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Ah! Quebec will never change. Honestly, for those thinking of moving to Quebec, don't. You're better off going to Ontario or another province/U.S state.
Ah! Quebec will never change. Honestly, for those thinking of moving to Quebec, don't. You're better off going to Ontario or another province/U.S state.
Seems Quebec is doing its best to motivate new immigrants to not come to Quebec through their obcessive dwelling on linguistic and religious demands of anyone thinking of moving to Quebec.The ROC is laughing all the way to the prosperity bank as new immigrants avoid Quebec and settle elsewhere in Canada.
Seems Quebec is doing its best to motivate new immigrants to not come to Quebec through their obcessive dwelling on linguistic and religious demands of anyone thinking of moving to Quebec.The ROC is laughing all the way to the prosperity bank as new immigrants avoid Quebec and settle elsewhere in Canada.
Another one for the "Bad Frenchies" file, eh?
(We also have our own file on you guys. Just so you know. )
(We also have our own file on you guys. Just so you know. )
I'm talking about the governments actions and not francophones individually, i dont believe in animosity toward francophones in general just the racist xenophobic legislation its government lays on its immigrants and non francophone residents.
It makes for great headlines but bureaucratic stupidity or errors exist everywhere.
I would expect this to be rectified eventually and that she will be accepted.
While they do exist elsewhere, show me where someone was denied their residency application over ONE chapter written in English, or any language. It's just the typical Quebec thing, hysteria over anything not French. Really sucks that this place will never change.
When I first read the article earlier today I too thought that the application denial was unduly harsh but then again, having read up about the language system of Quebec and the attitude of some Quebecois bureaucrats, I knew something as absurd as this was bound to happen. Be mindful that bureaucrats are not often the most highly educated or sympathetic individuals out there; more often they are mere paper pushers making a system work to their bests interests. If one reads the article carefully, the reader will discover that this graduate was warned her thesis may not pass muster back in 2018 but she did try to find a way around the roadblock by taking and passing a government sanctioned French test. The ministry probably already made up their minds by then that this young woman would not be the right fit for residency or worse a cultural threat because though French, she is daring enough to publish in English.
All this story means is that these bureaucrats have absolutely no idea about the realities of doctoral studies and why some (many) students at French-speaking universities write part or all their thesis in English. If you want to be published in a good scientific journal, your paper has to be in English. In many fields, a doctoral thesis is a collection of articles you hope to publish shortly after you graduate, because tenure decisions are overwhelmingly based on scientific productivity.
The irony in all of this is that this woman probably read 750 articles in English (and maybe 3 in French) during her Ph.D., yet her rejection is based on a chapter of her thesis that was written in English but certainly extensively discussed in French with her colleagues and with members of her committee, just like everything else that happened during her Ph.D. This is not about protection of the French language. It is about an idiotic rule that was enforced by an idiot.
Show me an anglo that can speak anything but English.
I can, as can many tens of thousands of fellow Anglos living in Ottawa/Gatineau. Bilingualism is alive and well in the National Capital Region
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