T.C.'s Language Edict

In my experience, for the most part, I haven't had that much of an issue with language in Quebec. Mostly because I go with the philosophy of "just speak French to avoid any assholes." I think most of us are governed by this unfortunate but pragmatic thought.

You just never know who will tell you those ugly words fit for a brasserie "parle moi en Francais, c'est le Quebec tabernak."

I've had some mild experiences where people may have been offended (you can feel the energy) but not much more.

Quebec is a civil, tame society.

Linquistic peace is achievable and real. Most French-Canadians want to learn and speak English and vice-versa. There is definitely good will among the moderate majority.

I don't think there's much debate in that.

Everything else contrary to this is designed for TV ratings and votes. To prove we exist or that people are "shaking" things up to prove they're doing something for the "culture." Anything.

Down south the discussion surrounds whether or not the GOP can modernize. That they have to purge the extreme crazies from their party (like the Democrats have no nutcases), and that they have to take a more conciliatory approach.

I think even among Canadians this is a perception.

With that, I move to do the same in Quebec.

Squeeze out all the nationalist nutcases and language zealots in Quebec punditry and politics. They only serve to keep Quebecers down if you ask me. Nothing angers me more than Quebec intellectual and political classes preventing their own population from speaking English and attempting to force public spaces from being conducted in French only with regressive laws that weaken the language if you ask me, who turn around and send their own kids to English institutions - sometimes in the United States.

They too need to keep an edge on their constituents - make that plebians.

Weed them out. Pu bon!

Things are changing. New immigrants don't want to be told what to do, anymore old immigrants (as Italians showed in the St. Leonard Riots) didn't.

Even the dated walls of Revenue Quebec will change eventually. It has to.

The fear of English is on the wane and this scares the crap out of the masters.

Most professionals in Quebec speaks English anyway. Most of the time we end up in pleasant exchanges counducting our business in both languages. The zealots have no hope in hell in winning that battle.

Montreal IS BILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL. It's not unilingually French in reality. It is so by law by and that law is a joke and doesn't tell the truth.

Unless the government bans that, ain't nothing they can - save vicious restrictive laws - do.

And that's a good thing for ALL MONTREALERS.