Get Lost. Marois Next

So. I come back from New York City to a bureaucrat no one has ever heard of resigned from her post at L'Office de la Langue Francaise - otherwise known as The Office.

Good riddance.

Now it's time for Marois to step down. Every time the PQ and their merry band of yokel hicks come into power they're a drag on the province on too many levels. Marois's bull shit has been too toxic. Her divisive rhetoric on language belongs to another time; another era. She looks like, literally, a dinosaur in an iPad age. She talks out of, like all nationalists who take us for fools, two sides of her mouth. This thing about English needing to be "curbed" is retarded now.

The economy and handling of the student protests have been botched to comical levels.

You know. Standing around and absorbing NYC, I realized that's a city of mega-proportions economically, politically, socially, culturally etc.

Montreal brags and boasts about a lot of things one of those is multiculturalism. Something Quebec nationalists have never been comfortable of even fond of. It's true Montreal is cosmopolitan (though no more or less than any great city on the continent) and for the most part it does act and think in multiple languages but it's hampered by the PQ.

In NYC, everything has, out of COMMON COURTESY and without LAWS, a sign in Spanish. Seems that although Spanish is a language on the rise demograhpically in the USA, the Americans aren't losing their effen minds over it. They're finding ways to incorporate it into their culture. That's called the natural flow of the melting pot. Nothing forced, nothing coerced, no draconian laws.

Americans won't force you to speak a language in the work place. That's Nazi-Ayrian type bull shit and Quebec excels at it. It's not normal to force an American company with more than 'x' amount of employees to communicate in French even between two English workers. It's not normal to force English institutions to send out communcations AMONG EACH OTHER in French all the time.

Not normal.

That shit doesn't protect jack squat. It's there to send a message as to who's 'boss.'

NYC is a city of over 10 million. It has many lessons we can learn from. Ironically, even on matters of culture and how to live in linguistic peace.

Feeling threatened is a state of mind.