Parlez vous le 'spy talk'?

[altiplano]

LOL... you guys are comparing English speakers to a disease and you call that "vitriol."

Seems that's he's just calling it the way it is... other than the pig latin part...

Haven't signed the constitution, benefit disproportionately from equalization, hold a disproportionate level of power in government, hold a disproportionate number of civil service jobs and money into your communities, yet screw another province trying to pay YOUR bills, hold the country hostage at every turn over every slight, and cheer, award, and support vexatious litigants again and again in their ridiculous lawsuits over what's printed on a seat belt (PULL) on a French made airplane...

Go away... pay your bill at the door.

[Counterpoint]

Bonjour Altiplano,

A parallel argument is not a comparison.

1) Québec wants its culture and language recognized and protected,

2) Canada wants its society COVID free and vaccinated.

Both are goals. Both require a general recognition that society will participate. Both get confounded in Politics whenever disagreeable non-conformists attempt a silly argument (including as you have separation).

You have nothing to pay as you leave the vax centre, you can re-enter polite society and pursue an immersion trip into French Quebec, French Acadia (they speak French as far away as Cape Breton) or Franco-Ontario (east of the Ottawa canal). You might even meet MR now learning French and living up to the Rousseau family tradition of polite acceptance.

It is just a language give it a try, it is just a vax, take it.

It is not “spy talk” and there are no microchips, no microchips, no microchips in the vax. Parallel.

[altiplano]

I don't know what "spy talk" is...

Anyway you were clearly attempting to infer a metaphor...

"Quebec wants it's culture and language recognized and protected"

Is it not? The rest of the country bends over backwards to accommodate it. It must be a big joke for you guys, we all dance around the bullshit you play on us.

I remember cheering when the Quebec referendum result came in, I don't give a shit anymore though. Your behaviour is deplorable towards other Canadians. I used to laugh at Torontonians who think they are the centre of it all, you guys are x1000 though.

[Latitude]

I don't know what "spy talk" is...

Anyway you were clearly attempting to infer a metaphor...

"Quebec wants it's culture and language recognized and protected"

Is it not? The rest of the country bends over backwards to accommodate it. It must be a big joke for you guys, we all dance around the bullshit you play on us.

I remember cheering when the Quebec referendum result came in, I don't give a shit anymore though. Your behaviour is deplorable towards other Canadians. I used to laugh at Torontonians who think they are the centre of it all, you guys are x1000 though.

Just so you know, we are almost 8.5 millions in Quebec. This is the internet. Most of us dont give a sh*t about what languages you speak. Will I speak French if I can? yes. Do I speak French usually ? Definitely. Do I care if you dont and you're in Quebec ? Not at all.

Again, the problem was the arrogance in his answer. Some people added that AC doesn't give a damn about French, which there is a bit of truth to it as well. If this didn't happen nobody would be debating about Quebec and it's culture right now lol.

[altiplano]

I don't think there was "arrogance in his answer." He was delivering a compliment to the city and its people. It doesn't matter what he said though, the language stasi and the politicians had to level him... now they're on a hunt for more anglos.

I think there is arrogance in that.

[Bingo Fuel]

It's not a zero sum game. You don't have to love Quebec to be against the plight of an arrogant Millionaire CEO. It's possible to think that both of them suck.

[Inverted2]

Reminds me of the temper tantrum they threw when they found out the MTL coach didn’t speak french. Bunch of cry babies.

[ayseven]

Bonjour is pretty hard to say, admittedly. Especially when it implies a bit of respect for somebody else.

[altiplano]

Global News: Premier Legault to announce plans to boost number of Quebecers in NHL.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8383507/lega ... ayers-nhl/

They should just pass another Quebecois-content law, fire the anglos and allos, and install what you want it to be.

Surely the Montreal Canadiens are a more storied, more important, more Quebecois institution, with more cultural significance that just about anything else. Certainly more so than an airline...

So why the double standard of building programs to develop more top calibre athletes, maybe, eventually, big maybe, instead of just berating the organisation for trying to get the best it can to compete in their business?

Clearly the Habs deserve a bigger whipping, they actually dressed a team without a single Quebecer in a line recently, the horror!

[mijbil]

Global News: Premier Legault to announce plans to boost number of Quebecers in NHL.

I just saw this. Comedy gold. You can't make this stuff up. What will they be demanding next, the return of the Nordiques.....and wanting us to pay for it via "equalization" payments?

[Cavalier44]

Global News: Premier Legault to announce plans to boost number of Quebecers in NHL.

I just saw this. Comedy gold. You can't make this stuff up. What will they be demanding next, the return of the Nordiques.....and wanting us to pay for it via "equalization" payments?

We (the taxpayers) already paid $370 million for them to build a brand new stadium in Quebec City back in 2012, despite there being no NHL team to play there. Now Legault thinks he can dictate terms to the NHL! I'm only one Quebecer but I'm getting pretty tired of the tin-pot dictator shtick.

As far as the whole nonsense surrounding Rousseau - I don't see any arrogance in his statement at all. If he had said to the reporter "je m'excuse, je parle seulement juste une petite peu de Francais", he would have been vilified by the Franco-Sovereigntist bloc just the same as if he answered the way he had. It's a no-win situation because they're actively looking for a reason to be upset and aren't concerned about whether there's any logic behind it.

It's the same dog-whistle politics that have been holding this province back for the last fifty years. "The French language must be protected at all costs, the English elitists want to eradicate the French language, we have to protect our culture!" etc., etc., ad nauseum. Get the voters riled up against any enemy, real or fictitious, and they'll vote for you reliably whether or not they're voting against their own best interests. Kind of like the Quebecois equivalent of "the Mexicans are coming to steal our jobs, we have to build a wall to keep them out!".

What really gets me is not only our current PM bending over backwards to appease Quebec voters, but all the federal party leaders inserting themselves into the situation - what an embarrassment.

[mijbil]

As far as the whole nonsense surrounding Rousseau - I don't see any arrogance in his statement at all. If he had said to the reporter "je m'excuse, je parle seulement juste une petite peu de Francais", he would have been vilified by the Franco-Sovereigntist bloc just the same as if he answered the way he had. It's a no-win situation because they're actively looking for a reason to be upset and aren't concerned about whether there's any logic behind it.

It's the same dog-whistle politics that have been holding this province back for the last fifty years. "The French language must be protected at all costs, the English elitists want to eradicate the French language, we have to protect our culture!" etc., etc., ad nauseum. Get the voters riled up against any enemy, real or fictitious, and they'll vote for you reliably whether or not they're voting against their own best interests. Kind of like the Quebecois equivalent of "the Mexicans are coming to steal our jobs, we have to build a wall to keep them out!".

What really gets me is not only our current PM bending over backwards to appease Quebec voters, but all the federal party leaders inserting themselves into the situation - what an embarrassment.

Well summarized C44. This Wisconsin US politician is quite blunt about it :
"Rep. Glenn Grothman says it's because of cultural divisions. In Canada's case, he says, those divisions involve language. And he lumped it in with a long list of what he called failed countries.

"I never felt Canada was quite as successful as America," he began in his Nov. 16 speech. "[That's] because, to a degree, their elections pitted the French speakers against the English speakers."

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-congressman ... 12778.html

I've often thought that for a truly dispassionate objective look at a country, you need to read about it in a foreign press, like reading about Germany in the Aussie press.