If this was about culture they would be providing a way for people to assimilate. Since they don’t, they are showing through their actions that they don’t actually care. I know people that went back to France because it was easier than dealing with the CAQs policy. People who’s native language is French. Meet and talk to some real people and you will see what is going on.
For those who don’t know, they forced everyone to speak French, then ran out of money for teaching people how to speak French and made French classes inaccessible for many people.
It was never about preserving French culture, it’s about punishing English speakers, when everyone speaks French after being here for 5 years.
The fucking CAQ should be punished for the people’s lives they ruined with new immigration rules and making immigrants pay out of pocket to learn French so they can keep living here.
It’s like negotiating with a terrorist. It is all in bad faith and his goal is to terrorize, not make a deal. His deals are not even worth the paper they are printed on. We should tell them to pound sand, they will only make a deal that is a zero-sum where they are in the positive.
He is really good at playing the “game” and right now it is easy because he opponents are idiots. You don’t lead two central banks without learning how to navigate through politics.
That’s funny because other than West Island, I don’t know many people under 18 that know English. The youth have so much Francophone YouTube and online content available now, they don’t need English. It’s so bad that they use French expressions and memes.
Where are you getting any of this? It’s like you live in Ottawa or somewhere in Ontario. It’s really hard to be that out of touch.