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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 4:35:58 GMT
I don't see why I should bother correcting such things, unless I know that you would like for me to.
This crap shouldn't actually be legal to do under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Except, of course, Quebec never gave a shit about the Charter and passes everything they do under the Not Withstanding Clause, which allows them to ignore parts of it!
Imagine, if you will, that the US Constitution had a clause that let states ignore parts of it and parts of the Bill of Rights! It would be ridiculous.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 4:46:15 GMT
actually cool you bring that up as all of Canada voted against Bill 101 and then Quebec passed it anyway. Quebec did a similar thing again when it fought to have provinces with some population of majority french communities (northern Ontario and places like that) to label themselves as bilingual Provence thus requiring them to recognize the french but then turned around and declared itself a single language Provence and demoted english as not even considered a language within its own boarders.
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 5:06:32 GMT
And technically speaking, Canada is supposed to have two official languages anyway, right?
But really... that kind of behaviour isn't helping their cause outside of Quebec.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 5:25:28 GMT
English is not an official language within quebec because of it was a lot of the language law shit they pull would be rather looked down on, but it's different when it's a "minority that doesn't have an impact on the majority opinion" though that didn't stop Ontario giving itself bilingual status with barely a 100,000 french speakers, in fact I think it's even a much smaller number. But fucking quebec looks down its nose at 6% of its population. you cross into Ontario you get translated signs all the way to Cornwall but as soon as you cross that Quebec line no english signs in sight.
Canada is considered a bilingual country but not all Province have bilingual status for French meaning they don't need to take the french population into consideration and only needs to focus on the majority english speakers.
As far as I know though I may be wrong, Manitoba, Ontario, Newfound Land, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia declared bilingual status to please Quebec and then Quebec turned around and declared itself a single language Province, demoting English as a language and declared itself a strictly French Province
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 5:42:26 GMT
New Brunswick is definitely officially bilingual. And even over here products have information in both French and English.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 21, 2015 5:46:39 GMT
It's kinda fun to sit back and watch Canadians talk about purely Canadian issues.
Cuz really, considering the massive boarder we share with you guys, we don't know you all that well. You're like the quiet neighbor that doesn't ever cause any trouble. Sure, we wave at you while you're mowing the lawn, but we never really get to know you.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 5:47:32 GMT
i don't know the specifics just that being declared a bilingual province means some requirement need to be met with english and French getting equal treatment and Quebec doesn't have that
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 5:54:35 GMT
so you've just been watching the show Wordweaver?
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 21, 2015 5:56:24 GMT
I just got home and read through it.
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 8:27:35 GMT
I'm sure you've learned of some new and strange arcane truths about your Northern neighbours.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 12:45:56 GMT
here's another fun thing on Quebec, it seems to run on a different rating system when it comes to movies and shows because the new Mad Max: Fury Road is PG 13 here and not only that but so is South Park
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 18:53:39 GMT
Yeah, I'm not surprised. French culture generally seems to handle Ratings Systems far different from the rest of Canada and the US.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 21:51:58 GMT
yeah, They also have a PG16 rating for things as well. Quebec is very different from the rest of Canada and not just language
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 22:10:41 GMT
Culture encompasses a lot.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 22:18:52 GMT
legal age to drink is 18 not 19 like the rest of Canada, can get beer from any store not just a beer store like in Ontario and I think the rest of Canada, no tax on liquor. I think Quebec has a drinking problem.
School to grade 11 not 12
Cars only need a plate on the back bumper
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