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Why would I choose to read a French newspaper when I have an English newspaper that I prefer that I could read instead? Do you read the Gazette or the Suburban? I'll bet you don't, but I'm not going to try and hold that against you like an idiot. How many people do you know who read more than one newspaper?
I wonder if any of Quebec's celebrities have weighed in on the "language question".
The vast majority are pro-French and in favour of the language measures in support of Quebec's uniqueness. This includes francophone artists, as well as people of immigrant origin and even probably many of the anglophone artists who rub shoulders with that milieu.
There aren't really any calls from the entertainment industry in Quebec for changes to Bill 101. Nobody seems to consider it stifling, isolationist, unfair or cultural-backwater-ish at all. Contrary to what is often claimed, Quebec culture is extremely permeable to outside influences, probably even more so than the N American anglo culture that could replace it is if English were given free (or freer) reign here.
Notable exception are of course the Bowser and Blue comedy duo, and more famously the late and celebrated author Mordecai richler.
Why would I choose to read a French newspaper when I have an English newspaper that I prefer that I could read instead? Do you read the Gazette or the Suburban? I'll bet you don't, but I'm not going to try and hold that against you like an idiot. How many people do you know who read more than one newspaper?
For a variety of reasons. To name a few: To broaden you horizons? To get different points of view? To confront your own opinions to the other side's?
And yes, beside La Presse and Le Devoir, I do read the Gazette, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and even el Mercurio and la Segunda to get my share of Latin-American news.
I don't think you can have an informed opinion about Quebec by only reading the National Post...
Why would I choose to read a French newspaper when I have an English newspaper that I prefer that I could read instead? Do you read the Gazette or the Suburban? I'll bet you don't, but I'm not going to try and hold that against you like an idiot. How many people do you know who read more than one newspaper?
Well, you obviously feel quite passionately about these issues. You'd think you'd want to get both sides of it, no?
You and others need to take heed of historical events in other countries as you are showing a remarkable degree of arrogance to think Canada is immune from any such thing happening here.
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Oh, believe me many of us know full well that Canada is not immune to this type of nastiness, and how it can even manifest itself violently.
My own family has quite a lot of experience with this historically - at the hands of you-know-who...
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