The Failures of French Immigration in Quebec

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by CloudReader

There's truth in that video, but she clearly exaggerates (or worse) to get her point across. She says she's from Montreal, but seems to hold an old/out-of-town opinion of the linguistic power/employment divide. And she makes it sound that we speak in joual instead of proper terms 100% of the time. The word "voiture" is not replaced by "char" in Quebec. People use them interchangeably and you will not hear the slang term "char" used besides every-day conversation.

Also the guy is very obviously not a native Parisian.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Dr. Shouts

So you want me to read an article about French immigrating to Quebec while you refuse to read the main OP, an article about French leaving Quebec with a 50% departure rate in 8 years?

Why do you keep making statements that have no sources to back them up? Quebec's population growth isn't equal to or more than the U.S. or the majority of U.S. states. Post your sources.

Keep searching and you'll find threads with people talking about leaving due to feminism. By the way, I never said entirely due to feminism. Try this thread:
3.5 ans au Québec... je suis heureux de retourner en France - Page 6 - Bilans et tranches de vie - Forum Immigrer.com

The French do indeed call Quebec Feministan:

"Les valeurs féminines sont privilégiées ici, telles que
l'égalité, la solidarité et la qualité de vie ; il y a interchangeabilité entre
les hommes et les femmes et les conflits sont résolus par la négociation et le
compromis.

Indéniablement le Québec est Féministe. Parfois cela frôle le Féministan, mais bon, il y a tout de même de bons cotés."

Différences culturelles au travail - France/Québec - Page 2 - Lounge - Forum Immigrer.com

This Quebecois woman seems to be well aware that there are French on a forum who refer to Quebec as Feministan:

Tu dérailles encore et pas à peu près. La loi québécoise est tout à fait similaire à la loi française concernant le partage du patrimoine familial en cas de divorce.
On se plaît, je veux dire, un certain groupe de Français sur un certain forum que tu connais bien, se plaît à décrire le Québec comme le"Féministan" alors que notre loi est calquée sur la loi française. Faut juste se renseigner avant de "bitcher".


Québec : Taux de fécondité en hausse à 1.69 - Page 4 - Lounge - Forum Immigrer.com


The French on that forum also seem to like to refer to Quebec as Kebekistan:


Pour moi, cette image d'épinal, je lui tourne le dos et je dis et répète: ça n'est pas ça le QC. De l'autre côté de l'affiche sympa il y a le Kébékistan avec ses routes à nids de poule, ses infrastructures délabrées, ses mafias, son système de santé dépassé, ses jobines à 9 $ de l'heure, sa relative ferrmeture au Monde et son syndrôme du village gaulois entouré d'anglais, ses taxes exorbitantes par rapport aux services rendus et tutti quanti.


3 ans et demi au Québec... nouveau départ a Toronto - Page 21 - Bilans et tranches de vie - Forum Immigrer.com


C'est vrai, le Kébékistan donne l'exemple à suivre... à la France, à l'Ontario, au Monde entier.

Et tu es représentatif du Kébékistanais de base qu'on rencontre parfois.

Je suis sûr que tu aurais pu avoir un rôle dans ''Bob Gratton... My Life''.


3.5 ans au Québec... je suis heureux de retourner en France - Page 63 - Bilans et tranches de vie - Forum Immigrer.com


The French even like to call Montreal "Montrealabad":


peut-etre aurez vous l'honnêteté de reconnaitre que ces cas sont rarissime a entendre certains sur ce type de sujet on va réellement finir par croire qu'on vit au 'kebekistan" et que "montrealabad" et tombé sous le joug des talibans et que ses dernier prepare leur invasion du reste du pays .


ras-le-bol des accommodements déraisonnables - Page 18 - Québec - Forum Immigrer.com


If you want to read other charges against Quebec then google the words "Québec Féministan" and "Québec Kébékistan". You might also want to try other search engines, include those in French.

BTW the use of terms like Québecistan and Montrealabad is actually borderline racist, as it implies that there is something fundamentally negative about being a ''-stan'' (used as a suffix as in ''land'' in Central Asia) or an ''-abad'' (used as suffix as in ''villa'' in India, Pakistan, etc.)

It's also really dumb to use it in the context of this discussion because the term Quebecistan was actually coined by Barbara Kay, an Anglo-Jewish journalist originally from Toronto who lives in Montreal. She used it to criticize Quebec for being too close and sympathetic to the Arab world and to the cause of Palestinians especially.

See?

Now you know.

[jambo101]

If i were to guess why people return to France after relocating to Quebec i'd imagine feminism would not be high on the list,more likely would be
a return to friends and family and a familiar sense of place.
Job prospects not turning out as planned,
A return to increased social programs.
Not fitting in or liking the North American way of life.

[barneyg]

Originally Posted by Dr. Shouts

You people are touchy about any negative talk about Quebec. Obviously, a thread about failures of French immigration is going to have negative talk about Quebec. So why are you here?

You have already shown in this thread that you are not one to be distracted by facts, but just for fun why don't you check out BruSan or jambo101's post histories and find out whether they are "usually touchy about any negative talk about Quebec".