I'm just glad the world is covering it.
Bill 14 is a travesty of a bill and the CAQ are a fucking disgrace for not shutting it down.
Time, The Economist and 14 other countries have now exposed the insanity of Quebec's language laws.
Quebec can fool itself but it ain't fooling the world.
Hilarious reading the hicks like Josee Legault write in French on an American publication. The usual drivel follows. I'm reading their comments and it never ceases to amaze me how far they take their xenophobic crap. Legault has always been a joke of a pundit with no great enlightened insights.
Embarrassing to soaring heights.
Like people give a shit she writes her comments in French as if to make a point. And often it's just parochial sophistry.
In other words, bull shit.
I'm glad Time Magazine picked up the story, and I'm glad this stuff is finally trickling out of Canada. For too long Quebec has enjoyed the diplomatic cover that Ottawa provided it for fear of the country's break up.
ReplyDeleteQuebec has always been frantically afraid of bad press in the US and internationally. Bad press in Canada did not bother it that much, articles in the National Post or the Globe and Mail have always been easily dismissed as "Quebec bashing". More importantly, since the 1970s Quebec has always felt strong in facing Canada, knowing that a threat of separation effectively kept Canada under control. It was bad press in the US that sent Quebec rulers into a frenzy, like at the time M.Richler penned a few articles on Quebec for the New Yorker.
So I'm glad this news hitting the US nationwide, and it's also being picked up around the world. As for Jose Legault, I fully agree with you. Sad woman, condescending and contemptuous, and an apologist for the unethical laws and culture of the post-1970s Quebec.
Thanks for commenting on my poorly written post. Well stated. Canada does provide cover and protection for these clowns. What makes me laugh is they act as if they're the "worldly" ones - in their minds. The best way to judge a society is to take its laws and place it elsehwere and see if it passes muster. Quebec is an utter failure on this front. They can't defend it other than on parochial grounds.
ReplyDeleteAlas, Canada in general has no culture of what constitutes LIBERTY. None. We don't discuss it we don't debate it. The idea of the collective is paramount and the results are not surprising.
I couldn't agree more. It's no longer about 'protecting' French but a flat out attack on another language. Trust me, Bill 14 first and they will increase the ante to speaking in public and the such. Watch.
People forget that Canada is not only turning a blind eye on what is happening in one of its provinces, but that it also provides diplomatic cover for Quebec when it can. M.Richler said that he was approached by Canadian officials in New York who complained that Richler was upsetting the "national unity".
ReplyDeleteEvery country is based on some sort of a lie, but the lie on which Canada is based is sometimes too much to take, maybe because it is current and not buried deep in history. As a naturalized citizen of this country, I find that sometimes I can't take this country seriously. Canadian passport is good for traveling abroad, but Canadian reputation is built on omission of certain facts that are well hidden and rarely make it out of "internal" politics. So I think it is great news that this stuff is trickling out.
I can't for the life of me understand how Canada can claim to be an open and tolerant democracy when one of its own provinces - and it IS a province - behaves in this manner.
ReplyDeleteI haven't taken Canada seriously either in a long time.
But hey, about Quebec's language discrimination, apparently we're "angry." Move along. Nothing to see here.
What a bunch of rubes and boobs.