Charter: Giving Power To The Wrong People

Let's open with a xenophobic screed:

Hello, I think that if this law would take place, it would need to be 100% transparent. That being said, Religion stay home... When a police women can not do her job because she's a women... it's NOT our way of doing here in Quebec, In Canada. Same goes for Doctors, teachers... If the people that comes from other countries with their own religion and believe don't like it here in Quebec, they can just move back from where they come from.... If a Canadian teacher wants to go teach french in the Muslim countries, she would need to be and respect their culture.... If Men and young men are not allowed to look at women that go the a gym, where let them move elsewhere.... Come on... The base of this chart is good and fair... especially for the people's right and women as well... Again, if those who are not happy can leave like they came into our country. If they don't like it in Quebec, they can move in another province... And they should start by learning french and the Canadian and Quebec history as well.... They live in MY province... If I would go in another country, I would have to comply to their rules..... That's how it goes...

Now, you may say this line of thinking can't possibly be the rule here. Well, if the polls are any indication perhaps it is? 60% of Quebecers think the Charter is okay. 60%!

I'm not gonna get into the 'tit for tat' mentality that grips Quebec, or its complete ignorance about business (I get to speak to a lot of salespeople who work for international brands and to the person each says Quebec is the most difficult market - and not for positive reasons) or its tanking economy wallowing debt or any other social measure we fail miserably at - I've gone over it ad nauseum. 

I'm just gonna A) let this comment speak for itself and B) briefly discuss how the government empowers ignorance.

A government that employs laws that basically say "if we don't impose these coercive and punitive measures we will lose ourselves to les autres" is fear mongering. It is designed, under the guise of protection, to instill perpetual fear. Quebec nationalists haven't figured out that what they're protecting at all costs is an empty shell. They're setting a tone whereby no one will respect Quebec in the long-run. They demand respect without earning or giving it. That they 'exist' and believe this is their homeland is not an excuse to permit tyranny of the majority when it feels like it.

What is the purpose of protecting a dialect of the French language of it is not taught properly? I've had a friend, who after showing a Quebecois professor his poor grammar with a dictionary, was told "too bad, it's Quebec here." He was further told, "you Frenchmen have allowed too many anglicisms in your language." My friend is from Paris and stood in stunned silence.That's when he realized the depths of Quebec's anglophobia and its ignorance about the history of the language they're out to protect.

This is their idea of "protecting a culture." The problem is, the French language doesn't belong to them. There are far more important places with far more powerful interests who would take issue when it comes to the French linguistic heritage. 

In essence, laws like 101, 22, 78, 14, and now the Charter destroy the very essence of a society eventually. It brings it down to its tribal roots. It gives people like this person, the false sense of security in going into the streets and fighting her cause - metaphorically speaking. She's the one that goes around calling the OLF for nasty words like "on" and "off." It's her ilk, that take offense to being greeted in English. It's her type that mock English in public spaces and refuse to serve a customer in their language.

Why not? Her government sent her the cue to go ahead and do it.

Do we really want this?

It's not "anglo media" driven. We all have at least ONE incidence or confrontation with a 'parle moi en francais' or 'OLF' brown shirt.

I'll close with the final part of her comment:

They live in MY province... If I would go in another country, I would have to comply to their rules..... That's how it goes...

No, madame. It is NOT your province. I think the Natives would like to have a word with you. It belongs to the people - and that definition definitely doesn't end with the PQ. You're opinion carries no more weight than mine and in this instance needs to be eradicated from our midst. We need to fight it to the end.

I really could care less about other countries. We're the ones who should take the higher ground. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Quebec has some serious questions to ask themselves. That honest, intellectual discussion will not be initiated by nationalists or the PQ.

Sadly, in the latest polls the PQ are doing well.

Quebec. Welcome to the new Alabama.