City pressed to create council for French
Faced with the decline of French in the city, city hall is being pressed by Hadrien Parizeau to create a council to promote French before the November election.
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Jack 09:36 on 2021-06-24 Permalink
I wonder where he will get the money and ethnic votes to make this happen?
Uatu 09:55 on 2021-06-24 Permalink
Ugh. As a visible minority I’m getting ready to have to deal with the random fear and disdain from strangers. Just the other day I got lectured by some Karen because I was talking in English and my white friend got guilt tripped because how am I going to learn French if we’re using English even though I can speak French but hey I’m not white so that means I’m some new immigrant right? Apparently talking about Wandavision in English in the Metro is an assault on the language and culture of QC. But that’s the election cycle of QC. Every couple of years I get to be the de facto cause of everything wrong in the province.
Kate 10:02 on 2021-06-24 Permalink
Uatu, I know, and I’m sorry. I’m white but I’ve seen it: once, walking down St-Denis talking with a friend (Chinese from HK, but been here almost all his life) a random guy ran up and screamed in our faces to speak French, and more recently, on the bus, I watched as two young Black women, who’d been talking together so quietly I hadn’t noticed them nor had any idea what language they were speaking, were lectured by an older white woman about how they had no business speaking English in public. I could think of other incidents but these are two I’ve not forgotten.
Read MBC today. He seems to forget that if only white post-Catholic francophones are true Québécois, it kind of doesn’t matter what the rest of us do, because we’re not Québécois, we’re aliens. What would he do with us, if he had his way, I wonder.
Jack: nice reference.
JS 14:07 on 2021-06-24 Permalink
Can’t we all just learn to politely tell these people to va chier and to criss nous la paix hostie de mongol and be done with it?
Ant6n 14:40 on 2021-06-24 Permalink
Or how about telling those fascists to stop infringing in other people’s charter rights, and also stop listening in on their private conversations.
dhomas 16:10 on 2021-06-24 Permalink
I speak to my kids exclusively in English and my wife speaks to them exclusively in French. One time at the grocery store when I had just moved East of Pie-IX, I was speaking to my kid and some lady told me that I should speak French in Quebec. I took immense pleasure in responding in perfect Québécois “J’te garantis que mon français est meilleur que ton anglais.”
My kids are perfectly bilingual. I think that’s a good thing, but I somehow think Hadrien Parizeau and the CAQ government disagree.
On a separate topic, how can anyone take Hadrien Parizeau seriously? This guy is a girouette, switching from party to party, whenever he feels like it. He started with Coderre, worked with PM, got expelled from Ensemble, and is now back with Coderre. What a joke. I hope his association with Coderre brings them both down. Two turkeys don’t make an eagle.