Jungle
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Roger... my bad.Mud Recce Man said:This is CFLS though, not CFLRS. Different CoC....
... not much would come out of reporting something like this to the CFLS CoC in St-Jean.
Cheers !!
Roger... my bad.Mud Recce Man said:This is CFLS though, not CFLRS. Different CoC....
... not much would come out of reporting something like this to the CFLS CoC in St-Jean.
Hot Lips said:I haven't really been made to feel welcome as a fellow Canadian in the SJ area...so why not let them separate...
Baden Guy said:+1 RMR, Been there done that, five years in Bagotville. Couldn't wait to get the hell out. This isn't news to all the Anglos who have lived in Quebec for generations, a lot of them have given up and moved to Ontario. Language laws, language police and school restrictions made it quite clear that live for an Anglo in the PQ Quebec will be difficult. "Pure laine" is the preferred background for success in business. The Quebec economy is in serious financial trouble, politicans don't want to address the problem rather they want to get elected.
As you say there are positives, I still follow the French media print and TV.
I could go on but for any Anglo posted to Quebec there definitely are problems to deal with on a daily basis.
And yes I am retired so I don't have to keep a smiley face on this issue.
Good writeupSgtCpl.
Flip said:This referendum noise actually terrifies me.
I don't see any upside for anyone.
I see Quebec separatism as an ethnic nationalism, much like the serbs in Yugoslavia.
I needn't say more. No upside for Quebec.
Even if they could separate - the rest of Canada becomes the big bad imperialist power.
No upside for us.
The economic and political cost would be ruinous-for everyone.
The personal and human cost would be beyond our current comprehension.
Yes the natives living in Quebec would play a pivotal role in the whole thing.
The rest of us would be obliged to support them.
At best I see Quebec in economic ruin and Ottawa spending billions to keep it on life support.
The Federal government needs to spell out what Canadas terms would be to "free Quebec".
Flip said:Mud Recce Man,
Thanks but I don't think so.
Baden Guy said:Ref learning English. Gen. Hillier just changed Can Force policy on Anglos taking second language training. Take the time to read the rational behind it.
Frederik G said:Just because the policy changed doesn't mean the mentality has changed. The prevailing mentality among Anglos (especially those coming from places west of Ontario) is that French people just have to learn English; Anglos shouldn't have to learn French, because nobody speaks it anyway. Just look at RMC; most Francos earn their Bs in no time, whereas Anglos barely get their Bs in time to graduate.
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Frederik G said:I won't be much better off than an Anglo going around Quebec without speaking French. In fact, I'll probably get arrested for creating a disturbance.
Frederik G said:Roy, I agree that it's the way things SHOULD be, I'm just saying the way things are, it doesn't work. I'm not enough of an asshole (no, really, I'm not) to try it, but those guys I know who came to RMC and didn't speak English, didn't exactly get treated well when they went in town and tried to get around without speaking English.
My main argument was that if Francos are treated that way in English-speaking provinces, Anglos shouldn't expect any different from Quebec. The rest just spun off that, like there are always spinoffs of good things. (And spinoffs of bad things, like that Joey show.)
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Frederik G said:We should create the Canadian Academy of Language and create our own language that everyone would have to speak! That way, we'd all just be Canadians!
Wouldn't that be great?
Frederik G said:Most separatists are outside of Montreal, though. (A whole bunch of them are at RMC.)
EX_RCAC_011 said:Interesting.What are you doing about it?What is your staff doing about it.
Or is this B/S?
Frederik G said:(A whole bunch of them are at RMC.)
EX_RCAC_011 said:Interesting.What are you doing about it?What is your staff doing about it.
Or is this B/S?