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Nope, it's just another ass backward policy by a racist, xenophobic, out of touch right wingers who got scared from one Journal de Montreal article. Bill 96 will not only curb rights and freedoms of anglos and allos, but it will destroy the economy and you will see another flight of capital if this thing passes. This will be a huge blow after it took us more than 30 years to recover from two referendums and draconian laws. We cannot afford to have that happen again.
Nope, it's just another ass backward policy by a racist, xenophobic, out of touch right wingers who got scared from one Journal de Montreal article. Bill 96 will not only curb rights and freedoms of anglos and allos, but it will destroy the economy and you will see another flight of capital if this thing passes. This will be a huge blow after it took us more than 30 years to recover from two referendums and draconian laws. We cannot afford to have that happen again.
As someone who is an anglophone/allophone immigrant, but who is neutral towards the language/separatism issue, I think it is important that one shouldn't make a strong value judgement towards this issue. I didn't grow up here so I'm just one degree removed from the language issue.
You know, it is what it is. Quebec is a not a bilingual province. It's a francophone province. (I say this as someone who gave up learning French a long time ago.). They want to make a country out of a province. No one likes outsiders. If I went to the Atlantic Provinces, they will consider me as an outsider and they will not want people coming in, regardless of what language I speak. Quebec has a strong 'regionalist' mindset. It is not an ethnostate, but I would say it's 70% there. It's not GTA.
Quebec is deeming that consolidating its francophone identity is more important than money. They have the right to deem so. Simply, the elites of Quebec are doing whatever they can to eliminate anglos from their society.
I mean you can criticize, complain and judge, but it will just be a background noise to them.
Hopefully, this brings real-estate prices down a lil bit.
As someone who is an anglophone/allophone immigrant, but who is neutral towards the language/separatism issue, I think it is important that one shouldn't make a strong value judgement towards this issue. I didn't grow up here so I'm just one degree removed from the language issue.
But... Montreal is a bilingual city. And Montreal drives Quebec's economy in all shapes and form. Montreal has ties to the USA and the rest of Canada. The remainder of places in Quebec do not. By imposing draconian laws such as this, they are limiting the progress of the city, the province, and the people, and will only further set it back compared to other strong Canadian cities. Half of Quebec's population lives in the Montreal region. It is truly the only major city in the province. I don't consider Quebec City to be a "major city."
There is no need for it. Quebec embraces French already. Don't need laws to enforce the use of a language.
One of the reasons I come on forums like these is to balance things out.
If I wasn't here it would just be a bunch of out-group people discussing something that first and foremost affects the future of someone else's in-group.
At least in threads such as this one.
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