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Kate 09:48 on 2019-02-19 Permalink Reply  

• david100 06:09 on 2019-02-22 Permalink

  I read the english version. Man, it’s cruel but I get a particular satisfaction whenever I read about the misfortunes and various travails of the french. I’d not want to do a wave of deportations, but it gives me pleasure to see them face the reality that they’re economic migrant scum, and looked down upon by a large number of Montrealers and people from Quebec more generally.

• Kate 08:57 on 2019-02-22 Permalink

  david100, that’s an offensive comment. I may delete it shortly but, either way, longtime commenter though you are, you’re on warning.

• david100 03:23 on 2019-02-23 Permalink

  Yeah, I don’t mind if you delete. It was maybe too arch to just write out, but I was definitely joking. Literally, some of my best friends are French. But yeah, delete.

• david100 03:25 on 2019-02-23 Permalink

  Ie. the joke is that the French have a specific attitude like the people in Quebec are sort of lower, and it’s always really funny to razz them about the disjunction between their attitudes and the fact of their being in Montreal for economic purposes.

• Kate 10:10 on 2019-02-23 Permalink

  I don’t know which French you’re meeting, david100. The French folks I’ve encountered – coworkers, neighbours, people serving in stores – have all been great. I’ve come away with a strong sense that this wave of immigrants is a major plus for Quebec, and certainly for Montreal, where I imagine most of them choose to settle. If some Quebec francophones feel sheepish about their use of the language vis-à-vis their French acquaintances, I’m inclined to suspect it’s their problem, and not the French being snobby. (I’ve seen similar attitudes in North American anglos when they encounter people from England.)