Insecurity Wields Too Much Power In Quebec

I've met a few OLF types in my life. A bigger breed and band of losers are hard to find.

This "language test" has less to do with "protecting" the French language and more to keep "les autres" out. I often hear they're a "dying breed" this despicable race of assholes but in the meantime they're wreaking havoc upon a society to which we all live. No one in their right mind could possibly think this is productive or even acceptable behavior. That French-Quebecers themselves have a poor grasp of French grammar is irrelevant since it's "chez nous" and they're the majority.

Awful logic.

Politicians and pundits then turn around and claim they're not racist or prejudicial. However, I don't think anyone can argue with a straight face Quebec's language laws aren't prejudicial on some level. In order for a society to find the chutzpah to create a segregated society along linguistic lines it has to have a chip on its shoulders. They call it being realistic, I call it retarded.

Say what you want about Canada but no province demands a French-Canadian take an English test to work here. Canada is superior, I reckon, to Quebec when it comes to treatment of citizens at the STATE level.

I oppose Quebec strictly on CIVIL LIBERTIES grounds. It, in effect, creates two groups of people. One backed by the power of the state and the other kneeling before it. It's the base root of libertarian thought: If it's not voluntary it's wrong, invalid and sometimes immoral.

Fortunately, what I observe on the ground is far from what the PQ are advocating. Alas, these are the EXCEPTIONS.

It's like the Americans demanding Latinos (illegal ones too!) to take an English exam making it so hard to pass by nitpicking at every little grammatical error. That action alone would cause great angst among Americans. Not saying some people may not believe this to be a good idea (English-only bills have been tabled not legislated), it's just that they don't have power like they do here.

The English-only movement in the USA has no chance of gaining any traction. None. Zero. Zilch. Mostly because the rise of Spanish is likely to peak and revert leaving English in no real danger over the long-term. Meanwhile, Latinos are free to do what they want with signage and the like. Besides, I think the Americans have bigger problems and greater responsibilities than to micro-manage their society. In Quebec we can do that because we're a have-not state relying on borrowed money with way too much time on its hands to obsess over the most trivial of things. Two different categories of civilizations.
Bah.

In order to put people though such retarded stress you have to be an asshole. Anyone who designs, implements and executes anything that comes from the tongue of the PQ is, by association, a jerk.

We can't stand what's going on here. We really can't.

Not on a pathetic linguistic level (no language is worth detroying a community over) but on a basic common courtesy, human level. It's WRONG what Quebec does.

Again, nowhere in North America are people subjected to this. I have no idea where apologists for the OLF are posting garbage about how language laws exist everywhere. Not like in Quebec they do.

Consider:

"...Welsh in Wales, Gaelic in (at least highland) Scotland, Catalan in Catalonia, the Balears, and Valencia as well as in North Catalonia on the French side, Basque in the Basque Country (both the Spanish and French sides), Galician in Galicia, Asturian in Asturias, Aragonese in Aragon, Piedmontese in Piedmont, Lombard in Lombardy, Emilian-Romagnòl in Emilia-Romagna, Ligurian in Liguria, Breton in Brittany, Flemish in the French 'Westhoek' portion of western Flanders, Franconian in Lothringen ("Lorraine"), Elsassisch Alemannic in Elsass ("Alsace"), Arpitan in the Rhône-Alps region surrounding Lyon and in so-called "French-speaking" Switzerland where it is the real indigenous language of the western cantons as well as the Val d'Aosta in Italy, Corsican in Corsica, Sardinian in Sardinia, and above all, Occitan, the first vernacular language in Europe to develop a written literature with the Trobadors, in the 15-million-strong population of Occitania (usually misnamed the "South of France", which makes as much sense as calling Scotland the "North of England".

This is fact. My cousin lives in Gallacia. My buddy lives in Holland. I have family in France and Italy. Doesn't exist. Quebec is definitely, it would seem to me anyway, a case study on what not to do. All it does is pisses people off.
Oh, think this is the exception? Think again.

In Quebec, you have to pass a test to sell REAL ESTATE and MORTGAGES! In Quebec, a person not part of the tribe will NOT get a promotion. You will NOT see a police chief whose origin is anything but from here. Same with all other public jobs.

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With that, we were offered a chance to invest in an American medical lab company. The person involved is an American doctor/businessman/athlete (he played football for the University of Miami) and a friend of my family. He married an Italo-Quebecer and has been here two years. He has seen enough. He was thinking of setting up shop here but it's a no-go. We had a nice discussion about Quebec as a place to do business.

In a nutshell, the mentality all-around is crap. Canada by extension, is a place where government-backed monopolies (think phone companies and the CRTC) still fuck consumers in the ass.

It's an exciting opportunity for us to invest a relatively small amount ($40 000- $125 000 range) in a lucrative industry based in Northern Florida.

For me and my family, it's a way perhaps into moving permanently.

Quebec's nationalist pieces of shits should be happy another productive member of its society wants out.

We'll see.