Quebec is “paying to anglicize” itself
An academic researcher is condemning how Quebec subsidizes anglophone universities which he claims have the effect of anglicizing the culture – but he’s complaining how some of this money goes to students from the rest of Canada and elsewhere, so they were not Quebec residents to start with, undermining the idea that they’re anglicizing anybody important.
Anyway, of course he says Quebec should stop funding anglophone universities and only pay people to study in French.
Meantime, Denise Bombardier is mad that Québec solidaire is not separatist enough, but even she must be aware that most people voting QS are doing so because it’s the lefty option, not because of its pro forma kowtow to the old gods of Quebec nationalism.
(Put that Journal de Montréal down, I know.)
jeather 13:52 on 2023-03-20 Permalink
Ok, I think I see what he is saying. He says that tuition rates have 3 pots: from Quebec (this is a very weird group that does not always include who you think it includes) or la francophonie, rest of Canada, everyone else. This is true. He also says that this means that Quebec is subsidising the first two groups because otherwise they would be charged the same rate as the third group. I have no idea if this is true. He then has weird statistics that Quebec pays on average either 5k or 35k per student, based on I can’t guess what because his numbers make zero sense.
Uatu 10:34 on 2023-03-21 Permalink
They should really crack down on the international organizations like IATA. The ones that the government bends language laws to bring here. That’d be a great example of Le leadership.
Kevin 11:42 on 2023-03-21 Permalink
This is a reaction to last week’s item that you can’t avoid English in university.
Let’s see if today’s provincial budget makes cuts to university education…
jeather 12:46 on 2023-03-21 Permalink
There’s this entirely reasonable piece saying this isn’t just a problem for Quebec, or francophones, with a few reasonable suggestions of where to start, and then the batshit comments about how English is not capable of expressing nuance and that bilingualism makes you stupid.