Quebec vs English, again and again
Quebec is working on a policy to limit access to government services in English to old-school anglos; Carlos Leitão asks how people will be qualified. Old-schoolers should get their family tree in order, I suppose. You! Citizen! Where was your grandfather born?
This is relevant to Montreal because the majority of Quebec anglos live here. I’m not dipping further into the related issue of CAQ immigration reforms cutting off international students who expected to fast-track into Quebec residency based on their educational qualifications because it could conceivably involve issues outside the city limits.
But I will say this: each of the CAQ’s major moves pushes Quebec to be smaller, poorer, whiter and less skilled. It’s the Quebec a lot of folks evidently want, or at least feel comfortable with, but it’s not really the Quebec we need for the 21st century.
jeather 15:45 on 2019-11-05 Permalink
Apparently this is all because of the horrors of some people getting English bills from Hydro Quebec
willard 17:19 on 2019-11-05 Permalink
If its caused because of Hydro bills, then HQ can just avoid it all + stop billing people…
Spi 17:39 on 2019-11-05 Permalink
What if a white-francophone wants to receive his or her communications from the government in english? Are they allowed?
Chris 17:52 on 2019-11-05 Permalink
Let’s all speculate wildly based on preliminary information! 🙂 I would guess “old-school anglos” would get defined as anyone here already, i.e. a grandfather clause, and the new rules would be applied to new arrivals. (This is neither an endorsement nor opposition.)
PS: How is it that in 2019 CTV can’t get the accents on Leitão?!
Uatu 18:21 on 2019-11-05 Permalink
I always found it funny that there’s a whole lot of posturing about government services only in french, but if you need tax forms in english, they’re readily available from Revenue QC. I guess $$ trumps all in this case
Michael Black 18:45 on 2019-11-05 Permalink
A later story is saying “according to Bill 101” . That makes a certain sense, but I’m not sure I can find proof. And of course, it’s not that your parents could go to English school, it’s that after a certain date you couldn’t go unless a parent had. But none of that is in handy documentation. Initially I thought a birth certificate would be okay, but not everyone has a good Scottish last name. It is easier for those born early enough, at least if born here.
Kate 20:38 on 2019-11-05 Permalink
Here’s the story.
Kevin 22:05 on 2019-11-05 Permalink
At this rate the Quebec:Canada population ratio will be under 20% in a decade
jeather 09:07 on 2019-11-06 Permalink
My prediction is they will realise quite quickly this is unworkable so they will require French on all bills, you can get French-only or bilingual, and they will redo all the phone trees so it’s even harder to get it in English, and then the matter will be quietly ignored.