French versus English Volume 17

Gilles Duceppe misleads Scots?

Gilles Duceppe continued the current edition of his "Idiot Abroad" tour, speaking to a classroom of students at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland.
The prestigious event might have lasted longer than 50 minutes, but as the teacher explained,
the classroom would have to be relinquished for the next class.
 HA! HA! Very prestigious.
During the Q&A , after the speech, Gilles Duceppe got asked some tough questions on language.

A couple of Quebec students studying abroad at the university, decided to torment Duceppe.  One student wrapped in a Canadian flag and another wearing a Montreal Canadiens hockey shirt asked the politician why English education in Quebec  is restricted.
Instead of backing up that policy of Bill 101, the weasel told the questioner that French students could go to English Cegeps and universities, without mentioning that his party wants to change all this.  

You can watch the whole tedious classroom lecture in which Mr. Duceppe lays out his plan for Quebec's  quest for 'sovereigning' (sic)   LINK

You can read an embarrassing  news report about the incident here LINK fr

Question to readers..... How come Duceppe is never confronted like this in Canada?

Gilles Proulx's racist rant on TV
Gilles Proulx is another longtime anglo basher in the fine mould of Pierre Falardeau who has a nasty and condescending tone. Another ageing and frustrated separatist, he loses it on Mario Dumont's nightly TV show, when discussing the possibility of converting Cegeps to teach bilingually. Suffice to say that he is opposed to such an idea.
He goes nuts and refers to Anglophones as "tête carré " a slur equivalent to calling francophones "Frogs" or "Peppers." He uses the term four times during the segment as well as calling the Italian community  "Voyous," the same term that Pierre-Karl Péladeau is suing over. Then he complains that the Italians play Mafia music in their restaurants and before finishing up,  he disparages the Greek community because although they speak French, they speak English to each other.
There's no subtitles but you can catch the drift, even if you don't speak French. Mario Dumont, never called him out on the slurs, but La Presse columnist  Marc Cassivi did so in an article entitled  "Le racisme à deux vitesses," where the writer points out the double standard over racial insults. LINK

Interestingly, I viewed the closed captioning, the subtitles provided for the deaf and the person doing the translation refused to put the word 'tête carré' on the screen, all four times. Hah!

Pauline Marois meets the Governor General

It must have felt like a trip to the principle's office when Pauline Marois, the separatist leader of the opposition Parti Quebecois greeted the Governor-General David Johnston in her National Assembly office!
The tete-a-tete was a courtesy call, one that Madame Marois didn't want memorialized and so she barred photographers from snapping pictures.
 The visit fell exactly on the fifteenth anniversary of the famous "Unity Rally" the federalist love-in that occurred three days before the 1995 referendum.
Not lost on Madame Marois is the fact that the Governor-General was then the co-president of the NO committee!
PQ directer of communications,  Pascal Monette, pooh-poohed the whole affair and characterized it as no big deal, telling reporters that it is normal to meet 'foreign' dignitaries...SWEET!

Quebeckers mourn the loss of Internet address

The Canadian organization that is charged with managing the 1.5 million  '.ca'  Internet addresses  (CIRA) has announced it will no longer register the 'qc.ca"
The blow to proud Quebeckers who want some reference to their province in their Internet domain name has inspired them to apply to the international organization that controls these things, to add a new appellation- ".québec" complete with accent.  Link

Bilingualism good for the brain

"A growing body of research shows that regularly speaking two languages comes with certain types of improved mental performance....
Being able to use two languages and never knowing which one you're going to use right now rewires your brain," says Ellen Bialystok of York University in Toronto, whose work Diamond cited repeatedly in the article." LINK
Asked to comment, a certain French language militant admitted that this may be true, but asserts that there's no proof that this second language must be English!

ADISC- Don't apply if you're English

"Founded in 1978 to defend the interests of its members and promote the development of the music industry in Quebec, the Quebec Association of the music industry, entertainment and video (ADISQ) is a nonprofit professional association." ADISC website

So says the unilingually French web site which fails to tell Quebeckers, that if they are anglophone they are to be treated as second class citizens.
Like the JUNOS, this organization hands out prizes, called Félix, each year to celebrate the best Quebec musical and video artists, the best that is, if you sing in French. 
Anglos, and everyone else is not eligible for 'artist of the year.' So the likes of Bobby Banzini, clearly the best this year, is not eligible. 
The organization defends itself by pointing out that it does offer a prize for the best English album of the year, but it remains firm that artists eligible for 'artist of the year' must sing in French.

Diane Pinet, Bobby Barzini's agent, wondered out loud how Francophones would feel if French artists were to be banned from competing at the JUNO awards. LINK

By the way the ADISQ web site sports the HERITAGE CANADA  logo at the bottom of the page indicating that Ottawa underwrites a portion of it's activities. LINK

Luc Plamadon unloads on English

On the day that the aging composer was to receive an award from SOCAN, (Société canadienne des auteurs et compositeurs de musique,) the Canadian organization that collects royalties for artists, Plamandon gave a nasty interview in the Journal de Montreal where he delighted in trashing English and Anglophones rather cruelly, giving value to the old adage that 'there's no whore like an old whore.'

For those who don't know who he is, Plamondon is a prolific francophone composer whose most famous piece is the rock opera, STARMANIA. If you don't know what STARMANIA is, don't worry, it's no TOMMY or HAIR. It's a rather tedious, cheaply staged musical whose only claim to fame is that it is written and sung in French.

At any rate, the nasty old fart, delighted in telling the Journal de Montreal how much he dislikes English and Anglophones. He recounted how, on the eve of a revival of STARMANIA,  staged at Montreal's Place des Arts theatre, he threw a last minute hissy fit, demanding that the simultaneous translation screens that offered English subtitles be removed.

"I wasn't going to kneel down before the three board members of the l'Opera de Monreal,  who didn't speak French" Plamondon en croisade

He then went on to complain that the ritzy fundraisers held around the city were run bilingually;

"I ask myself, why are we obliged to give speeches in both languages?" Plamondon en croisade

Err.... Perhaps it's because it's the Anglophones that give the bulk of the money?

He voiced his support for the ADISQ decision to bar Quebeckers who sing in English from being eligible for "Artist of the Year' award. (See above article)
He then went on to complain about the Festival d’été de Québec, because of its policy in bringing in top name talent like the Black-Eyed Peas or Santana.  "They don't need government funds to survive" Another falsehood.
The reality is that the Festival makes money on these 'marquee' artists, because it is they who are the major attractions that generate tickets sales and bring in the tourists. Quebecois talent serve as opening acts for the real shows. When Quebecois talent perform alone at the festival, crowds are a fraction of what the big names perform to. At any rate, Quebecois talent can be seen for nothing at the free shows paid for by the government each year at the multitude of St. Jean Baptiste concerts, so why pay.
Read a piece about the success of Quebec's Festival d’été and their refusal to cave into language militants LINK

Who earns more, Francophone or Anglophone Quebeckers?

The very stupid and public debate between Jack Jedwab and Charles Castonguay over who earns more, Francophone or Anglophone Quebeckers fails to capture the most salient point. Both earn less than the average Canadian family and both are left with much less after Quebec's confiscatory taxes are factored in.

"An average Quebec family earned $77,738 this year and paid $33,310 in taxes, representing 42.8% of its income. An average Canadian family earned $ 92.754, or 19.3% more than us, with a lower tax rate.
More worrisome still: the average Quebec family earned $16 less in 2010 than in 2009, while the average Canadian family earned $1816 more."Republiques de /Bananes, Author Serge Rouleau

Yikes!

Enjoy your weekend!

More Quebec Corruption- Yawn!

Pretty soon Quebec newspapers will have to start running stories about Quebec mayors who are honest, as the old "man bites dog' journalistic expression goes. That's how depressingly routine stories about the dishonest ones are!

The latest bombshell surrounds Laval's Gilles Vaillancourt. The mayor of Quebec's second largest city was accused in no uncertain terms of offering illegal campaign contributions.

"Bloc Québécois MP Serge Ménard and Liberal MNA Vincent Auclair both publicly alleged Tuesday that Laval Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt offered them envelopes of cash – in 1993 in Mr. Ménard’s case and 2002 for Mr. Auclair." LINK

Do I look like a crook?

As usual in these cases, the mayor is brazening it out, denying it all. He's also refusing to step aside temporarily to clear his name.

I'll remind readers that in a column I wrote last week, Quebec Towns Swimming in Cesspool of Corruption, that I mentioned Laval as a city where dubious governance issues swirled around the latest big ticket construction project.

To say that Quebeckers are fed up with corruption is an understatement. The people of the fair city of Laval, who voted massively for the mayor, giving him a 100% majority on town council last election, now want him out.
In a quicky poll published in the Journal de Montreal 57% have said that they have lost confidence in the mayor and believe by a margin of 3 to 1 that Menard and Auclair are telling the truth.

La Presse's chief editorialist, Andre Pratte has finally said in print what everyone knows, that the Maclean's article was essentially true, Quebec is the most corrupt province. 

He also added a laundry list of accusations;

• The process of awarding public works contracts is discredited; 
• The system of financing political parties engenders nothing but suspicion.
• The reputation of the FTQ, the various construction contractors and engineering firms is tainted.
• The cynicism towards the political class is bigger than ever.
• The Premier's credibility is in tatters. Link

This from a writer who is accused by nationalists of being a Liberal Party apologist!

Wait I'm not finished!!
Remember last week when I was one of the first to write publicaly that  Jacques Duchesneau, who was hired by the Premier to clean up corruption mess, was himself under investigation.
Here's what I said;

"At any rate, rumour has it that Duchesneau is on the outs with the Premier over some sort of alleged skeleton in his closet, that has recently started to rattle rather loudly." LINK

Today it's been announced that he's under investigation for allegedly receiving donations through fake or borrowed names in his mayoral run twelve years ago. The use of these 'prête-noms' circumvents limits that individuals can donate.
Too bad, I've known and worked with Jacques and think he was bamboozled by over-zealous by staff. His team was slapped together rather quickly. The brother of very, very, rich Quebecker was involved with the fund-raising. Although rich he wasn't very experienced and was typical of those involved in the ex-police chief's campaign.
Jacques himself was never very hands on and delegated all the real work, while concentrating on hob-nobbing, shaking hands and climbing the fame ladder. It's really a case of him taking the fall for his underlings.

Yet another, bombshell!
The QFL, the 600,000 member union that has also been opposing an inquiry into the construction industry has caved; 

"As fresh allegations of corruption continue to surface in Quebec, the province's largest union in the construction industry called Wednesday for a public inquiry, leaving Premier Jean Charest's government the only one resisting calls for a public probe.

It's an about-face for the Quebec Federation of Labour, which is opposed to a broad inquiry into the mounting allegations of mob infiltration in construction contracting, shady party financing and cronyism.

"We are asking the government to hold a public inquiry, we think the time has come for that," QFL president Michel Arsenault told a news conference Wednesday." LINK

And so the Premier is finally cornered. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

Calling an inquiry will be fatal. Not calling one, probably fatal. What would you choose?

Construction types have already sent the message through the grapevine, that if the Premier calls an inquiry they're going to bleed all over him. Ouch!

It doesn't matter what's true or not, we've already seen in the Bastarache commission that lying under oath is a no-brainer for politicians.

At that august inquiry, Premier Charest and the ex-justice minister, Marc Bellemare, both swore to tell the truth and then contradicted each other over the most basic of facts, whether or not they met on a certain Saturday night.
Somebody's lying, it's either Tweedledee or Tweedledum,. (My money's on Bellemare being the liar, he and his wife both look shifty!)
Besides, I don't think that Jean Charest would have called an inquiry if he was guilty. The ominous warning that Bellemare alleges the Premier gave him (not to discuss the money and judges) just doesn't jive with the Premier's mannerisms. In real life Charest would have gotten someone else to give the warning.

In the Laval affair, we can be fairly certain of one thing, either Vallaincourt or Menard is a liar. No use putting it politely. I'll leave it to readers to guess who I think is the liar.

And so we can be fairly certain that in any construction inquiry, people will lie their asses off, oath or no oath. It seems that public inquiries no longer have the gravitas they once enjoyed. Have we already forgotten the ridiculous testimony offered in the Fredy Villanueva inquiry whereby one of the gangsters told one nose stretcher after another with nary an admonition by the  judge. 

Unless you're Guy Lafleur, you can tell the biggest lie without any sanction.

So instead of wasting time with inquiries that may ultimately prove nothing, perhaps I can offer a better solution.

Let's create a television game show called "Qui Dit Vrai?" (Who's telling the Truth)
We can get the ever lovely Julie Snyder (as long as her husband doesn't participate) to be host of the show where opponents will face off against each other.

• Charest versus Bellemare
• Vallaincourt versus Menard
• Tony Accurso versus ....er....pick'em..

Each contestant would take a lie detector test, live on air and be asked the essential questions that the public would like resolved.
"Did money influence the appointments of judges?"
"Did you lie about that meeting?"
"Did you offer an envelope of money?" etc. etc.

The lie detector tester would then make an oral report to a panel of three judges (any recommendations?) who would then vote as to who they believed told the truth.
The public, of course, would vote as well and the two scores would be combined and unveiled on a results show the next day. Need I go on?

If one of the antagonists refused the invitation to appear, the other will be deemed to have told the truth by default.
Loto-Quebec could create a betting line and allow the public to wager on the outcome, like they do on professional sports!

A TV show would be just as much fun as an inquiry and a helluva lot cheaper!

As an insurance policy against more corruption on city councils, how about this idea!

Separatists Blame Marois to Hide Truth

Yesterday the Montreal Gazette published a Léger poll which showed that if an election were held today the PQ would form the next Quebec provincial government.

While one would assume that this would come as good news to separatists, a closer look indicates that they've got a lot to worry about.

The Parti Quebecois lead the Liberals 37% to 33%, a margin that is incredibly close considering how unpopular the Liberals are, if we are to believe the Press.

Amazingly, while Mr. Charest's personal popularity is at it's lowest historical level, the Liberals are trailing the PQ by a scant four percentage points.
It's hard to believe that the Liberals can sink any lower and if this is the bottom, it doesn't look so bad. Given the Liberal party's sad performance, the PQ should be sitting somewhere between 50% and 60%, but they are not. 

The PQ militant wing and a compliant 'Clique du Plateau' (my new favourite phrase to describe Quebec's separatist Press) have been selling the fiction that it is Madame Marois' personal unpopularity that is holding the PQ back. This is a fantasy.

The real reason that the race remains close is not because of Madame Marois' so-called unpopularity, but the Parti Quebecois militants' continued push for a referendum that is turning voters off.

While Marois realizes a referendum is a political drag extraordinaire and has tried to back away from it, the radicals, the same ones that torpedo almost every PQ leader,  continue to sell a pipe dream that voters are not willing to buy anymore.

To paraphrase a Bill Clinton election saying- "It's the referendum, stupid!"

And though the PQ may be ahead in the polls now, they haven't created much separation between themselves and the Liberals. It's hard to see them doing any better, given the horrendous circumstances that the Liberals find themselves in.
Let's face it, could things get any worse for Mr. Charest?

The ball and chain that a referendum represents is the driving force in the political movement that Francois Legault represents. He has promised Quebeckers that he'll skip an un-winnable referendum, but remain strongly nationalistic, music to the ears of most Quebeckers.

Polls indicate that a new party led by Mr. Legault would defeat the PQ and the Liberals in an election. Worse still for the PQ, they would likely finish third in that scenario.

But the biggest disaster that the PQ may face, is to have their fondest wish fulfilled, that is, a Charest resignation.
A  renewed Liberal party under new and popular leader, say Denis Coderre or even Regis Lebaume, would also likely beat the PQ.

As for referendums, one small nugget of information in that same poll was perhaps the most interesting part of all.

 "Meanwhile, only five per cent of Quebecers whose first language is other than French would vote for the Bloc,..." LINK

We all know that in the 1995 referendum the anglos and allophones were blamed for the YES loss and to be honest, quite rightly so. They voted massively in favour of Canada. 

The separatists have always maintained that this would change with time, but apparently it hasn't, if the Leger poll is to be believed.
According to this poll, 95% of anglos and ethnic Quebeckers would not vote for the Bloc Quebecois and it isn't a great leap to say that by logical extension, they would also vote NO in another referendum.

Since 20% of Quebeckers don't have French as their mother tongue, it means that 19% of that 20% pool, would vote NO in a new referendum.
That's quite a handicap for the YES side. It means that of the remaining 80% that are francophone, 62% of them would have to vote YES for a referendum to pass.
Each year, with more and more immigrants arriving, that number goes up.

Many Quebeckers, even sovereignists, have realized that perhaps the tipping point has been passed.

The PQ finds itself between a rock and a hard place. If militants force Marois out and replace her with a more militant leader or even if they force her to promote another referendum, they are toast.

The election is almost two years away, plenty of time for the PQ to self-destruct. The real political drama in Quebec will be be the referendum struggle within the PQ.

Depending on who wins, so will go the fortunes of the party.

Amir Khadir's Silence is Deafening

Yesterday and Sunday saw a lot of traffic generated on this humble blog in regards to a post I wrote a while back concerning Amir Khadir and his communist past, a history that he isn't too keen to see exposed. See Amir Khadir Has a Lot to Hide.

Apparently, someone in the Twitter world, with quite a following, posted a link which was re-tweeted by Jeff Fillion, Quebec radio's most influential shock-jock.

All this renewed interest in Mr. Khadir and his past is based on a controversial radio interview given by Quebec conservative wunderkind, Éric Duhaime, who accused Khadir of having a secret Islamic agenda! You can listen to Duhaime's rant in French on RadioEgo here.

For those without French, the outburst was short and sweet, with Duhaime accusing the Quebec solidaire Parliamentarian of hiding an Islamic agenda, (whatever that is.) He also called on party leader  Françoise David to clarify whether this position represents that of Quebec solidaire.

You'd think that Khadir would have had something to say in reaction, it isn't every day a politician in a western Parliament is called an Islamist.

Other public personalities seem to be a lot less tolerant than Mr. Khadir when it comes to enduring  these sort of attacks. Perhaps Mr. Khadir understands that the truth is an absolute defense against libel.

Readers will note that Premier Charest is furious at Action Démocratique du Québec leader Gérard Deltell who made an 'in your face' accusation intimating that the Premier is the corrupt leader of a corrupt party, calling him, “the godfather of the Liberal family.”  LINK
After demanding a retraction in vain, the Premier is now considering another libel lawsuit.

Pierre-Karl Péladeau, Quebec's leading media tycoon was so furious that a Radio Canada executive called him a 'VOYOU' that he sued him for defamation, a case presently being heard in court. LINK 

And of course let's not forget our favourite businessman, Tony Accurso, who's name has been linked to so many corruption scandals that it's hard to keep count. Even he is taking legal action to defend his 'good' name! Link fr

It appears that Amir Khadir has a much thicker skin. Either that, or he is frightened to confront the allegations in public.
Denying one is an Islamist or a communist is about as bad as denying that one is a pedophile.
Not much upside.

Mr. Duhaime has previously run an exposé on Mr. Khadir's past links to the Communist party of Quebec and his association with a banned terror group. LINK
Mr. Khadir wisely chose to ignore that story. It would be hard to deny the facts, being what they are.

Wisely he hunkered down and let the controversy play itself out, confident that an obliging press would let the issue die, which it did.

That's because the majority of Quebec journalists, media and television personalities are left-wing and separatist.
According to the industry magazine ' Trente,' an organ of the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec, fully one-third of Quebec journalists live in the Plateau Mont-Royal district of Montreal, the socialist Shangri-la and kingdom of Amir Khadir. Link

In fact, over half of Quebec's working journalists live in Montreal and almost all share this "Clique du Plateau" mentality, a liberal, nationalist, separatist dogma that is attacked on a daily basis on the excellent blog "La Clique de Plateau."

By the way..... In researching this article I came across a press release from Mr. Khadir, entitled "Amir Khadir meets an Israeli member of Parliament." Given Mr. Khadir's pathological hatred of Israel, the headline intrigued me.
Of course it turns out that the Parliamentarian was an Arab Israeli who is visiting Canada to  convince us to boycott and divest from Israel.
Really.
Yup... a member of the Israeli Parliament. (reminds me of Gilles Duceppe.)
Could this occur in Iran, Egypt, Syria or any other Muslim country in the world? Do you think Mr. Khadir sees the irony?

And so Khadir continues to enjoy a free ride in the Quebec media.

BUT NOT HERE...

More Statistical Drivel-This Time by an Anglo!

Regular readers know that I take great exception to the statistical drivel that pours out of the sovereignist camp, a dazzling array of fact, fiction, manipulation and outright lies meant to overwhelm readers and shift public opinion in the most dishonest of manner.

Just last week Jacques Noël, the prolific statistical sleight of hand artist, who skillfully turns Quebec water into wine, used his powers of selective data to skewer an article printed in La Presse, "Péréquation: plutôt 1200$ à chacun!" written by Pierre Simard, a professor at l'École nationale d'administration publique, in Quebec City. LINK 

"For the fiscal year of 2010-2011, the Government of Quebec will receive $8.5 billion in transfers in federal equalization payments, or 60% of the 14.4 billion paid to all 'have not' provinces.  This amount represents 13% of the 65.5 billion projected revenues of the province of Quebec. A gift, considering that Quebec taxpayers contribute about 20% federal tax revenues. In sum, 80% of that Equalization cheque is funded by our friends in the Rest of Canada (ROC)......"

For fiscal year 2010-2011, each of us  receive a cheque of about $1,200 or $4,800 for a family of four." LINK

 I don't think that this is an earth-shattering revelation, but the impact on a family is quite eye-opening, especially to those of you in provinces paying the freight. Ahem..

But according to Mr. Noel's logic, the equalization payment to Quebec is not charity at all, it's well deserved, nothing more than make up payments for all the shortfalls Quebec is subjected to.
He provides a laundry list of federal programs where Quebec gets 'less' than its fair share, but conveniently forgets about those programs where it gets more.

Mr. Noel might well have been a contortionist in a previous life to come up with all the billions that Quebec is supposedly short-changed each year. It makes for amusing reading and is so patently absurd that only the most militant nationalists could take it seriously.

Unfortunately, disinformation, bad statistics and misinterpretation is a two way street.
It would be remiss of me not to pass judgment on those in the Anglophone community that sink to the same level.

While the number of anglophone journalists and experts that engage in such voodoo analysis pales in comparison to those on the nationalist side, it  behooves me to call them out just the same.

Last summer Jack Jebwab of the Quebec Community Groups Network, came out with a study that asserted that Francophone Quebeckers make slightly more on average than anglophone Quebeckers. Immediately those numbers were challenged by Claude Castonguay, a retired mathematics professor and frequent contributor to sovereignist commentaries. He 'proved' Mr. Jedwab's numbers wrong and a war of statistics erupted in the press over methodology.  LINK fr.

A study to find out whether francophones make more money than anglophones, by it's very nature is suspect because it is agenda-driven. I wonder, if  Mr. Jedwab's study had proved the opposite, that anglos make more than francophones, if he'd have published the results. Methinks, no.

It reminds me of the Journal de Montreal sending a reporter to downtown Montreal to see if she could get a job speaking only English.
These 'studies' are self-fulfilling and always prove what the author intends.

Interestingly both Mr. Jedwab and Mr. Castonguay both tried to prove that their own respective linguistic communities made less than the other, in order to better play the victim card.
It's these type of arguments between idiots that we should steer a wide berth around.

Last week Mr. Jebwad was at it again, touting a poll that indicated that francophone Quebeckers were much less open to Jews than English Canadians Americans, Spaniards and Germans.

"English Canadians have some of the most open attitudes toward Jews and the Holocaust, while French Canadians are among the least open, according to a new public opinion poll of attitudes in four countries.....

The poll, commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies and released exclusively to Postmedia News, found that only 34% of French-speaking Canadians felt Jews shared their values compared to 73% of English-speaking Canadians." LINK

The numbers were so staggeringly different that I immediately became suspicious. It painted francophones in a particularly bad light, so bad in fact that it made me wince. 

I know a rogue poll when I see one, this was one of the worst examples of a loaded question, bound to elicit different responses from different groups.

First things first. 

Had the question asked to francophones, substituted 'Anglophones' for 'Jews,' I am sure that the results would have been remarkably similar.

Culture means very different things to Francophone Quebeckers than Anglophone Canadians.

In Quebec, one can never get away from language. Francophones are married to the concept of language as an integral and founding element of their culture and values. It is how they define themselves.

A Jewish family may live next door to a Christian family or a Muslim family in Brampton, but they all speak the same language in the street, at school, at work and at play. They read the same English newspapers and magazines, watch the same television and listen to the same English radio.

The same goes for Jews in Spain who all speak Spanish, German for Jews in Germany and English for Jews in America.

It's for good reason that the saying "We speak the same language" means that we're on the same wavelength.

In Quebec Jews and Francophones share the same province but largely live in two different worlds, not because anybody is racist, but rather because they don't share the same language and to a very large extent, culture.

Ask a Quebec Jew, what a FELIX is and he' might answer you, that it's fifty percent of the ODD COUPLE, instead of the Quebec music award similar to a JUNO.
There's quite a cultural divide.

Quebec Jews and Francophones don't read the same newspapers and magazines, don't watch the same television and go to the different schools.

Ask Quebec Jews if Francophone Quebeckers share their values and you may very well get the same percentage as answered by the francophones.

So what?

The poll casts a poor light on francophones and intimates that they are twice more unaccepting of Jews than English Canadians. Bah!

If you believe that than I suggest that you read Jacques Noel for more fantasy.

The very idea that Quebeckers are less accepting than Spaniards of Jews flies in the face of the many studies that indicate that Spain is the most antisemitic country in the western world. Strange considering that there are less than 12,000 Jews in the whole country, about the same amount found in the Montreal suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux!

"According to a recent study published by the Pew Research Center, nearly half of all Spaniards have negative views of Jews, a statistic that marks Spain as one of the most anti-Semitic countries in Europe." LINK

Once again Mr Jedwab's research is shoddy.
He has gratuitously besmirched Francophone Quebeckers in their attitudes towards Jews.
Bad research. Bad methodology.
Shame...