Language: Legault vs Jolin-Barrette
Tuesday morning, Simon Jolin-Barrette announced a plan to extend the Charte de la langue française to CEGEPs – “La langue française doit être la seule langue commune des Québécoises et Québécois” – but François Legault stepped in and contradicted him by the afternoon. But an expanded Charte is to be expected next spring.
Update: Also Simon J-B: “Quebec was born in French, and it will stay French.” People who speak indigenous languages might like a word with him.
MarcG 17:47 on 2020-11-24 Permalink
Let’s ask a Michigander ce qu’il pense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec#/media/File:Province_of_Quebec_1774.gif
Tim S. 18:49 on 2020-11-24 Permalink
They understand that the people affected by this are francophones who might choose to go to CEGEP in English, right? You know, their potential voters and their families?
steph 20:18 on 2020-11-24 Permalink
I’ve been hearing that “bilingualism means the death of the French language. The government needs to promote unilingual French”. I feel sorry for the future of their children.
Blork 21:57 on 2020-11-24 Permalink
Well, to be fair, the political and social entity known as Quebec that dates to about 1600 was “born in French.” Not to be confused with the geographical entity of Quebec, which has been around for millions of years. But saying it that way means you need to also agree that the political/social entity of Quebec was also born out of conquest and colonialism.
Uatu 14:49 on 2020-11-25 Permalink
Looks like learning English is exclusively for those who can afford private lessons or can send the kids out of province for university- i.e the political class of QC.
Tim S. 20:15 on 2020-11-25 Permalink
Also, the class that might own or manage QMI.