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Kate 21:25 on 2023-06-02 Permalink Reply  

• Daniel 21:35 on 2023-06-02 Permalink

  This makes me wonder: What about the books themselves? Aren’t they a government service? Does having checked out a book in English before a certain date secure my future access?

  (This is all so ridiculous. I’ve always been pretty happy with the BANQ’s book selection in English, btw.)

• Kate 21:56 on 2023-06-02 Permalink

  This page says “Individuals who corresponded solely in English with the civil administration prior to May 13, 2021” may continue to receive communications in English.

  Nice philosophical point. Does a book (which the BAnQ always refers to as a “document”) count as a communication, when it comes from a government‑run library?

• jeather 22:25 on 2023-06-02 Permalink

  If I haven’t communicated solely in English but I am eligible to attend English schools, I assume I’m ok?

• Uatu 23:02 on 2023-06-02 Permalink

  Show me your papers…. so you can read our papers? 😛

• Blork 00:18 on 2023-06-03 Permalink

  Oh, the irony. As an historical-ass motherf*cking anglo, I have the right to read that forbidden content in either English or French, but my Francophone spouse is only allowed to read it in French. That’s what they call progress.

• Mozai 11:04 on 2023-06-03 Permalink

  Didn’t see a ‘chosir langue’ on the BANQ website, but I don’t remember if it was there before last week since I go to the catalogue right-away. Bits and pieces of the BaNQ website are still in English, like the “mon dossier” login form, and the “rechercher” feature flips between “Recherche” and “Search” when I summon it. Maybe ‘mon dossier’ is hosted by a third-party service, and that service picked up that my browser sends a language-preference header ‘en-CA,en,fr’

  If the civil servants knew about webbrowsers sending language preferences, will they block webbrowsers that say ‘en’ before ‘fr’ ?

• Kate 11:38 on 2023-06-03 Permalink

  Mozai, on the BAnQ site you now have to scroll down to the footer for English. I think it used to be at the top where language switchers usually are.

• Kevin 12:17 on 2023-06-03 Permalink

  Blork
  That’s why they call us the best-treated minority :/

• anton 04:33 on 2023-06-05 Permalink

  I feel this will result in a kind of trench mentality (Grabenmentalität), where anglos and allos will maximize their use of English in order to defend their future potential to use English. From this point on, never accept if any branch of government communicates in French with you, even for simple and mundane matters, lest you lose your right to use English for complicated ones.