they have to do with this? The provision of service is a two-way relationship in which the client wields much of the power. If the client demands service in English, that service is either to be provided, or else the provider risks losing the customer to the competition that will welcome the new client with open arms and provide service in any language the client wishes to be served.
It is rather evident that language zealots in Quebec do not understand that simple principle.
Dear Editor,
ReplyDeleteIt seems you have difficulty to make difference between serving someone in english and anglicizing a québécois institution. Which is the case with merger of the Institut de réadaption de Montréal and the Lindsay Rehabilitation Hospital.
The fact is some littles english-canadians have tried to anglicize the québécois institution. Some littles english-canadians which they have a unique position in the world : they are both second-class americans and second-class citizens which they are on a land that is not theirs.
Jean-Philippe, voilà un autre gars du petit-peuple qui ne pense que le Québec c'est une bulle pour son éthnicité. Let go of your belly-button and realise that English speakers are Quebeckers too (vos propos sont XENOPHOBES!!!), and if they work in an institution that belongs to the state, that institution belongs to ALL PEOPLE within that state, not just those who wish to take an uncivilised approach of violating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms with his open discrimination based on language.
ReplyDeleteListen to Deltell and patch your buggy code, mon cher 'anglos sonts des moins que rien pour moi' Jiovanni Philippo.
Wow, JP. You really are a racist (one that clearly learned English in Quebec's stellar education system!). When you say the land is not "theirs", do you mean the land belongs to Native Canadiens? Because Indians where her a long time before your racist bunch.
ReplyDeleteIs it ok to serve Native Canadians in English seeing as they were here a long time before you? Or is it pure laine or bust?
As much as you would like to think of me as a second class citizen (or second class American. Ha, what a joke! I'de wrather be a third class Americain than a racist bastard like you.)I still get a vote, and it counts for as much as yours.
“It seems you have difficulty to make difference between serving someone in english and anglicizing a québécois institution.”
ReplyDeleteBut it’s the people from your camp that equate the two and have a difficulty in seeing the distinction. Any concession on the language front, even as small as a one-off accommodation of some English speaker in some crappy backwoods hospital, is blown out of proportion and heralded as a sign of Anglicization of Quebec.
And how is it that these clowns always equate “bilingualization” with “anglicisation”? It’s either a case of extreme insecurity and complete lack of confidence in their own language, or it’s a case of an extreme type of racism where just the presence of another language is a thorn in their side. Or both.
Either way, it shows how petty, small-minded, and insecure these people really are.
In '96 I was at the Lindsay after knee surgery. There a beautiful older woman from Barbados, who worked as an orderly, gave her patients the most attentive care. We got to talking about food and the next day she surprised me with a wonderful dish of curried goat. Becky, forever I'll remember your infectious laugh and gesture.
ReplyDeleteAlas I also noticed that the franco staff worked for their paycheck while the english staff worked for the patient. The trend continues.
It's no surprise if the Bilingual status is permanently revoked as the Darlington was way larger compared to the Lindsay. What may save it is the latter's affiliation with McGill but I'd not hold my breath.
For Beaulieu and his rabid zealot compatriots they must have been tipped off by staff and/or patient(s). Bloody shame though I'm sure whomever complained does not mind using/receiving the services created by the Lindsay.
@Jean-Philippe
ReplyDeleteAttention J.P tu risques de te faire traiter de fasciste,de nazi,de bigot et j'en passe.Les anglos acceptent très mal leur position de minorité chez-nous.Si tu es chanceux on t'accusera simplement d'être un troll.Quoi qu'il en soit ,je suis totalement en accord avec tes propos.On continue a se tenir debout!
"...a case of extreme insecurity and complete lack of confidence in their own language..."
ReplyDelete2% sur tout le continent!Je crois que nos craintes sont justifiées.
BleuBlancRouge, je crois que tu n'as pas compris. Les Canadiens-anglais établis au Québec sont à la fois des Américains de deuxième classe ET des citoyens de deuxième classe. Et c'est bien facile à comprendre, car comme tu le sais la nation canadienne-anglaise est la seule nation industrialisée qui ne possède pas l'un des éléments essentiels qui fondent une identité nationale : une culture de masse qui ressemble à ses citoyens. Les Britanniques ont la leur, les Français aussi, ainsi que les Italiens et les Québécois, et bien d'autres nations. Mais pas vous. En effet, votre culture de masse est celle d'une autre nation : elle est américaine.
ReplyDeleteNon seulement vous n'avez pas de culture de masse, petit peuple insignifiant, mais en plus les principaux symboles identitaires qui définissent une nation ne sont pas à vous non plus, petit peuple de voleurs d'identité.
En effet, le nom que tu portes, petit Canadien, a été pris à une autre nation en 1867. L'hymne national que tu chantes a aussi été pris à cette même autre nation en 1980, tout comme la couleur rouge. Mais étant donné que vous avez souillé ces symboles, on vous les laisse. Maintenant nous sommes Québécois, nous aurons bientôt notre hymne national (Gens du pays) et notre couleur est le bleu.
Pour ce qui est de la notion de citoyen de deuxième classe, tu as sûrement appris qu'au début des années 1960 les Québécois se sont levés afin d'être maîtres chez eux. Donc si nous sommes maîtres chez nous, c'est que vous ne l'êtes pas. Il y a par contre encore du travail à faire, mais ça s'en vient et bien franchement je n’aimerais pas être à votre place.
Quant à toi Hugo Shebaquelquechose, j'ai lu sur ton profil que tu es originaire de Vancouver. Alors su tu n'es pas content, retourne donc dans ton ostie de pays au lieu de nous emmerder. Par ailleurs, je crois sincèrement que tu devrais consulter un professionnel de la santé qui saura te prescrire le bon médicament, débile.
Anonymus 3:36 PM, c'est bien vrai ce que tu dis à propos du fait que les Canadiens-anglais qui squattent notre terre nationale n'aiment pas leur statut de minoritaires, c'est historique d'ailleurs. Ce qui est aussi historique, c'est qu'à deux occasions ils ont été abandonnés par une partie de leur population.
ReplyDeleteUne première fois vers 1830 alors qu'un grand nombre de loyalistes et d'orangistes ont quitté en masse vers l'Ontario, et une seconde fois à la fin des années 1970 alors que 120 000 osties d'Anglais ont décrissé d'icitte. Tu connais la maxime : jamais deux sans trois.
@ JP
ReplyDelete"En effet, le nom que tu portes, petit Canadien, a été pris à une autre nation en 1867. L'hymne national que tu chantes a aussi été pris à cette même autre nation en 1980, tout comme la couleur rouge. Mais étant donné que vous avez souillé ces symboles, on vous les laisse. Maintenant nous sommes Québécois, nous aurons bientôt notre hymne national (Gens du pays) et notre couleur est le bleu."
Listen to me, pettit kebekua fasciste. You have not national anthem; Gens de Pays was a song written by a separatist song writer and then septards like you named it the "national anthem".
The Quebecois have no culture other than eating pouting and baguets. Vous petits kebekua can only wish that you were as successful as we are. You contribute nothing to North America and have turned Montreal into a dumphole that it is today(note: I'm only referring to the racist, fascist ones, Quebecois people in general are very nice and very friendly). You couldn't tell the difference between Canadian and American culture if you tried because you don't have the intellect to do so. Canadians and Americans think differently, eat different things, dress differently, vote differently, different histories, different accents etc... The only similarity is language. But you, being the bigot KKK lover that you are, won't and probably never will be able to comprehend cultural studies.
"Pour ce qui est de la notion de citoyen de deuxième classe, tu as sûrement appris qu'au début des années 1960 les Québécois se sont levés afin d'être maîtres chez eux. Donc si nous sommes maîtres chez nous, c'est que vous ne l'êtes pas."
For a group of people that aspire so much to be "maitre chez nous", you sure do depend alot on Canada to survive and stay on your 2 feet, eh? You're only "maitre chez nous" when it's convenient for you.
You're the one who needs help, frere.I'm not the one who's spewing hatred towards minorities like you are. This is our home too whether you like it or not so we're here to stay, and you better learn to start living with it.
Anglo Montrealer
BobIsNotUrUncle says:
ReplyDelete"Attention J.P tu risques de te faire traiter de fasciste,de nazi,de bigot et j'en passe.Les anglos acceptent très mal leur position de minorité chez-nous.Si tu es chanceux on t'accusera simplement d'être un troll.Quoi qu'il en soit ,je suis totalement en accord avec tes propos.On continue a se tenir debout!"
If the foo shits, vous êtes exactement cela, des crétins et des ordures raciste de premier ordres.
Ah, typical revisionist history, and methodology of the Ancien regime.
ReplyDeleteCulture only exists to this franco-supremacist in his corner of Canada: the rest of multi-cultural Canada (where he has never lived obviously) has no culture to him. More buggy code...
Let’s see some definitions of Culture:
-the attitudes and behaviour that are characteristic of a particular social group
-the tastes in art and manners that are favoured by a social group
Having grown up in Vancouver, the behaviours of our social group growing up were Kayaking, Hiking, Climbing, Windsurfing followed by beer gardens at someone’s place, or the local watering hole.
We have art in BC too, but it doesn't mean that because we spend a load of our time outside we do not have culture - in fact a common 'culture' is playing a hell of a lot of Rugby with social groups I interact with here on the Plaatoo, and there are a lot more Rugby (oh, and English 'devil' sport according to this chump JP) Clubs that people know here, see these links to our common culture with a great team of mostly Francophones (! Des amis proches :) :
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=190209223860
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rugby-XV-de-Montreal/123417341049735
"...Quant à toi Hugo Shebaquelquechose..."
ReplyDeleteT'as aussi remarqué...Effectivement,je crois que ce type ne va pas bien du tout.Il semble avoir le complexe de "L'univers tourne autour de moi"..."Je suis le champion du canada..."
Tant mieux pour lui mais y'a peu de chance qu'il le soit au Québec.L'air frais des montagnes semble avoir des effets bizarres sur certains individus.
JP you still haven't figured out a response to the whole Native Canadian thing eh? (yes it is Canadian to say eh! It is part of our culture, much like you saying este). Instead you try to deflect the real question about who was here first by being racist and claiming Canadians and Americans are the same. Typical. When things don't work out the way you would like, you just act like a thug.
ReplyDeleteSomeone a while back on this blog said that French and English think fundamentally different and that is why we will never get along. I don't want to believe that, but there may be some truth to it. I want to believe all people are generally good at heart, but that's not entirely true (JP for example. Hate dominates his emotions and actions).
Pequistes, much like the French, have an aversion to anything different, while Canadians (English or French, it doesn't matter, people who can read a map and know where they live) revel in diversity. You say Canadians don't have a culture. I say Canadians have one of the greatest cultures in the world. It may not be old, but it is built from the diversity of the population that makes it up. And we are greater than the sum of our parts! I know you hate this fact because you think you're God's gift to Earth, but the Quebecois are just another component of the Canadian identity. Just like the English, Jews, Arabs, even the Americains that live here.
The reason so many Anglophones are mad with the Quebecoise is because we are all in this big family (Canada) and the Quebecoise act like the surely, out of work, alcoholic uncle who thinks he's better than everyone else and blames anyone but himself for his problems.
Some in the ROC may say they want Quebec to leave but really they want you to get over your issues and join the party. Life is good in Canada, and it would be better if there was less infighting. If you can't get over yourself, much like in the uncle analogy, just leave and stop ruining the party for everyone else. Do I need to explain what happens to the self loving/loathing uncle after he leaves the family and they stop paying his rent?
I don’t need or want you to speak English I just want you to be courteous. You can be polite to me in French and I’ll be polite back to you in French. But if you’re mean to me in English or French because I speak English, or because I’m black, or Indian or an Arab, whatever, than you sir are a racist. And in my book, racist are second class citizens.
PS: Go Habs Go! Now that's something we can all agree on.
There was no need for the merger in the 1st place. If they want get rid of the bilingual status of the hospital, they should demerge. I don't know whose idea it was to merge in the 1st place. Lindsay probably had to take up the slack in performance. Doctors I know told me, that without Mcgill Quebecs health system would be even less the mediocre.
ReplyDelete"I don’t need or want you to speak English I just want you to be courteous. You can be polite to me in French and I’ll be polite back to you in French. But if you’re mean to me in English or French because I speak English"
ReplyDeleteEffectivement,si tous les individus avaient cette sagesse,beaucoup de problèmes seraient réglés et pas seulement ici mais partout sur la planète.Si jamais vous maîtrisez le Français.Je vous suggère ce film Français (France) :
"Joyeux Noel" avec Dany Boon (Daniel Hamidou)
Traitant de la fraternité pouvant survenir entre ennemis la veille de Noel sur un champs de bataille.
Dany Boon is a mediocre actor at best. Have you seen "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis"? I couldn't wait for that flick to end.
ReplyDelete"Si jamais vous maîtrisez le Français.Je vous suggère ce film Français (France) :
"Joyeux Noel" avec Dany Boon (Daniel Hamidou)
Traitant de la fraternité pouvant survenir entre ennemis la veille de Noel sur un champs de bataille."
RE: Author December 15, 2010 3:53 PM “Not only do you not mass culture, insignificant little people, but also the main symbols of identity that define a nation are not for you either, little people of identity thieves.”
ReplyDeleteTalk about the pot calling the kettle black: The mass Quebec culture of insignificant little people needing a distinct nation of little people uni-French identity, thieves of English Canadian citizen rights to prop up their frail ego define themselves as a special culture. For you to say Canada has no culture is just a dictatorial lunacy to justify Quebec’s eradication of the English. Your French culture is no better than any other culture on earth and you have no right to destroy the cultures affiliated with the English language just because the Quebec French are insecure. You don’t legislate culture. People embrace the culture they identify with on a personal level. It is not shoved down our throat. Even if we speak French to communicate in Quebec, it does not mean we embrace the Quebec culture, nor does it say we are assimilated. Out of respect for the Quebec situation, we choose to speak French. However, with the continual disparaging attacks on the English, I will no longer speak French and start demanding everything in English. Respect begets Respect. Quebec shows no respects for others, then I have no respect for Quebec and I will not cooperate with their rules. The culture of Canada and the US is a culture of democracy, where the foundation is built on social equality. Democracy is the tool to manage differing opinions, conflict so we all manage to live in peace…somehow to embrace our own culture that we define as our own. However, thus far Canada has been a big failure at managing the democracy to minimize the conflict. Canada’s avoidance of dealing with the language issue or dealing with Quebec just allows the malignant linguistic cancer to aggravate the SJBS French radicals, the carcinogens of Quebec society. There is no chemotherapy for that cancer. We need Federal leadership.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteRe: Author December 15, 2010 11:23 AM
“Realistically, all complaints about this province should be addressed to the federal government and to the UN. Our whining for the past three decades has accomplished nothing. Or we can push for a referendum on the political future of the island as a part of Ontario or a federal protectorate outside the jurisdiction of the petty linguistic fascist zone.”
This is the best idea I have heard yet. Exactly how do we get the Federal Government to assume their responsibility for ensuring that all Canadians citizens are protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights? When the Quebec language laws start infringing on health institutions they are crossing the line. When people are sick they need to know what is going on with their diagnosis, health, treatment etc. With the CSST, the disability laws, labor laws, workman’s compensation laws are all very complicated and employers & employees need to have access to expert information concerning the compliance of these laws to benefit their situation. It affects both financially. Even if you speak French as a second language, when it comes to legal, health or financial issues, we as Canadian citizens should have every right to seek this important information in the language of choice. If it affects us personally, we sure as hell need to understand clearly that you don’t always get in a second language. For Quebec to deny us this right is a pure arrogant dictatorship. Little by little, any English that you used to see by the way of information pamphlets for patients in hospitals, clinics etc. are only available in French in the clinic areas. In the past, it used to be in both languages & this is in some of the English speaking hospitals. If you want anything in English, there are extra hoops to jump through. The English are not second class citizens, but we are being treated as such due to the discriminatory dictatorship of the Quebec government. In no way does this reflect on the English citizens, but it does reveal the audacious haughtiness of the Quebec Tyranny. The problem with the English community has been their passive complacency, which has contributed to the bully running ram shod over our lives. It is time to fight back for our rights.
"...It is time to fight back for our rights."
ReplyDeleteMais de quels droits parlez-vous monsieur?
Vous aviez des droits...Malheureusement,vous n'en avez plus.C'est la vie!
I have been reading and following the comments on this blog for a few weeks now.
ReplyDeleteMy conclusion:
The Quebec is a backwater shithole with attitudes which equal those of the southern US before the time of Martin Luther King. What a disgusting faciste group of nazis. Unfortunate we have this blight in an otherwise great nation.
Canada's last chance!!! Every Quebecois swimming back to France with a bucket of poutine under each arm.
A Proud "Canadian" Westerner
"Malheureusement,vous n'en avez plus."
ReplyDeleteAnd, you have what? Debt, corruption, open legal discrimination and one of the worst economic records in Canada with 30% of the population at or under the poverty line. Really, you have so much!!
don't worry anon 9:26
ReplyDeleteWe plan on getting our rights back. The day will come when we take away quebec ability to keep denying our rights. Its been 33 years since the Quebec government and pur laine chauvanists tried to get rid of the english community in Quebec. Instead of destroying it, it has become stronger. Time is on our side, not the other way around
"...We plan on getting our rights back."
ReplyDeleteComment allez-vous procéder?Vous n'avez même pas un représentant politique au Québec.Harper est totalement impuissant et tous vos alliés vous ont abandonné...Même Charessst,ça va mal.Vous n'êtes même pas en position d'éternuer trop fort au Québec.Vous êtes acculé au mur de notre nationalisme...Pauvres vous!
So that comment just confirms what I have been saying for years, that this faction in QC (about 30-35% of the population, with even a much smaller group of ‘rabid zealots’, nice term Anonymous commenter, that actually get away with their behaviour with impunity) are simply les voleurs de droits - just like Judge Louis Verdone, who not only 'rejected' my right to complain about mistreatment, she put all her 'petit peuple' bias in her decision, even revising history to turn the Clan against someone of her own souche to prevent us from losing Billions before it happened. The $47BN train wreck occurred after I warned everyone, even the Premier Ministre, but the anglophobes didn't and do not want to listen, because it is their collective brain-washing. For more, read:
ReplyDeletehttp://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pNYWSwhB3EBf-MTxkuVxg49RkHOhrfB_vlfjmvtCjnuOhOzlnWXmD-hGdMTdSPPWnsZaVtgXoycfWqswbvGoNrQ/decisCRTsept2010.PDF?download&psid=1
No, the world does not revolve around me (although today I made front page of a Cambridge, UK blog), but I am trying to lead (by standing up to the anti-democratic, anti-equal rights bullies) Quebec out of the dark ages by making those in the govt understand what accountability and a real democracy are, lust like my cousin in the UK, as Information Commissioner: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6844165/Information-Commissioner-pledges-fierce-approach-to-slowcoach-public-officials.html
Jeez, I wonder where I get this from, eh? Moreover, why did Dr. John Shebbeare question Mad King George, or the tyrannical colonial Magistrates in the USA before independence? Because tyranny is tyranny, and nobody will get away with it in the long term, since it always, always leads to failure.
We are the descendants of the Franco-Normans, Scots, Greeks, Irish, Welsh, English etc. and those who try and counter us only end up on a long list of unemployed losers, of which Yves Roy and Rodrigue Lussier, two senior vice presidents of the Caisse de Depot, have added themselves to by means of their racism and Maître chez nous BS.
"Je vous suggère ce film Français (France) :
ReplyDelete"Joyeux Noel" avec Dany Boon (Daniel Hamidou)
Traitant de la fraternité pouvant survenir entre ennemis la veille de Noel sur un champs de bataille."
I saw the movie and enjoyed it, but I also heard about the World War One Christmas Truce directly from my grandfather when I was very young. He was there on the battlefields when it happened. He was in an Irish regiment fighting to liberate France, which, in my opinion, was a mistake. They should have let the Germans keep it.
Many Quebecois refused to fight and hid in the woods while the British, Americans and Anglo-Canadians were defending and liberating the cousins of the Quebecois in France.
anon 11:07
ReplyDeleteWell soon there will be 30 more MPs in the rest of Canada. Ontario, BC, Alberta. That means quebec counts alot less. When Quebec doesn't mean as much politcally its alot easier to go after them. Also all those anglos and allos you sent to the rest of Canada have long memories.
Like i said before bill 101 didn't destroy us, it made us stronger.
When all the pur laine chauvanist types appear on mass on the blog, it means that we are hitting a nerve.
"En effet, le nom que tu portes, petit Canadien, a été pris à une autre nation en 1867. L'hymne national que tu chantes a aussi été pris à cette même autre nation en 1980, tout comme la couleur rouge."
ReplyDeleteCanada once had a different flag (the Red Ensign) and a different anthem (The Maple Leaf Forever). Both of these were replaced by the current, inferior flag and anthem in order to placate the Francophone minority. This was yet another mistake on the part of the feds, because no amount of accommodation will ever satisfy the Franco zealots.
"...When all the pur laine chauvanist types appear on mass on the blog, it means that we are hitting a nerve..."
ReplyDeleteVous nous avez toujours tapé sur les nerfs sauf qu'aujourd'hui il existe ce merveilleux moyen d'échanges démocratique...Les blogues.
"Like i said before bill 101 didn't destroy us, it made us stronger."
ReplyDeleteQuelle coincidence,c'est la même chose pour nous.
Allons canayens tous en coeur...Vive la loi 101!
RE: Hugo Shebbeare December 16, 2010 11:24 AM Commission des relations du travail document
ReplyDeleteWhat a nightmare situation of your Commission des relations du travail document link, noting the complexities of the labor laws and trying to fight the system. Hugo seems to have the tenacity and forbearance to fight the system, which is a laudable goal. Can you imagine an employer or employee with limited French trying to navigate a challenge for their rights against a system where the deck is stacked with biased judges and now they want to eliminate the possibility of employers seeking information in English? The discrimination against the English is so blatant it is revolting.
RE: Hugo Shebbeare December 16, 2010 11:24 AM
ReplyDelete“I am trying to lead (by standing up to the anti-democratic, anti-equal rights bullies) Quebec out of the dark ages by making those in the govt understand what accountability and a real democracy are, just like my cousin in the UK, as Information Commissioner”
Your cousin as the information commissioner has the “responsibility for encouraging the highest standards of data protection and of transparency by public bodies, the business of information rights; a role that is only going to get more and more important," (noted from your link)
That is definitely a key element needed in Quebec “the business of information rights”, the right to transparency, the right to access of information, the right to access to education, the right to knowledge, freedom to choose, freedom from barriers, constraints, the right to privacy, security etc. As the world becomes more complex with global network communication systems and rights issues, we in Quebec are still stuck in a linguistic quagmire dealing with the basic human rights, a conclusion described by so eloquently by the “Proud "Canadian" Westerner December 16, 2010 10:18 AM that “Quebec is a backwater shithole with attitudes which equal those of the southern US before the time of Martin Luther King.” Spot on conclusion P.C.W. News flash Quebec, we are moving into 2011 with a 1960’s mentality, “backwater” bidet dives are backasswards logic contrary to basic common sense.
@ anon 2:12
ReplyDeleteis that why Montreal had become 52% non francophone in 2006 census? What do you think the next census will be like? Also another reason why you have to book a tiny arena to make it appear full for you pro bill 101 rallies?
What will you do when counter protests start in the near future?
"What will you do when counter protests start in the near future?"
ReplyDeleteComme le dit (disait) si bien votre ami Charest :
Nous sommes prêts!
The rational Quebecers should hold a referendum to have Montreal stay part of Canada while evicting the rest of Quebec, after that Canada should cut funding to Quebec and place restrictions on trade, then the second class citizen would be made very obvious. If that were to happen I'd hope the separatists really did like their pontine, because cheese, potatoes and brown gravy would be all that was on the bloody menu.
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