Protest marks 2nd year of Russian invasion of Ukraine
A protest was held downtown Saturday to mark the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some Ukrainians said nice things about their welcome in Quebec, but that may be coming to an end soon for those who haven’t learned French fast enough.
Annette 02:48 on 2024-02-25 Permalink
Ethnonationalist policymaking may just be taken for granted in Quebec, but never lose sight of its heartless and inhumane implementations. This just makes it so explicit.
Meezly 11:53 on 2024-02-25 Permalink
Apparently when the CAQ reduced the French proficiency requirements from 4 to 2 years, they got a lot of criticism as to how unrealistic that was. They adopted a “let’s see” approach. Now there is proof that their requirements are completely unrealistic.
Once again, people have to fight and waste time/energy on an idiotic ideologically-based policy that should have been based on data and practical evidence. I just hope it’ll be another strike against the hopefully waning public opinion of the CAQ.
qatzelok 13:08 on 2024-02-25 Permalink
Ukraine protects its language much more violently than Quebec does. Even to the point of making Russian “non-official” and then bombing Russian-speaking regions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Ukraine_%22On_protecting_the_functioning_of_the_Ukrainian_language_as_the_state_language%22
Kate 14:58 on 2024-02-25 Permalink
qatzelok, let’s not play zero-sum here, OK?
Tim S. 15:05 on 2024-02-25 Permalink
Q, the Wikipedia article you cite sounds very similar to the situation in Quebec. I’m not quite sure where you think the difference is.
As for the bombing, well, you’ve had two years to move beyond Russian propoganda and have chosen not to. For everyone else, the Polish Foreign minister explains everything to the UN better than I can:
https://news.sky.com/video/polish-foreign-minister-corrects-the-record-for-russia-in-un-security-council-meeting-13080530
Kate 18:19 on 2024-02-25 Permalink
A very reasoned statement there, Tim S. Thanks.
Annette 16:32 on 2024-02-26 Permalink
Weak troll, Q: see remarks above, thanks Tim. Also note the current *elected president* is native russian-language speaker.
Ian 18:29 on 2024-02-26 Permalink
Hey Qatzi maybe you can try calling them Slavic Rhodesians next time. /s