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As an American I had no idea that Quebec needed to be saved from English. Today I am very interested in learning more about Quebec protecting its French Canadian culture. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Céline Dion (Diva), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Director of MET Opera and Philadelphia Orchestra), Marc-André Hamelin (Classical pianist) Denis Villeneuve (Hollywood filmmaker), Jacques Villeneune (F1 Champion), George Saint-Pierre or GSP (MMA Champion), Joseph-Armand Bombardier (Inventor and industrialist) and even Jack Kirouac (American novelist and poet) are, among many others, products of the particular Quebec culture.
Today, the population of Quebec and its human development are comparable to those of Northern European countries such as Denmark or Finland, for example.
The Quebec culture, halfway between America and Europe, is neither better nor worse than those of others, but it also deserves to exist, as allowed by the Quebec Act of 1774.
Friendly greetings to all from the beautiful city of Québec !
The Quebec Act was abolished in 1791
@@linefrenette9116 Strive for precision! Avoid deception! It was not abolished but replaced. The Québec Act was very unpopular among the 13 colonies (British colonies in the US) along with other Acts the American colonists considered oppressive, all of which led to the American Revolution. It was the British Gov't that kept the Québec Act in place, realizing that allowing a certain amount of autonomy would avoid uprisings. With the replacement of the Québec Act came the Constitutional Act that divided the region into Upper and Lower Canada, preserving civil and property rights (but not criminal law) along with their own Legislatures for each of the Canadian colonies. The Constitutional Act established again the RC Church in Lower Canada (Québec) and various independent powers as distinguished from Upper Canada and especially from the disgruntled Americans who hated anything British. We should be aware that Canada was not yet formed, something that occurred 100 years later. Strive for Precision! Avoid deception!
XQC (reaction streamer) but i'm not proud of this one...
We don’t have riot going on the “new are always peaceful “
How many of these people still live in Quebec
I am truly surprised by the intelligent and thoughtful comments that can be found here. Thank you for being sincere and understanding the magnitude of the challenges Quebecers are facing. It’s a nice change from the usual Quebec bashing😂
I think it's mostly quebecois here...
I think you need to read a bit more, the Quebec bashers are definitely in these comments.
@@nono86753Nova Scotia Canada here and I agree
C'est vrai ca Dawvid
@@Fleakee 🤣🤣
You, an American, understand and appreciate Quebec's efforts to protect the French language better than the rest of Canada. You've made my day. BTW I'm a Francophone with Irish roots.
You do know however that the laws in the US States are being used as a tool to deny services in anything but English. That is not really comparable to Canada. The only way to solve a problem is being honest about the details.
@@steelcom5976 the problem with the details in that discussion is that there are so many of them. Trying to be honest with the details and not fail would take a lot of comments 😜
@@hexalibur1350 the problem is ignoring the details, not that there are many. stop kidding yourself.
there are far more important things with far more details which dont have issues
Tyler, the language police and the enforcement of its policies drives the rest of the country away. I love Quebec City and as an anglophone, who took 5 years of french and tries to speak a little when in Quebec, I feel very uncomfortable. Their culture is well entrenched in our country and is respected by most Canadians. The extremism is over the top and somewhat elitist. We love Quebec but they need to just chill!
Je suis francophone aussi
I am a Quebecer and I want to thank you for taking the time to inform yourself about our reality. As you can imagine, it is very complex and this video that you commented on sums up relatively well where we are. Quebecers who live in cities usually speak English well. However, to save our culture, we need not only French speakers to understand the issue, but also our English-speaking neighbors and friends, whether Canadian or American, to understand that our fight is not against English or English speakers, but rather for our language and our culture. Thank you again and congratulations on your work.
Yes, that is the key difference that some people don't seem to understand: we're not against English, we just want to save and promote our language and culture. BIG difference!
@@cassiopee26 Of course and you should have our complete support. But you know it's only the controversial voices that get heard.
@@steelcom5976 yeah, it’s unfortunately the nut jobs (no matter the subject) who usually scream the most. 😞
I do believe that it will eventually get swallowed up. I only say this because when you look at history of other places, it has happened. In the USA, Louisiana. Look at the Keltic languages - practically no one speaks it in Scotland, Ireland. Look at Basque-slowly being taken over by Spanish/French. All the Turkic tribes of Russia are now Russian speaking at least the younger ones. I also think that English will take over Europe, sadly. Not now but I am talking about a thousand years from now. Personally I'd rather speak Russian than English lol.
@@frostflower5555 Hold on. The US makes no effort to protect languages. In fact they are openly against other languages and cultures and don't provide services in anything but English. The reason Québec can introduce laws of language preference is because the Charter allows for it, using the Notwithstanding Clause. I hope it works. Celtic languages vanished because of tribal movement and the effects of Roman Empire expansion.
The Basque language in Spain has NOT been swallowed up by any stretch. And the languages of Europe are robust with no sign of diminution.
And Russia invaded many Slavic countries and imposed Russian on the people, forcing schools to only use Russian. That's why many people still speak Russian. That is a terrible example.
And in Turkey you will hear Russian because some Russians live there.
Quiet revolution is a very intersting subject. We went from the most religious region in north america to the least religious in less than 10 years!
And now you don't make enough babies to ensure that your culture thrives for generations to come. Instead, you vote for draconian language laws that try to force immigrants who come here to learn French in 182 days. Good luck with that. 😂
Well, seeing religion on the decline is a good thing
@@carolmclean8513 oui monsieur
@@carolmclean8513 another religion will replace it
@@jokester3076 It's been 60 years and that hasn't happen yet
Don’t forget that French Quebecer ( so most Quebecer ) really don’t want to loose there language… seeing your culture declining is hard …
The problème right now is the influx of illegals Who flew in Québec and dont speak French. If immigrants don't pass the French language test they don't get their certificate of sélection. Because immigration is a share competence between the federal and the Québec government.
Montréal is bilingual but not the rest of Québec. All in all 70 % of the greater Montréal is French speaking.
You are a very sympathique American.
@@gillestrudeau836 that’s true but for how long ? How long will it take till it goes down to 65%…. 60%… 55% … and on
I agree, since Canadian culture in general has been declining right across Canada. So much for govt. forced multi-culturalism.
I live in Ontario, I can't speak French, but my daughter is going into French Immersion this fall. So I hope she can keep learning it. My grandparents would have loved being able to speak French to their great grand daughter.
She need practice to keep learning it.. without watching tv in english i probably would have lost my english a long time ago.
Yeah the problem is really that you have to use it to keep it good! I was good at school but then I lost it as I would never had to speak english... internet helped a lot but now I also use some slang because thats what I am seeing on the daily. Lol But yeah, when an english coworker arrived at my job, I realised I lost everything, I was always looking for words.. words, verbs, etc that I knew younger but couldnt remember. 😂
You are a smart mom, If you want to make sure your daughter is bilingual, she needs to start with French immersion. English is inevitable in NA.
@@Spotnick2 Im bilingual mainly because here I only speak French but consume everything in English online. Internet is a game changer.
Let's put this in perspective. I'm not in Québec and am an English-Canadian. I cannot imagine living or moving to Québec and not learning French. Would you move to Thailand and hope that everyone learns English before you arrive? No, you would learn Thai. Otherwise you would be depriving yourself of fully experiencing a different culture where you chose to live.
My daughter went thru French Immersion outside Québec. She got a job in a company and the boss found out, by accident, that she was fluent in French. The boss was elated and put her in charge of the company's Québec clients + a higher wage. You NEVER know when a language will come into play and help you, and it will never hurt you. My friend's son learned German and he then won a job over many others in an Austrian bank that has a subsidiary in Canada. German was a big plus, so you never know.
And of course you can play Sudoku to avoid dementia and Alzheimers, but learning a language which is really a mega-project, is much better and you have something to show for it in the end.
Forget politics and politicians and forget the occasional bigot. Do things for yourself that enrich your life. You will never regret it.
That's the end of my rant.
I second that! As a French-speaking Quebecer, it would never occur to me to migrate elsewhere in Canada (except perhaps to the French-speaking parts of New Brunswick) and demand that everyone who lives there communicate with me in French. Similarly, if I wanted to live in Mexico, it would be inconceivable for me not to speak at least a little Spanish.
It is true that learning a second language can be good for the brain, professional opportunities and, most importantly, cultural enrichment.
For my part, I am 71 years old and I have just started teaching myself classical piano! It is never too late to set yourself challenges, except for those who are already living dead.
Kind regards.
@@davidmartin7931 Well put and I totally agree.
@@davidmartin7931 I know someone who hires for TD Bank, and I asked him, if you have 2 candidates at exactly the same level but one learned a language and the other was unilingual, who would you hire? And he said, the one who learned a language. He continued, When a person takes the time to learn a language it shows 3 things: initiative, a willingness to grow and a desire to improve oneself, all metrics that make a good employee.
I am a French Canadian living in Québec, where I was born to parents who speak only French. One of the challenges we face is that our culture often feels overshadowed; I know everything about America, but many people know little to nothing about Québec. It's surprising, especially considering that Québec is just a six-hour drive from New York.
Québécois here, love to watch your videos. Interesting to have the perspective of someone living outside Québec/Canada. Eager to see you react to more Québec content. Greetings!
Americans understand the people from Québec way more than the ROC
Vivre l'indépendance 💯
@@nono86753 When a candidate for the US election said recently that > and then the crowd cheered, you find that comforting?
@@steelcom5976 what does my comment have to do with that? All I was saying is that Tyler who’s not from Canada, has more empathy and seems to understand what Quebec goes through, way more than Canadians do.
I'm a Québécois from the Montreal region, and in fact, I would say that most young people aged 30 and under speak both French and English, with French as their first language. However, as mentioned in the video, with the decline of French in Quebec, being friendly and offering services in English leads people to assume, like you, that it's easy to live here solely in English and expect everyone to accommodate that, even accusing others of not being welcoming. However, in the community, we love seeing new people from various countries or regions and speaking their language, like English, to communicate well. But by being bilingual, we end up losing our own language at home...
I would also tell you that for a while now at work, when someone speaks to me in English, I respond in French. I fully understand the sentence and respond, but I try not to automatically switch to English like many people do because often they will then reply to me in French, with sometimes few mistakes, but at least we both learn a little more. I can learn a few English words while talking, and they learn a few French words. I love your videos, keep it up!
You CHOOSE what language you speak at home. Being bilingual does NOT make you forget how to speak French when you walk through your front door at home. Being bilingual just opens up more choices for you. It takes away NOTHING.
If you don't want to lose your language (IMPOSSIBLE anyways with so many Francophone Quebecers to talk to & so much French cultural TV & movies available & French signage everywhere [even IF other languages was still allowed also] etc.) all you need to do is to MAKE A POINT of holding conversations in French with your family & Francophone friends & watching & listening to Francophone programs while at home. That is ALL. No big deal!
WHY would you need to have French FORCED on you with laws? If you WANT the language it is easy enough to use everywhere in Quebec & that should be EVEN MORE SO in your very own home.
IF you NEED to be forced - then maybe you SHOULDN'T be - if it is so LITTLE your own personal desire.
@@Carrie-so3ro When you only think about your own language, which is already dominant worldwide, we are the only Francophone region in North America. A classic response from Anglophones who just want to see communities assimilate.
@@AxRDesign bein non le québec fait la génnocide culturel il y a des façon de encourager la culture français regarde a les franco onterian on encourage et juge pas les fauts can une anglophonne a mal parler et on n'est pas an danger.
The "Quiet Revolution" in the '60s was, essentially, a break from the Catholic church which had control of everything.
I do miss the Catholic Church running schools and all. Nowdays libtards run in and its awful.
And tajine back control of the economy from the English families, allowing French people to become wealthy too. And giving more rights to the workers. And so much more, really. The "break from Catholic Church" is what may have been the most notable for the every(wo)man, but it really had very wide-ranging effects on our society.
i’d love for you to do a video about the quiet revolution. amazing piece of modern history
Its unique as f** too.
I have a friend migrating from a francophone country. He achieved all his degrees from a French university in Quebec. He's hard time finding a job in Montreal because he couldnt speak English. Bilingualism is required in corporate jobs in Montreal.
It's also required for the Canadian military.
It's required for corporate jobs because that's exactly what they imply, corporate. Unless they're just selling in Quebec or French countries, English is the international language of business. It doesn't matter where you go in the world btw. Other than that, no Francophone has a hard time finding jobs in Montreal because they require English. Most don't. Even if your friend moved to France, corporate will also require it. It depends on the position of the job. The world will not change for us. It will not come to us either. We must go out into it.
@@sebastienbolduc5654 Jobs that require English in Europe are often American subsidiaries and often in the pharmaceutical area. In general English is not that common in France.
Imagine anglophone not speaking french, since it is also mandatory. So it is true that many will ask some English skills, it is not mandatory, and will not be required nor asked for if the business's market is local.
Mixing the business world which operates solely on profit margins with gov't policy and the wishes of the masses is probably not a great idea. If a company has markets in the US they would have to speak in English, because rest assured, very few English-Americans are going to learn ANY language but their primary one.
French in Louisiana has almost disappeared.
yes they speak most likely creole style a mix of spanish,english,and french
Yes 🫡 but when you think of french ppl in the whole american continent you think about Québec
@@Montreal_Supercarsshorts No. Maybe Canadians think about Quebec, but Americans have not ever heard of Quebec. Americans think Canadians speak Canadian.
@@Evilslayer73 Not only that. United States outright outlawed the use of French in school and in public, which of course led to the decline of French. Although this is not longer the case, and so French schools have been popping up in Louisiana (modern limits) by Cajuns (descendants of Acadians) to re-learn French through their children.
Without that Quebec Act of 1774, this would have been Quebec's language fate too.
@@peterzimmer9549 Most people in the north east know that Quebec is French speaking. I travel in the North Eastern states for work from time to time and when I tell people I'm from Montreal they sometimes ask if I speak french or surprised I don't have a French accent.
It is not only in Quebec that language laws still exist. More than half of the American states have done the same : 29 American states have declared English as their "official language" (or "common language").
These are: Alabama (1990), Alaska (1990-1998), Arizona (1988), Arkansas (1987), California (1986), North Carolina (1987), South Carolina (1987), Colorado (1988), North Dakota (1987), South Dakota (1995), Florida (1988), Georgia (1986-1996), Hawaii (1978), Idaho (2007), Illinois (1969), Indiana (1984), Iowa (2002), Kansas (2007) Kentucky (1984), Mississippi (1987), Missouri (1998), Montana (1995), Nebraska (1920), New Hampshire (1995), New York (2001), Tennessee (1984), Utah (2000), Virginia (1981 and 1996), Wyoming (1996).
This is often explained historically by the strong presence of other languages in certain states: Spanish in Texas, Nevada and New Mexico, French in Louisiana, Maine and Vermont, German in Minnesota and Wisconsin...
Don't forget Missouri, there were a strong french presence there too. They even have there own french dialect called Paw Paw French, But it's nearly extinct now. French was also spoken in Minnesota, there is even have a french sentence on its flag. A lot of the french speaking metis took refuge there after the civil war in Manitoba. John A. Mac Donald (the alcoholic racist backstabing first prime minister of Canada, he doesn't deserv to be call sir) versus Louis Riel (Chief of the Metis nation and false prophet).
In the US it is used as a tool to deny services in anything but English. I sincerely hope that nonsense never occurs in Canada.
@@leinad3643 No question that was terrible. The period was dominated by Anglophone Protestants when British solutions were in vogue. Residential schools were also a part of that type of dominant rule, handled oddly by the Catholic Church along with the Protestant ones to a lesser extent. And the removal of the Acadians to Louisiana a century before is included in that long list of atrocities.
Canada also had anti-French laws
1)King's Law New Brunswick
2) Public school act PEI
3)Manitoba: 1890 French is abolished
4)Alberta makes English the only official language of politics and schools .
5) Ontario Regulation 17 which prohibited teaching in French ..
Elimination of French schools and French-speaking legal rights in several provinces .
For me that’s the BEST video you did about Quebec, talking about our struggles so many more can understand us
Ils s’en foutent. Y a plein de commentaires haineux.
@@nono86753 Is it hateful to worry about being denied health care just for the "sin" of being an English speaker? Francophones aren't denied health care in Alberta.
@@Shan_Dalamani nether the anglophone in Quebec I assure you. The law says that the health care system has to communicate in French then in English only if the patient doesn’t speak or understand French. But the law is very clear that anglophone still has access to service in English.
@@Shan_DalamaniIn what kind of an alternate world do you live? Unless you are just being dishonest. Nobody is denied health care in Qc because they speak English. The law is, as a francophone in a French province, I am entitled to be served in French by my HC provider by law and not that I cannot be served in English. Why are you spreading lies?
@@MartinAngers-j5n I'm going by a news article in which a woman related an experience she'd had: pregnant and in a traffic accident on a highway. The ambulance personnel refused to speak English to her and while she could speak a bit of French, she was so stressed that she just blanked on it and could only communicate in English. At the hospital it was more of the same - doctors and nurses refused to speak English to her and couldn't even be bothered to find someone on staff who would speak to her ON MEDICAL MATTERS in a language she understood.
So no, I'm not "spreading lies." To be refused proper communication on health matters in a language you understand is to basically be denied proper health care. How do you know they understand everything pertinent to your medical issues, and how do you know exactly what they're saying, or if there are misunderstandings?
The CAQ (Coalition Avenir Québec) is one of the parties in the provincial government of Quebec, not at the federal level.
Most parties in our provincial government don't agree much on all issues, but the protection of our language definitely is one that rallies all of them, although there's a lot who are not entirely fond of the very draconic measures that we're using to protect it, especially with Bill 96 being put into law.
Also, bilingualism is really _not_ that widespread unless you're in the metropolitan area of Montréal. We have had obligatory English classes in primary and secondary schools for decades, but most people do not have the need to practice it or speak it in their day to day lives, and as a result are not very fluent in the language.
Most of this is correct except there are areas in and around Montreal that are more English then French even though a lot of the English speakers do also speak French
You can live 100% in english in Montréal. In rural area, a lot only speak french. We always see the English Canadian culture in this Chanel. We have our own music, television, cinema, stars, etc, that english Canadians dont know at all.
And Bill 96 is really tame and has no teeth.
@@Xerxes2005 Toutes les lois de la Caq sont des demi mesures ,c'est un gouvernement de poltron .
How would Tyler know. Or anyone that isn’t here. But you need to understand that provincial government (Government of Québec) and the Federal in Canada are diffrent in many ways here in Québec. Also that Québec has different rules for some things. Like Immigration… immigrating to Québec has differences than immigrating to another province..There are special status (let’s call it) for immigrating to Québec.
The opening graph is terribly misleading. It has its base line at 76.0 percent, not zero. Hence it presents the fall in French-speaking Quebecers as far more dramatic than is the real situation. The fall is from 83 percent to 77.5 percent, hardly very dramatic over 30 years (0.02 per cent per year). The more important statistic is that 94 percent of Quebecers can speak French, against 52 percent who can speak English. It is not that native English speakers have increased, but that those who have neither English nor French as their first language have grown from about 8.0 percent in 1991 to 15 percent in 2021.
Thank you. Revealing the actual data is the only way to discover a problem and then if the need arises, to solve it.
The majority of people there are bilingual. I think that's wonderful.
Although I am an Anglo. And was entitled to send my children to English education, I chose to send them for bilingual education. My children and my grandchildren how are fluent in both languages.
The more languages you speak you gain a great deal of benefits in life.
honestly, congratulations, it's all to your credit, French and English are part of Canada's identity and the bilangiste makes our country unique! I did the same with my daughter and the English language. have a nice day, from a Quebecer
I agree with you, speaking many languages is a treasure. Americans could still have advantages to learn spanish as a second language :) I fear it's to late for the Paw paw french from Missouri to save their unic language. I heard the state of Lousiana is trying to revive their Cajun amd Creole culture, I hope they can. I've seen some PBS programs totally made by Franco-Americans. Th decline in all those regions began in the 1920s and accelerate after WW2. But it waas the same for the german speaking communities I guess,
@@leinad3643 Indeed, for Louisiana, they became aware of the importance of their cultural heritage. Furthermore, although the video talks about French in Quebec, we must not forget all the other French-speaking communities across Canada. unfortunately, even here in Quebec, we don't talk enough about other French-speaking Canadians, Acadian/Chiac
If your not from Montreal, most of them don't understand English. Trust me on that, i'm from Québec.
Fantastic. You enriched the lives of all those around you.
Québécoise here ! We are afraid of losing our language wich is part of a culture to me. Sometimes I wonder why the war with the other provinces .Couldn’t you just be proud to have that diversity in your country the same way we have the north west territories for example. Would love to see all Canada united and empathic to our cause. And it’s so complex that you can’t understand in one video Tyler thou I appreciate the sentiment
Je pense pareil !!
@@EmMysteryVlogs On est deux alors ! C’est un bon début! 😃
Je suis entièrement d'accord avec toi
Je suis Acadien et je pense pareil. La situation est triste, mais courage les amis, si nous, en Acadie, étions capable de conserver notre culture malgré une déportation et des gros efforts d'assimilation, je suis convaincu que vous aller y parvenir.
Le Canada a un grand problème de réconciliation, soit entre anglo. et franco., entre colon et autochtone, entre anglos et même entre francos. J'aimerais tellement un Canada uni aussi...
L’Acadie…ca va sembler cucu mais je pense toujours à la chanson Évangéline (qui me fait pleurer à tout coup) quand j’entends le nom . Vous aussi avez un grand héritage et une grande culture à apporter au Canada. Étrangement je n’entends jamais de l’Acadie bashing (de mon coin de pays) et pourtant ça pourrait être un terrain fertile pour le franco versus anglo… J’ai peine à comprendre l’hostilité et je peux parfois comprendre l’envie de se séparer mais bon c’est une roue qui tourne…
My perception as a Quebecer, born in a city near Montreal.
I went to school in French and I passed most of my English classes without being able to speak English fluently.
After my studies I worked in restaurants in my city and I did not have to learn English until recently at 25 years old, I am now 26 years old. After 7 years in a restaurant I started to have colleagues who only spoke English or Greek.
So I was "forced" to learn to speak English quickly to be able to work properly. Given that these people had lived here in Quebec for over 25 years and did not understand French well. I found it easier to learn English than to try to make myself understood by speaking my mother tongue
It is illegal to work in another language.
So i'm assuming here that its a greek restaurant and if its an authentic one, it would cater mainly to greek speaking customers. And most likely a mom and pop restaurant not a big chain one. Most greeks I know speak only english or barely a lick of french because they are enrolled in english schools as kids where there is only a basic french class given anyways. I dont know about you but with only basic french, I would not try to engage in a conversation with someone who has been learning it for 20+ years. On the bright side, this can be an opportunity to learn greek for a possible trip to Greece. Its a beautiful country.
Je suis né à Vancouver, mais je parlais français quand j’étais enfant. J’ai étudié dans des écoles anglaises, mais j’aimais parler français quand je le pouvais, et j’écrivais à mes cousins en français. Malheureusement, j’ai oublié beaucoup de Français. J’oubliais encore plus quand j’étais à l’université à Florence et que j’étudiais l’italien, mais quand je suis immergé, après un jour ou deux, je deviens plus confiant pour parler à des amis, à des étrangers ou à de la famille au Québec ou en France. Je crois que le fait de pouvoir parler plus d’une langue, même imparfaitement, enrichit grandement ma vie, et qu’on n’est jamais trop vieux pour en apprendre une autre.
That's really a scandal that these guys who have been living here in Quebec for 25 years did not even bother to learn French. You shouldn't have to speak English. They should have to speak French.
@@dominiquebeaulieuso anyone that doesn't speak French is not allowed to have a job? Man, no wonder why Montreal was so bad now
As an anglophone who grew up in Ottawa I support the efforts to preserve French as a vibrant working language of everyday life in Quebec. It's easy to quibble about this or that restriction but the overall commitment to preserving French is laudable.
It has zero positive benefits. It only segregates.
If the majority support it. Why not put extent of gov't funding French to a general vote?
It does NOT need preserving. It is doing FINE & not going elsewhere. What is NOT doing fine are the Charter Rights of Canadians who are not of Francophone heritage but live in Quebec - sometimes for MANY generations. While Canadians in OTHER provinces receive openness to their individual cultures which are celebrated as part of the Canadian mosaic, in Quebec, anything BUT the French culture is trampled on.
Merci !
8 millions French surrounded by 400 millions anglo, think about that. Quebec give free french class dw so they can communicate with the natives population.
No, you provide French classes so that newcomers can find a better job and be more successful, and pay taxes that enrich the province and country.
@@steelcom5976 Immigrants are imposed by the federal government. Nobody wants immigrants except company managers.
@@steelcom5976 no most of them are literally illegal from the usa crossing over ...they come from new york and detroit !!! thanks to sleepy joe sending them here and destroying our canada ! 🤬🤬😤😤
@@OdinWannaBe En tant qu'Australien retraité marié à une Québécoise, je soutiens la langue française et je fais de mon mieux pour l'apprendre. Merci.
CLOSER TO 6 MILLION, 2 MILLION ARE NOT FRANCOPHONES, ABOUT 25%
Has a French speaker from Québec I am well aware of the problem, i speak English and French and the problem is the federal government of Canada, in my opinion the only way for la belle Province to survive the red crisis is to become independent
For one thing THERE IS NO CRISIS. For a 2nd thing, IF there was a crisis - GUESS WHAT - there is a Federal election next year. You could SIMPLY VOTE for a different Party next year. "Crisis" solved! It doesn't take separatism to achieve that - but of course this is just another excuse.
@@Carrie-so3ro You think Poilievre is smart enough to solve problems? He thinks Toronto's housing prices are a result of too much regulation. He thinks the Magna Carta freed the people. He thinks eating an apple while being interviewed makes him a statesman?
After the decision of the Supreme Court about unilateral separation, that it is illegal, it would get pretty ugly, and might end up in a civil war. Every country seems to have a turn at an internal war and I suppose it might be Canada's turn, unfortunately.
@@Carrie-so3ro
1- There IS a (small, increasing) crisis. French is the first daily language spoken by 80% of people in the province, declining by 3% every 10 years, and it's way worse for the generations after 2000 (internet drastically empowered english).
Québec's culture must be protected while it's still in good shape. Just like the environment: if you wait for a crisis before taking action, then you're too late.
2- We have our own federal party: the Bloc Québécois.
But with the fabulous First-Past-the-Post electoral system installed by the British to keep control over minorities (that Trudeau promised to reform, but lied), if we vote for anyone else than LPC or CPC (same sh*t either way), our vote is almost systematically lost, sent to trash. You should research on that, it's truly appaling. Every election, this system ignores most votes, and gives "majorities" of seats to parties that got only 35% of the votes. Because with votes divided between 4-5 serious parties, 30% is enough to win A LOT of ridings... Minority governments like Trudeau's current one are very rare in Canada politics.
@@steelcom5976 of course torontos regulations influenced pricing? how is a growing metropolitan city supposed to build more housing if it can only build single family homes in the majority of its areas?
For 3 decades , we had a linguistic peace between anglophones and francophones in Québec. Many anglophones 40-70 years old speak fleuntly French. Then, about 10 years ago, some traditionnaly french-speaking areas in Montreal metropolitan became more anglophone, and we started to be answer in English when ask someting in French, especially by the under 30 years old anglos. The informal pact is broken, so we feel we need to use legal mesures to return to the balance we had from 1975-2015.
When my mother was growing up in Montreal, Quebec in the 1950s & 1960s, it was COMMON for Francophones to speak to Anglo/Allophones in French with the Anglo/Allophones responding in English & THE SAME IN REVERSE. This was considered NORMAL & NOT OFFENSIVE. My mother explained that EACH side spoke in the language (French or English) that they were MOST comfortable in but understood what was being spoken back by the other side in THEIR most comfortable language.
Why all of a sudden do you need to take offence?
I ALSO notice that you said that YOU spoke FRENCH to Anglophones, instead of speaking TO THEM in THEIR language, when you KNEW they were Anglophones. Why should THEY not TAKE OFFENCE WITH YOU for not trying when it is obvious also that YOU can speak English? Why should THEY NOT have THE SAME RIGHT AS YOU to speak in THEIR chosen language, since THAT is what YOU did?? WHY can ONLY YOU take offence?
Are you next going to MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO EVEN HEAR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE BUT FRENCH BEING SPOKEN AT ALL IN QUEBEC?? Can you NOT see how fanatically CRAZY this sounds from you?!
Oui c'est tellement triste .. les gens parlent anglais partout à Montréal maintenant pour se penser cool. 90% des gens au centre-ville parlent anglais autour de moi, comparé à 60% environ il y a seulement 10-15 ans. Les réseaux sociaux n'aident en rien pour influencer ce phénomène. Et le plus on banalise, le plus ça va se répandre.
@@Carrie-so3ro could you tell it to me in french ? 😂
Salut Tyler, je suis un gars qui vit dans la ville de Québec et je suis unilingue Français. Oui, je comprends l'anglais, mais pour me facilité la vie, j'écoute tes vidéos avec les sous-titres traduit en français. Il faut savoir que je suis extrêmement fier de parler en Français. Nous avons une très belle langue et une très belle culture. Oui, nous avons le sentiment d'être unique. Il faut savoir que nous avons peur de la langue anglaise, car nous avons peur de perdre sur le long terme une grande part de notre culture. C'est pour ces raisons que nous voulons protéger notre langue et la protéger dans le futur aussi. Au plaisir de te voir venir visiter notre coin de pays.
Moi aussi je suis Québécoise. Bilingue mais je comprend ta position.😊
Oui moi aussi ville de quebec! mais bilingue, je fais autant de fautes en francais que en anglais ! :P
blague a part. Parler anglais et le comprendre comme sa langue maternelle est vital a mon avis, mais parler francais a la maison et inciter les nouveaux arrivants a apprendre notre si belle langue est aussi vital
Tout a fait d'accord avec toi, mais reste que de parler deux langues, mon cas personnellement, donne un avantage, et je trouve triste que certain unilingues au Québec se barricadent derrière des restrictions pour conserver leur langage. La meilleure facon de conserver une langue est de s'assurer qu'elle soit vivante, mais pas de façon artificielle par des actes de coercition. Je ne crois pas que l'on peut être "fier" de ne parler que français... Ou anglais ou tout autre langue.
la génnocide culturel n'est pas la bonne réponce
If there are so few French Canadians outside Quebec, it is due to the linguistic laws that certain provinces and territories adopted in order to prohibit the use or teaching of French on their territory, between 1871 and 1912, in favor of English. These are New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Ontario. Thus, many French-speaking communities had to assimilate or lost their mother tongue. Even today, it is with great difficulty that these communities try to survive in this Anglosphere that surrounds them.
could you tell me the names of the laws im curious as a franco onterian who still has my cultur and my language and can acces all the help i need in both quebec and onterio
I'm an articling student (finished law degree but haven't passed our equivalent of the bar) in Western Canada and it's a constitutionally protected right to have your trial in either French or English.
During the process of criminal proceedings the defense lawyer is required to ask their client what their language election is.
And this is a real good thing. You forgot to mention that the civil laws in Québec are different from all the other Canadian provinces.
I worked as an office clerk in a courthouse in Quebec, I would add that if someone does not speak French they have to put in a request before their court date to have an interpreter if needed. All the documents given to the person accused are either in French or English but for it to be in English, the court clerk has to check in a box on the court official report. As far as if someone goes into a courthouse and speaks English, government employees have been told to speak to them in French and switch only to English if the person says yes to 3 out of 5 questions on a checklist. The checkliste is something like did the person went to an English speaking school, is the person from an aboriginal background, are they an immigrant and other stuff like that ( I don't remember exactly and I always found it very dumb) In Quebec, at least in the justice system, the employees have to speak French but are not required to speak English. ( of course in places like Mtl it's prefered to have bilingual employees)
It may be a right, but that right is not always respected outside of Quebec. There is a reason why Quebec opposed the nomination of an English-only speaking judge at the Supreme Court. How.come a judge get that high without never having learned enough French to get by, if not by French not being required of all judges? It creates an imbalance on how justice is rendered based on your mother tongue.
Just think of all services from the Canadian government having to be available in both languages... "where the numbers justify it", but without stating what that number must be. Is 5% enough? Does it have to be 49% of people using the "minority" language? What if there are not enough people, but you happen to be there, and need some service, but you can't be understood? (Ok, automated translation is getting better, but it's not perfect still, and you don't want to pay for the wrong thing.)
@@martinegelinas459 & you are talking about THE JUSTICE SYSTEM - in a CANADIAN province! - something that can have a PROFOUND EFFECT on a person.
Can you imagine if a French person had to go through this in another province? No, I am sure you could not.
My nephew’s wife is French Canadian, from Quebec (there are pockets of them elsewhere in the country) and she moved to Alberta, where she learned to speak English. She is now a French immersion teacher in Alberta, with no plans of returning to Quebec.
@kathyarnusch7614 so you're telling us that a foreign person with a foreign language came to english speaking province, learned the language and then works in that province and contribute to the society it immigrated to? Wow, so no issue that it could happen in Québec too then
@@tremblfrShe is not a foreigner. She is a Canadian citizen from Quebec and she adapted to life in another province where the other official language of Canada is the common language in most parts of that province. And as for people adapting to Quebec where French is the predominant language, that definitely can (and does) happen too. Immigrants to Quebec have to send their children into the french school system. And they can't find too many jobs where French knowledge isn't required. So it's not necessary to mandate that they learn French in 6 months. They will learn it eventually. Besides, Quebec needs immigrants.. because the quebecois don't know how to make babies. So the Quebec government should not discourage immigration to Quebec with these draconian laws. They should provide free language courses and allow people the time they need to learn French rather than punish them if they don't become fluent in French in 182 days.
@@MK-fc2hnIn Quebec there are plenty of English only jobs, or jobs where neither English nor French is required. Sure they don't pay well but a lot of them do exist, primarily in cooking, cleaning, warehousing, lawn care and construction.
@@noseboop4354 Good. I'm ok with that too. This is a FREE country, and the government has no place mandating what language two people VOLUNTARILY choose to use between each other. Especially in small businesses that are just trying to survive. If you run these businesses into bankruptcy with draconian fines, you will only drive immigrants out of the province and remove their tax contributions, or alternatively you'll move them to go on the welfare rolls. Immigrants have a hard enough time as it is to integrate into Quebec society. Telling a Chinese restaurant owner that he must stop using other languages while speaking to his Chinese employees and that he must remove Chinese writing from the wall menu because it's not half the size of the french letters is beyond anything that a free society can justify. It's actually shameful.
@@noseboop4354 As far as I know, many positions such as research scientist, project manager, and software engineer at Google, Microsoft, Siemens Energy, Bombardier, and many large international corporations in Montréal do not require French and pay very well. Many tenured professors at McGill University do not speak French well but get paid well. However, learning French is a prerequisite to full participation in the local communities.
*French* is only "dying" in Canada in terms of absolute numbers (quantity), but *only improving in terms of quality.*
While Vietnamese is my language, French is the common language of my extended family because my relatives are French-Canadian through my Quebec aunts and cousins, and new in-laws who are French-speaking Indians; and my girlfriend is Algerian.
Mixtures between different ethnic groups ends up forcing a standard "improvement" of one common language between everyone, which in my family and surroundings, happens to be French. *An urbane French-Canadian* who is well-rounded and well-read *speaks better French than an uneducated person from a French region* like Flanders, Gascony, or Marseille.
As a matter of fact, you can go with your life in French in almost any place in Quebec, except in Montreal. The proportion of Montrealers who speak French as their primary language is currently below 50%. Most of our immigration has been attracted toward Montreal in the past 20-30 years. But, with the housing cost on the rise, we start to have more and more immigrants moving outside of Montreal. There are also people who have been living in Montreal for multiple generations that don't speak a single word of French and won't even bother trying.
As a French Nation, it is really hard to accept that our biggest city is not French anymore. The worst thing is that the more we take actions to protect our culture and our langage, the more we are seen as xenophobic and racist by the rest of Canada.
As for bilinguism, Quebec is among the top provinces for the proportion of its population that is functionnaly fluent in both French and English, as both are actually required to get your highschool degree.
Ypu should definitely check on the Quiet Revolution. The more you delve into Quebec's History, the more you'll understand the dynamic between what we call "the two solitudes" living in Canada and the roots of the desire to declare independance.
You are not a French nation..you are a French speaking province in a bilingual country.
That's a large swath you are using to paint English Canada. What I don't see from Québec politicians is the acknowledgement that schools outside of Québec, esp in Ontario, have an extensive network offering immersion subjects in French, usually Math, History and Geography. And it's serious. It is designed to reach full fluency. I didn't see that in your post by the way. And these classes have waiting lists. I told that to an inhabitant of Québec and he had never heard of it. The last thing i would want is to see French disappear (both my kids are fluent in French by the way), but there is not a lot we as English Canadians can do if it heads in that direction. I would, however, give credit where credit is due. Why does Le Gouvernement de Québec not include newcomers in their data who take the time to learn French within the province? It is difficult to solve a problem when the data gets distorted and political gain becomes the goal.
@@leemorgan4799 You confuse two senses of nation, one meaning country and the other meaning people. In 2006, the Canadian Parliament recognized the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada. Cheers.
@@leemorgan4799 we are a true Nation and have been for over 400 years. We are the true Canadiens before Canada stole our name. It's obvious to anyone visiting Québec that we are a Nation a culture a people. Don't ever think we're just another province.
@@steelcom5976 I am a French speaking Canadian, always lived in Quebec but speak fluent English. Most of our friends speak French too as our primary language and those who aren't francophones, can speak French too. At my workplace, we have been hiring a lot of people and as we lack the workforce needed, they have been hiring a lot of contractors from Ontario in the Toronto region. And I have noticed that none of them could speak any french... French, in Canada, outside of Quebec is just not needed and no one will bother learning it.
I'm from Nova Scotia and lived in Montreal after high school for 6 years. You are, well, encouraged to speak French. Wonderful city. Vivre L'Acadie Libre! If Quebec separated the Atlantic Provinces would be screwed.
Nah, we got you bro.
@@Pete-tu7qg I'm also from Nova Scotia, and I think after extensive travel, that Montreal is a unique, fun, vibrant city. I love it! 💕
@@Eilyse222 Glad that you like it. As most Quebecers consider Montreal to be a complete garbage by now
@@mxpwr4003 Oh my, really? Might I ask the reason?
@@Eilyse222 It is in perpetual repairs , full of orange cones 24/7 , homeless people everywhere , rising rents and everything is actually crumbling on this island. Also the mayor is extreme-left and made too much mess with her decisions. Maybe great for tourists , party people but living there .. no way
hey I am a francophone born and raised in Quebec city.cheers from Quebec city..
Salut André :)
Ici aussi 🙋♀️ On est plusieurs à écouter les vidéos de Tyler! 😆
@@Kate.g. Effectivement :)
@@andreb1605 aller c’est le temps de ramener les nordiques
@@Habebandebardown Trop cher!pas les moyens loll
The French culture..must be maintained..it's vital to Canadian culture and what we stand for. It must be protected..it's one of 2 founding provinces in the formation of our country
Well said
The future of Canada is neither in English nor French, it is in Chinese and Hindi.
@@noseboop4354 well... we'll see!
Huh? So Scotish too then? It must NOT be maintained by law, nor should any other language or culture. If it doesn't happen spontaneously then f--- it. Sorry dude. You're s--- out of luck.
D'accord.
Québécois from Longueuil (suburb of Montréal) here. The reality is that the British and their descendents in Canada have tried to assimilate us since forever. The federal government's idea of a Canadian state is a post nationalist one that is actively hostile to any and all nationalistic identity in favor of an amalgam of cultures working together toward a similar goal. This is all fine in theory for a nation (read the rest of Canada) that has a weak history and no real culture of its own but for Québec, which has its own distinct culture and way of life really, these politics forced on us by the Federal government force some more drastic measures in order to safeguard our identity as a distinct and unique society.
To me, gaining independence from a country that has always been aiming for the erosion and ultimate destruction of our society via assimilation is the only way for us to survive as the unique and vibrant society that we are in the long term. We have tried patchwork solutions since the 1960s, some more ambitious than others and yet, here we are still.
Vive le Québec libre!
I agree 👍🏼
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that true but they're not the problem at all it the illegal immigration that is causing a decline in our language most English speaker Canadian don't come living in Quebec it the illegal turdwater let in making Quebec non recognizable .Pierre Poilievre will fix this and make Canada again for Canadian/Quebeckers ...He will ship them back where they come from fixing the invasion problem
@@the_kiler_goose5731 Es-tu capable de verbaliser une idée originale au lieu d'utiliser des slogans puérils vides?
@@JulienML92 bein oui mes tu vois pas que tes paranoia de quelque chose qui exist pas je suis franco onterian et mon culture es commême las an effet il es plus fort qu'avant. on nas pas des loi préjuger vers des minnorité on est pas assimillier la changerment de parleur primère de français dessent par 0.3% chaque année mes le anglias es pas que monte ces les outre langues.
Im a Quebecer and my familly ancestor are in QC since 1690 speaking french and representing our culture and heritage from France ! God bless america !
Most of immigrants coming in are not French speaking.
Most of them entering do not have English as their first language either.
Not our problem. If I move to another country I would have to learn their language as well.
Most are french but yeah not all.
French is a requirement for permanent residence in Quebec as an immigrant. From the official site "Knowledge of French is an essential requirement for permanent immigration to Québec."
@@znk0r
... with the exception for people from Commonwealth countries.
@@znk0r That is technically true on paper but sad reality is that it's not the case. This has been going on for a long time but is almost not taught anywhere else in Canada outside of Québec. Immigrations has been used to try to assimilate people in Québec almost since the first days of British rule. The name Quebecer is fairly new because until the late 1800's Canadian was a term to desrcibe a French speaking resident. The others were just called English. We had to invernt a new name for ourselves...
I'm so glad you finally got around a crucial part of Canadian and Québec history, Québécois here! :
1- Think of the 'reluctant' Quebec Act that allowed people to speak french, be catholics and have laws in a language they can speak. So what it says is that before the, under pressure but not in other circumpstances, adoption of that act, we were actively persecuted and snuffed out to extinction until the risk was too high because of their southern neighbors. THAT reluctance never went away and is still here to this day within Canada when talking about the Québécois.
2- Our existential survival (yet I admit extreme) laws on our culture gives us within a coutry that wants us to be a part of to be called racists and xenophobes and paints our reputation within the coutry that still reluctantly lets us be.
3- 80% of people here speak ONLY french, that 20% is billingual in ANY language not only english. Some québécois also are surprised at that fact but most people world wide thinks they can get around in the country side in english, then complain we are not welcoming cause would you not understand German speak german, Italians speak Italians, Brazilian speak Portuguese? Then our 'reputation' of xenophobes grows.
4- Immigration is a big part of why the last Referendum about Independence was a NON (49.6% Oui VS 50.4% Non to independence, can't make this up how close it was), for they lifted the laws about immigrants and pushed many newcomers that were arriving amidst this whole thing BUT having their passeports and dreams about CANADA not even knowing what Québec is. Same thing happend in scotland at their last one and all other nations trying to be themselves on the world stage throughout history. AGAIN, that rational complaint gaining us Xenophobe points for the ignorant (only 30% of countries worldwide have to deal with separatist issues give or take).
Hope this answers your request to get some Quebec perspective into the mix. Love your very rational and compasionate stance towards our strife.
The second most spoken language in Canada is Chinese. Third is Italian. More than half the people living in my city were not born in Canada, and I think that's great. So why the f--- does everyone in every province have to learn French? For historical reasons? Because you been done wrong? F--- you. If your culture and language are worth saving, it will happen naturally, and if not, so be it.
You say you want the rest of the country to let you be BUT you are a PART of Canada (whether you like it or not) so YES you should conform to the ACCEPTANCE of DIVERSITY & let OTHERS be WITHIN Quebec. As you say 80% of Quebecers speak French in Quebec so it isn't like you are going to go extinct!
When it comes to getting around in the countryside - I have heard that non-Francophones have AN EASIER TIME getting by than with city people in Montreal for instance. Even when the Francophones in parts of Quebec don't speak English, I hear every time that they are kind & do their best to be helpful, even resorting to drawing pictures on paper & simple maps & using hand signals to try to help communicate. The problem has always come from those in the cities who COULD speak English but have refused to help or have DELIBERATELY tried to harm.
@@Carrie-so3ro chill dude @bbqjoe22 is not the scary kind québequois that want the genocide of non french culture if they were i dobt they would admit that the laws were extream go take you hate tiraid to somwere else.
Preserving French in Quebec is of course important, but in my opinion instituting severe language laws like Bill 96 won’t help much in practical terms apart from making certain Québecois feel warm and fuzzy. Bill 96 complicates activities of small and medium size businesses in no small measure. Example - a friend who works for a medium size manufacturer in Montreal told me the “Language Enforcers” showed up at his workplace unannounced a month ago, demanded to see company computers, records, and correspondence which were about 80% English since their customers are mostly in the U.S. and other provinces, and were told that was unacceptable under Bill 96. Among the many other requirements they received, a stack of cardboard boxes of components they received from another company in Canada had print on one side of the boxes in English. They were told they must now stack all boxes so that English is not visible. Additionally, and unbelievably, if employees want to talk to each other in English, they must go into an office to do so, and close the door. That’s only one example of thousands of “enforcements”to come. Will they somehow cause more people to start speaking French at home? I fail to see how. I can see a more likely scenario being some smaller businesses slowly relocating out of the province to avoid such deep intrusions into their operations. Note that there are 4 court challenges to Bill 96 pending, mostly regarding various ways in which it negatively impacts individuals and indeed there are many of those.
Increasing the % of immigrants from the world’s French speaking countries (of which only a handful can provide skilled workers badly needed here) to 80%, and requiring the rest to learn French in the span of 6 months, is an unrealistic goal imho, unless the Government starts paying people to come and how many taxpayers would be thrilled about that.
I think a major problem is the sheer power and volume of English in the media, accessible to all Francophones. English (U.S. and Canadian) tv stations, UA-cam, Netflix, TikTok, you name it, are pervasive while French language alternatives are far fewer in number. That’s understandable. Tons more would be needed to shift the balance, (maybe Voustube, TiqueToque?) to reinforce both the language and culture and hopefully steer people more toward French content.
I can’t see that equating use of English to some sort of poison, to the extent the Quebec government currently is doing, will have the desired effect. Unfortunately, while I’m a bilingual Quebecer who appreciates living here and wants French to endure, I can’t offer up any great ideas for achieving that and so far, in my view, no government has.
LOL If you have a bottle of Jergens Soap in your house, with English only on the bottle, in Quebec, or any other province of Canada, you must have smuggled your Jergens in from the United States. All product packaging in all provinces of Canada must be bilingual and appear in both English and French. The same is true with all instruction sheets, safety data sheets and manuals that may be associated with any product. Jergens soap products are sold in Canada, although some may already be manufactured by the Andrew Jergens Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. For many decades, Jergens soap products have been manufactured by Jergens Canada in Perth, Ontario, Canada, where they are packed with bilingual packaging. The Andrew Jergens Company has recently announced that they plan to close the Canadian manufacturing facility and they will manufacture Jergens products for Canada from their Cincinnati, Ohio facility, but will produce the Canadian product with bilingual packaging. If a tractor trailer of Jergens soap products shows up at the Canadian border with English only labeling, it will be refused entry into Canada by Canada Customs and turned back to Cincinnati.
British didn’t kick French out because they needed us. To maintain troops, you need houses, you need food supplies. Who would grow food and provide services to the British army? Also we knew the territory.
Native people didn't need the French at all when Cartier arrived, but they helped them survive and welcomed them anyway.
@@Sid-gu5qk and for that their children where sent off to residential schools and murdered
If somebody immigrate to germany, france, italy or japan, I'm sure that the government doesn't give them services in english for 6 months or even a day. Of course, if the immigration doesn't explain that to immigrants, they might think that Québec is english and then, of course, upset of the 6 months rule, but in 6 months, somebody that wants to learn a new language can make a lot of progress and be able to communicate in french
There are 9 other provinces to go if you want to speak only in english
They are not immigrating to Quebec they are immigrating to Canada.
Do they immigrate to Frankfurt Germany?
Quebec not being a country makes thise comparison a bit skiff. There is only a few cases like this worldwide where a region is trying to protect the culture and the probably closest one is the Catalan culture in Spain. Until Quebec has full autonomy over its immigration there isn't much that can be done, except those laws that seems ridiculous to even have to do, but apparently are necessary.
@MrIanD1 and? If they ask the provincial government something in a french only province, it's in french. If you're saying that since canada is a bilingual country, i guess then that a french only speaking person can have any services they want in Alberta?
Leearning languages is a great way to open your mind to other cultures. I am from Québec, I am French, but also speak English, German, and my Italian is coming along. But the official language here is French. That's the public sphere. If someone asks for directions or for other kind of help, and they have very minimal French, of course I will try to help in a language they unnderstand. That is part of the private sphere. It's important to know the difference between public and private. Oh, and Bill 101 was voted as Law in 1977, so it's been around for quite some time now.
NEITHER the public NOR the private sphere are supported in Quebec for non-Francophones, as they should be. Not everyone is like you, I can tell you, in offering help - even with little children. Even in a place like Montreal where there IS a lot of knowledge of the English language. I find Quebec City a LOT better at least.
Furthermore, it is MORE important that there be acceptance & help in the PUBLIC sphere, as this involves laws & policies that people must know & conform to & the language involved here is often much more problematic as it isn't always everyday language.
Yes, Bill 101 has been around for a long time, but that doesn't make it any better. In fact MANY big companies left Montreal & moved to Toronto (taking the jobs with them) back in the day BECAUSE of Bill 101 - & this is only that one negative aspect to the legislation.
@@Carrie-so3ro I wonder, in English schools, don't children learn French? Learning English at school bears no danger of forming linguistic geniuses, to paraphrase Austen, but why aren't more languages taught in the early years of schooling?
@@divaloulou franco onterian here we learn english in the first grade and its the same level as sec 2 english in quebec city
In general, the second generation of immigrants to Quebec are totally bilingual.
Yes original langage and english 5:44
Minorities in Quebec speak the most languages in the whole country, and are often quadrilingual because they were often already minorities from wherever they came from.
Québec has lots of Armenian-Lebanese and Chinese-Cambodians, for instance, and along with the two languages they already knew, and add on French and English, and you can see what I mean.
That is because Quebec controls immigration into Quebec. In earlier times, the Quebec government tried to keep new immigrants from the French language by barring the children from entering the French schools - forcing them to go to the Province's English language schools - as they said that these immigrants would dirty the language & environment.
This is by far the best video you ever did about Québec. Thank you
In 1908, The great benefactor of education that was mr Mc Guill, made a petition to close down the french primary schools in Québec. That's just a little exemple of the hatred power full english people have toward french in this country. you can also read the Durham report that was ratified by the king, specifying the mission of the Canadian gouvernement to assimilate the french "for their one good." French has always been menaced in canada, there's nothing new, we always had to fight, we are still fighting and we're not about to loose. N'écoutez pas les angélistes ni les les oiseaux de mauvaise augure.
Le Canada : 150 ans de lois contre le français / Vigile.Québec
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@@linefrenette9116 Merci
I notice your examples of hatred to the French language are from 1908 AND EARLIER!
It is now the Francophones who behave this way to everyone else in Quebec.
NEITHER is acceptable!
@@Carrie-so3ro Sources?
@@andreannegarant6346 Bill 101, Bill 96
You can absolutely get by in english in Québec. In Montréal, nearly every french speaker is bi-lingual. The issue is that if 10 bi-lingual french speakers hang out with 1 unilingual english speaker, the entire group switches to english. Its the same in jobs, relationships, families, friend groups etc. Because of this, people don't actually have to learn french, so regulations have to step in.
Regulations do NOT have to step in. People can change the way they behave in a respectful manner. Often times Francophones will NOT give the Anglo/Allophone a chance with their French & CHOOSE to switch to English (often with a smirk & an eye roll if the English speaker is not fast enough in speaking.) English speakers tend to be MUCH more supportive in allowing & helping a French speaker in their midst learn English.
Instead of having a bilingual conversation - part in English & part in French or else all in a slightly slower French until the English speaker in your group gets more used to it - you think that oppressive government regulations that deny people rights should be instituted.
It is worth noting that the "Quiet Revolution" happened at the same time as that big feminist push in the '60s/early '70s, which is in part why Quebec is the most egalitarian society in North America, and even most or the world (save for some Scandinavian countries and other exceptions). We were late into giving women the right to vote, but we heavily subsidized childcare, and gave parental (mother *and* father) leave, and those worded so well the Canadian Government then pushed the idea country-wide. Oh, and women are do not change their last name to their husband's anymore. And we have the highest number of "common-law couples" (unmarried, but still considered like a family for legal purposes). Etc. It really changed a lot in the way French-speaking (francophones) Quebecers think about themselves and view their society. Very much worth exploring.
ah yes the quiet revelution lets not forget the quebec goverment and the caholic church forcing 16-30 year old womans to marrie men ranging from 20-80s to have kids every year so that the french population would be higher then the irish population in montreal theres a reason franco onterians existe they were french speaking french and irish running from quebec and the quebecs catholic church so they would not be forced to have kids. ever wonder why in quebec the idea of your great grandmother had 13-16 kids was normal
I am a french speaking from Québec and i am proud of my province also but am also glad that i can speak english je suis Québecoise et fière 😊👍
I went in Ottawa for a long weekend and had more service in French than I have in Montreal.
It make you realise that's a big problem when you cant be served in french is your own province.
Same few years ago. i was surpised
@@frank_qc8506 It is the mayor Valérie Plante who is not doing her job properly. She is often criticized for not encouraging french in Montreal.
Ça me surprend énormément. Mon expérience est exactement l’inverse.
thats saying something coz there isnt that much
Hello there. I'm a Quebecois living in Saguenay (formerly a resident of Montreal). I have a few rectifications to do :
1. The vast majority of young people speak English because of social media. Anywhere you go, if you encounter a young person between the ages of 18-34 that person is most likely going to be able to speak English
2. With regards to the hospitals, it applies to official signs. If you arrive at the hospital through the emergency, all doctors and nurses who can speak English will speak in English with you, same as it would happen in any European country
3. Montreal is very anglophone. In fact, during my 9 years living in Montreal, I only spoke French at university (French university) and with my first roommate. All the other roommates that I had didn't speak French.
4. Big companies based outside of Quebec do not really care about Bill 101. Think about it : a French speaking employee who is forced to speak in English with a manager based in Montreal will not make a complaint to the OQLF because no worker wants to be fired if the management finds out about the complaint. In my company, the predominant language is English for internal communications. I could complaint but I won't because I don't want to get in trouble. My manager is from the US and has been living in Quebec for 10-15 years and she is still speaking English with everybody. The director who was raised by a French Canadian mother and an American father (dual citizenship) in Montreal can speak both languages with no accent but he still has the habit of doing his meetings with us in English even when nobody from outside of Quebec is involved in the meeting (because we also work with people from our offices in Toronto, India & Philippines)
Yes, French is in decline in Quebec and Canada. Quebec had to adopt a law 101 since the Canadian federal government didn't give a damn about our linguistic rights and still doesn't care today.
And since we have laws 101 and 96, English Canadians who have not appreciated us since 1763 and who since law 22 (making French our official language since 1974) call us all the names for example: fascists, red-necked and so on in addition to the Quebec bashing that they have made us live since 1763 .
After that, English Canadians wonder why we want to separate.
Vive le Québec libre !
So you listened to some bigots and think that's what all English Canadians think? If what you say is true, then how do you explain all the French Immersion classes in Ontario from K -12 overflowing with waiting lists?
@@steelcom5976 So explain to yourself how it is that several provincial premiers, including Rob Ford, spend their time playing with the rights of Francophones by closing Francophone hospitals and schools?
And by the way, French language immersion is not worth the teaching of a French school.
@@linefrenette9116 You said, "And by the way, French language immersion is not worth the teaching of a French school."
That's really disrepectful of the efforts my kids made and to me who demanded French Immersion classes. You want French to be protected which is laudable and then recklessly attack my family's efforts to learn French to fluency because they did it in a way you don't like? You're a very nasty person.
@@steelcom5976 No, but it's true since entirely French-speaking schools don't just offer French immersion but mathematics and other subjects in French, which you English trivialize and reduce to a state of immersion, which is not enough for complete schooling in French.
One key word that is missing from many of these videos is Montreal. Montreal is Quebec's Metropolis, has 1/3 of all of Quebec's population and is very, VERY, multicultural. I heard that the most spoken language in Montreal is neither English nor french. It's like either chinese or arabic. Anyways, that's mostly where the French issues happens. The farther away you get from Montreal, less and less bilingual people are and less and less of these laws actually matters.
Also I am a public worker (working at municipality level in a Montreal suburb)) and I am told I can no longer speak to people in English, period. I feel that it's rude and not helping in any way.
Oh and most of us think that the whole OQLF police thing is sooooo ridiculous. It's way too intense and targeting the wrong problems.
That is insane. I’m English and just moved to Brossard and the fact youre told you cannot speak English with me is infuriating. I’m willing to learn French and trying to but the fact that i can’t access public services when I’m less than 2 hours from the border is insane.
@@Swisba I know right ? I am French and pro-Quebec as a country and even I know that anglophone inclusivity is a big part of having a unified province / country. By doing stupid shit like that, they just make a bad situation worse.
Many of the products available in Walmart-style stores are in English, French and Spanish
as far as I know, every product sold in Canada has to have bilingual writing on it. Not sure about the official laws about this, but it's just the norm.
Yeah A tri-Lingual approach for Canada, USA and Mexico and Latin America. Add Brazilian Portuguese for covering all country in America and the Carabeans except so weird place who had Dutch Speakers and old Deutch Speaker aka Memmonites aka Amish.
@@Spotnick2 For the most part, you are absolutely right. There are a few exceptions, though. If someone has a small business and only sells their product locally, the product labelling only has to be in the language primarily spoken in the area of distribution.
There is a lot of history and a lot to unpack here, too much for a UA-cam comment. But I will say this: immigrating to Quebec must be like immigrating to France, Germany, China, Japan, etc...There must be an expectation that everything will be in the local language, which in Quebec is French. You can speak however many other languages, but much like living in a non-English-speaking country, English will not be enough to thrive.
Bill 96 may go a little too far, especially for foreign students, but there is nothing abnormal for French to be the only language, potentially, in whatever you are doing in Quebec. That's perfectly normal for a French nation. And Tyler is right: Quebec is a distinct nation within the country of Canada.
BTW, the CAQ is a provincial party and Bill 96 is a provincial legislation. This is analogous to state-level parties and laws in the US.
Now, previous laws also forced French in business. The reason is simple and historic: the Office of the French Language must ensure that French speakers can be served in French and work in French. And why was this required? Well, my mom explained to me that it would happen regularly enough that she could NOT be served in French in downtown Montreal, as recently as like sixty years ago, especially in the business district. And you could forget about working in French in higher end positions, too. That's bonkers, as though you could only be served in English in downtown Paris. Thus, many French speakers in Quebec are still worried about a similar situation happening to them or their children.
I won't explain too much here as to how it got that bad, but the Calm Revolution in the sixties was meant to take down and reverse a systematic enforcement of English as the dominating language in Quebec, requested to the Catholic Church by the English long ago. Even as the rest of Canada no longer cared about converting the French Canadians to becoming English, the Catholic Church was much too happy to continue well into the 20th century.
Now, assuming that these new measures work somewhat, opportunities in Quebec will need to become more attractive and Quebec culture itself may need to become even more distinct, in order to attract sufficient French-speaking immigrants to help it grow, and also remain relevant in overall Canadian politics, assuming the same immigrants obtain citizenship.
Quebec will need drastic changes in its regulations, both at provincial and municipal levels, and proper investments in public transit, in order to fix the housing crisis, institute a culture of portfolio investments in Quebec businesses, and foster foreign investments in the same, in order to become economically more attractive, perhaps even more so than the rest of Canada, and more importantly, to retain talent in the province. It will need to better promote Quebec culture outside of Quebec, its Epicurean way of life, in other words how Quebecers live their best life and even have less stranger danger than in many other countries, its music, movies, TV shows, literature and other arts, in order to entice more people to learn French with the explicit desire to immigrate to Quebec and engage with its culture.
Spot on!
Totally agree with bill 96 and also bill 21 NB most of the province support this law. Quebec wants to keep his french language and also want to have services where any king of religious symbole are present.
50 years ago when i went shopping in Montreal with my mother, i thought i was in an other country since nobody talked french in the 1960' and 1970's. Because of bill 101 we are able to get french services.
As for being served in French in downtown Montréal, it is still pretty hard. Most of the times I don't even get the classic yet controversial "Bonjour!/Hi!" anymore. There are even a few stores I went to, like 2 months ago, who were absolutely unable to serve me in French.
Exactly! Exactement !
@@Zartren the idea of Bill 96 is not bad but it's execution is terrible. As a public worker, I am not allowed to speak English, period. Even though I am bilingual. So if someone is to talk to me in English while I'm working, it's basically a "sucks to be you" situation.
There should be a distinction between "employees should at least be able to speak French" vs "employees are not allowed to speak anything but French" !
Yes, absolutely. I fully support these measures. Quebec has a long history of English-speaking Canadians who have lived here for generations, making them, rightfully, Quebecers too. However, because Quebec is part of Canada, and given that France lost its colony to England long ago, some feel they don't need to learn the language of the majority. Interestingly, foreign visitors often grasp the precarious state of French in Quebec better than some locals. Many Anglophones see these efforts as anti-English, but as you've rightly understood, it's about preserving the French language and ensuring its survival.
It's important to note that many English-speaking Canadians do understand and respect this. I work for a French (Paris) company, but my role is under the umbrella of their American subsidiary, covering all of North America and thus my work language is mostly English. Being the only French speaker on my team, I see firsthand how my American colleagues, while perhaps not fully grasping the depth of our cultural context, are supportive of preserving our heritage. They even try to sprinkle in some French words from time to time for fun!
As for your question about getting by in English, the answer is yes. With the rise of the Internet, most of the younger generation is quite functional in English. However, if you find yourself in a group with three Francophones, don't be surprised if the conversation often switches to French. If there are ten, it will switch right away, but you'll find plenty of willing translators if you need help.
Thanks for another excellent video, Tyler!
As a French Quebecer, I didn't really understood nor cared about what would happen to the language in Québec in the future when I was young. But as I became an adult, I started to understand why Québec tried to separate from the rest of Canada. I would be really sad if in 20-30 years from now it becomes a natural occurence to have to speak English with cashiers at supermarket, bankers etc. That may seem very shallow of me, but that's how I feel about the situtation.
17:10 Not everyone is bilingual, but around 90 to 95% of people that speaks French as a main language are bilingual. For example my father, my brother, my sister and I can speak English, but my mother hasn't learned it since she dropped out of school around the 70s to find work at 14 years old. I think a small amount of older people also struggle with English, but the vast majority of young people can.
24:24 The particular thing about Québec French is that it's extremely different than French spoken in Europe or Africa, it doesn't exist anywhere else. Our vocabulary, idioms, way of living and accent is vastly different than every other French speakers around the world. We are able to change our accent really easily to match the ones in Paris for example, so we can be understood, but they cannot. If Québécois (Québec French) dies, there's nobody else to preserve it.
25:30 They can, but I don't think it happens often. Maybe immigrants get an check after a few months or years after having settled down, but I can't find any testimony on this so I can't give my insights on this.
Sorry if anyone feels offended by something I could've said, but I genuinely think everything I've said above.
it's sad to see, but as they say, history repeat itself, after all, it happened right here in Acadia which is next door.
As an Acadian, I feel for you, and I hope the situation gets better than it did over here.
your point on Québec french being vastly different to other french is rather comical to me, as each french from old french colonies are vastly different. Think Acadian French, Cajun French, Créole French.
And no, you are not able to change your accent to Paris french, that is false. We can change our french to a standardized/universal french but trust me, every one knows your Québecois, even if you speak that standard french
So nice to see you make an effort to understand our culture! And don’t worry, if you ever come to Québec one day, most people are able to speak English. But we appreciate when tourists try to speak French, it make us feel seen.
New Brunswick is officially bilingual. French is also spoken in Northern Ontario, parts of Manitoba, and Alberta. It is spoken in Louisiana. I speak 3 languages ,but as a Canadian I feel ashamed that I do not speak French very well.
When I spoke my horrible French in Quebec, I was often ask if if I speak English.
Other languages can be used in Quebec on signs if French is written 10% larger.
Keep practicing it will become easier every day. Had to live for the summer in an english only area to feel better with my english.
Don't forget Maine, there is a large population of french speaking American in Maine
I'm a francophone women from Québec but I am proud to be bilingual and the problem I have with some of the laws protecting French is how they are applied. And about the pasta incident, the OQLF looked like idiots and were made fun off and had to apologize. Also nobody can learn French in 6 months, especially written French! Heck I was educated in French and thank goodness for spell check cause I still make mistakes. French is a very complicated language.
@@GigiC4 I can read French (barely) but someone speaking French at me? Blank stare.
You are working against yourself, always the same rhetoric about pasta gate blablabla, stay quiet.
@@BruceMcKay-gq8yq I used to do the same thing if someone spoke english to me. If you ask them to talk more slowly and tell them you understand a little french, they will try to help you with simple words. We also have jerks who won't
Fucking conjugaison 😂
@@avenged7peep958 lol, ye
English class is mandatory in Quebec starting at grade 4 all the way through high school and the credits you get from passing are necessary to pass each grade... Buuuuut, alot of people put the bare minimum effort in it to just pass and never use it afterwards, but most people could speak both, some just never use it so their english is pretty bad.
I was fluent in both french and English before I was done with pre school.
You can still get by as a tourist speaking only English because most people who work in customer service speak both.
english classesn in québec city are worst my teacher could almost not speak would make a lot of mistakes and would give a passing grade for just putting down anything even if it was in french and had no relations sec 2 english is at about grade 1 english in a french school in ottawa. montreal is way better at it though
All it takes is 1 generation for a language to die. My sisters and I all went to a french school in New Brunswick: one of our parents has 2 francophone parents, the other has 1 francophone & 1 anglophone parent... That parent literally has told us to not speak French around them because he can't understand. When I was 8, they divorced, and we moved to a French part of the province. Outside of the under 2 months a year we spent with the anglophone parent or speaking to our 1 not francophone grandparent, I did not speak English.
My cousin's on the only french side of my family have 2 francophone parents: their mother had an in home daycare that had anglophone kids, so they grew up speaking English... So now as adults they do understand if you are speaking French, but will more likely than not answer in English.
I need to speak and write in french for my job, because NB is the bilingual province, all government services must be available in English and in french, and I am the liaison for the company I work for & the Department of social development, so I am required to speak & write both official languages.
I graduated from a French highschool in 2013, but then went to an English university, and stopped using my French for around 8 years, unless it was to take an order at the restaurant I worked at. When I started at my company and regularly needed to use french again after 8 years, it was rough. I realised that my brain no longer thinks I'm french unless I am surrounded by it. 😅
My partner's family is all anglophone, and I have made it clear that if we have kids, they will attend the local french schools, because it is important for me that my kids be able to communicate with all their family, but also for them to be connected to my French culture.
I don't understand why it seems so weird, if I want to live in china I have to learn Chinese, in U.S it's English and in France it's French... Why is it so hard to understand ? 😅
because some people are frck s.d
if you´re in Belgium, do you learn French or Flemish? Is perhaps knowing both a good idea? in India there are 14 official languages, same in Russia, switzerland has 3, decided at the canton level... Did you know that 40% of Danes can speak German? Why would that be?
You won't learn Chinese in China as Chinese is not a language.. You will learn Mandarin or Cantonese.... saying you'll learn Chinese is like someone saying they'll come to Canada and learn Canadian or go to Australia and learn Australian
& in Canada (an Officially bilingual country) you should learn English AND French.
You can easily live in english in any of the big cities (Montreal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Laval etc). Most people in these cities are bilingual. But the point is that we learn english to know another language for the added knowledge and access to english culture but it doesn’t mean we want to lose our own culture. The point is that everyone should learn more than one language! It’s such an amazing thing to be able to partake in more than one culture.
@@YoshMaster - I think bilingualism is beautiful and a must. I dislike certain sectors pushing it down our throats. With all the immigration; Canadians might fair better off learning something outside of, or in addition to French. I am amazed by by bilingual/trilingual and more so with people who know multiple languages. Sign language fascinates me. I just wish.
@@user-pm8iy4rg6q Most post secondaire student in Europe speak 3 and more languages
@@user-pm8iy4rg6q I think bilingualism is beautiful and a must.'' Nice but the only place in fact where is bilingual in this country is Québec and a part of New Brunswick . Welcome to reality . Even the Gouverneur général du Canada don't speak french ,Does this seem normal to you?
If so then why do Anglophones refuse to learn French? Bilingualism in Canada has always been a massive joke. A too large percentage of people moving in Quebec refuses to learn French. Outside of Quebec you would have more luck to be served in Spanish, Mandarin or Punjabi than French.
@@kallyfestThe gouverneur général is billingual, speaking English and Inuktitut. And she is learning French, been taking lessons for several years now and soon she will be trilingual.
I am a Quebecer, I didn't know English before my adulthood, always having bad notes in English until I learned with videos games and TV series. My world completely go outside down as I always watched Quebecer series and news and everyone around me didn't know well English that much. I was moved close to Montreal where it was cool to speak English and since I want to be a part of the student group, I make effort to know English. I stopped watching Quebecer media and start watching UA-camr from other country like you, Tyler. (stop the cables, now full on streaming)
It's feel like my mind was more open to new possibility to how to spend time, and I lost maybe a part of Quebecer spirit along the ride. For that, I feel the both problem of only French speaker and bilingual can have. When I only knew French, it was scary to see so much people who talk a language I didn't know, I wanted to close the gasp as much as possible and be relatable. Now that I know English, it's feel almost like I didn't see the possibility to be myself and keep speaking French despite opinion on others. Now that I know so much about other cultures though English, I also feel distant with people who only know French, like I abandon them.
Still, I understand the decline of French, it's feel unavoidable. I did talk about the rise of English and bilingual people with a follow bilingual, who see this as a good thing that past doesn't need to be keep it, if it's slow us down. But I like to think now that Quebec relate too much to others culture and if we need to keep our culture intact, thinking about other thing that language should be also a good discussion!
Quebec have more than just poutine and French language to worry on! I like to think that millennial and below Quebecer are naturally Ecologist worrier. Making cities adopt compost back is something I didn't hear from others provinces! Hydropowers, gaming industries and animations! We are the most producer of VFX in North America.
Other things about our culture: Most of the people going north in holidays constructions in summer, eating lobster and looking for camping with friend and family is a part of ours culture as well! We all know someone who go to ski in winter, and we all know someone who play or watch hockey. We all know that maybe that next 1 July will help a friend to move up or listen to a Quebecer song in the radio and know the lyric by heart. There are many things Quebecer experiences that another place cannot do, and I think it's culture as well. ^^
Sorry for the big comment et à tout mes companions Québequois, je vous souhaite à tous de bonnes fins de vacances et bonne rentrée! Prennez soins de vous tous!
C´est bien dit.
Moving Day is a real cultural thing... Is that just Montreal where July 1st is ¨Moving Day" or is it across the whole province? ... yeah the week around the beginnig of June is a whole season, when people rent vehicles and boxes, and find 2nd hand furniture on the curb... it´s a whole deal. ;-) for others: Most apartment leases try to end on July 1st. dunno why, it just is that way... so like 1/4 of Quebec moves on July 1st every year.
Knowledge is always a good thing. It gives you more opportunities. Also, now that you know French media & English media - you can CHOOSE which you want, when you want. If you feel that you are starting to lose your own personal French self, you can switch back to all or mostly French entertainment again & come back to the English side every once in a while to see what you are missing there. By being open-minded to others & other things, you give yourself more control over your life & what YOU want. That is the best. (Also you are right that culture is part of what you do for entertainment & activities, food etc. It is all of it.)
@Carrie-so3ro Your right! I need to be more proud of myself and my accomplishment!
Your understanding of the french situation in Quebec is better than most of the ROC Citizen (Rest of Canada)
No, its not. His compassion is stronger because he doesn't see the full situation.
Years ago, we used to hang out, a bunch of friends together. Our group was formed of both francos and anglos, and we used to go see movies on Friday nights, and then get to a West-island bar and end the night there. We must have seen all big movies that came out that summer... Batman, Lethal Weapon 2, name it! But a Quebec-made movie also came out during that summer, "Cruising Bar". our ablgophones friends didn't want to back up on us and came to see it. Coming out of the theater, they were... let's say polite 😄 They were expecting an american-like comedy and didn't quite get that. I fondly remember one of them saying: "That was... interesting". So, after the movie, we got to the same west-island bar. We had been in for, what, 5-10 minutes? After observing the various people in it, my friend Bruce turned toward me and said "That movie is a masterpiece!". I'm telling that because most of my friends didn't know that much about Quebec culture (in general), but when they discovered it, they absolutely loved it.
Cruising Bar is a satyre of 4 male character play by same actor Michel Côté. One is the Bull a typical uncle/Husband who is a sales man who says he works a lot but who is actually sleeping around behind his wife back, the other is a snob the peacock a guy who got all money, looks everything but is a guy who can only love himself.
the other is a guy is the worm or the Carpet who can not make himself respected and end up in bad place because he can't said no. He choose the wrong bar an end up the night as the bottom in a sex donjon in a gay bar while he is straight .
The fourth one is a party boy (the rooster) who love his girlfriend very much but get in trouble because he party too hard (Drink too much and do drugs). The Girlfriend left him because she is fed up with his lack of Maturity
As an immigrant living in English Canada for over 30 years, I can say that I learned French because I like the language not because it was forced upon me, it works for me, I use English most of the time and french when necessary, when I approach francophone speakers I do so in french, most of them will switch to English because of my accent and I have to ask them politely to speak french with me so I can keep practicing (otherwise I'll lose this ability). I have worked with other immigrants that come from french speaking countries and most of them start learning English as soon as they arrive.
Hello Tyler, if it seems normal to you that Quebec is protecting and saving its culture and language, it is quite different in the rest of Canada, certain provinces in the rest of Canada are financing protest movements against Bill 96 all the way to the Supreme Court, is this normal in your opinion? Every inch that the Quebec government gains for the protection of its language is perceived by English speakers as an attack on them when it is an additional protection for its survival, even the Prime Minister said that it is a question of survival. There will only be one way to save French, it is by separating from Canada and forming a new country where our laws will no longer be contested by another government.
bill 96 is stupid and it's main achievement is making it harder for francophones who want to improve their English to do so by limiting their access to English colleges and universities. Yeah that does make Québec more French, but I don´t think it´s a good way to go about it.
A Sovereign Quebec would pass all laws in French... um... they already are.
A Sovereign Quebec would ban illegal immigration... um... it's already illegal... it's in the name...
A Sovereign Quebec would choose it's immigrants... it already does, biggest source of legal immigrants is France.
A Sovereign Quebec would pass language laws... um.. you mean like bill 63, bill 22, bill 101, bill 96... And with the handy-dandy notwithstanding clause you can completely skip thost pesky rights guaranteed by the constitution.
So like, what's the point? Separating does not change a thing.... when the new country is formed, there will still be 1M allophones and 1M anglophones, about 20% of the population... and their institution. So like... what´s your plan?
what about Acadians in NB? we here are very comfortably living our lives as french speakers without thinking every 2 seconds about a need to separate. We have saved our French dialect and our Acadian culture through hard times, which includes the deportation of 80% of our population. I don't really agree that you need your own country to save your culture
My family is Quebecquois but migrated to Ontario in the 50s. Unlike other Franco-Ontarians, we were the only French-speaking family and did not pass the language on to the next generation. It was important to adapt to blend in. My grandparents even changed their name. In my opinion, the decline has been happening for at least three generations due to economic reasons.
In the Montreal region, the majority of people are bilingual (French and English) and there are many young people who speak 3 languages. The language of their immigrant parents, English on the street and French at school.
But the further you go to the North East, the more it is only French-speaking.
I am French speaking and I listen to your videos to practice my English. 😀
We an English Canadian family who do know French from school immersion visited Quebec City and we’re a little concerned about how people would be towards us, because you hear stereotypes. They were all wrong. Everyone was a friendly as you’d expect in the rest of Canada. Most young people easily spoke English to us, and let us try our French. We don’t have the correct accent of course, so they often said you can speak English if you want.
I'm about to start this video, just wanted to say to Tyler he has no clue that he's repeatedly kicking a hornet's nest with this topic. Good luck.
This is something that happens every time he does a video about Canadian political topics. I guess all the angry/earnest comments help the algorithm, or something.
why is this a tricky topic
@@Zamoksva it's because of a long tricky history since Seven Years' War! The situation is really complexe!!! And it's easy to trigger any english or french speaker in canada with it!!!
I think he did a very good job at staying respectful. Of course he doesn't know about the French minorities in other provinces... French exists outside of Québec albeit in very little numbers.
I would also love if he could do a video on Acadia...
@@paolozambito I agree! I think he was respectful and unless he did a bunch of research he couldn't understand the French/English dynamic in Canada. I love Acadie and live in it nearby to Francophone communities.
Quebec history is pretty interesting because its the history of how our country got founded. How the english came and claimed canada as their dominion(and it still is on paper). Our french heritage has always been a symbol of rebelion against the english... so ofc as quebecers we get pissed when we can't even speak french in our own towns.... most people don't understand the history behind the french heritage and why keeping french alive is very much important.
When can you NOT speak French "in [your] own towns?" The only issue is your lack of acceptance of others & their heritage. Neither the French language nor the French culture is dying - that is only a piece of propaganda the government uses to push its extremist, separatist agenda. Look around! How much of Quebec contains Francophones? - NEVER MIND that Quebec is NOT the only place in Canada with French heritage. Don't forget that the Provinical separatist government is in charge of education in Quebec & don't forget all the funding for French heritage - TV shows, movies, singers, cultural events.
There is NO NEED to put in oppressive government legislation to save something that doesn't need saving - & cause problems for other Canadians - who are part of the diversity celebrated ELSEWHERE in the country.
By the way, Kamala Harris did attend High School in Montreal when she was a teenager.
In the rest of Canada, at least 1 person of each governmental services (Canada offices, museums, post offices) have to be "bilingual"... in theory.. Canada's official bilingual policy not concern provincial governments (laws and services) and all city related services.
Despite Quebec's provincial laws favorizing French, it greatly accommodate its minorities by the side. Like very reputed colleges, universities and hospitals ment for English-only speakers (mostly in Montreal), everything being funded by the provincial government... unlike other provinces (like Ontario) who generally refuse to do the same for French speakers. In Montreal, you can spend your whole life speaking only in English... most of these laws are ment to prevent people to do so. Not even southern US states accommodate that much their Latino communities.
However unlike Spanish who's talk all over South and Central Americas (far from endangered)... French is unique to Quebec (and very few Canadian communities) and need to be preserved by provincial laws, because the rest of Canada really don't care (as government).
The best politic for to preserve french language and culture in Québec is the independence!
that would be an economic disaster for Canada and for Quebec
@@andrewdemarco3512 thats what they said to black ppl when they wanted rights
@@antoineharvey-boudreault5565 the difference is you have rights. You have the right to speak your language freely. You were given all sorts of concessions including your own legal system, and protections for your language and culture. You were treated better than pretty much any other conqured people in history. The language police and other draconic authoritarian laws give you privellege inside your province. There are more than one group of people living in your province. Do your rights supersede those of others? Did black people demand that everyone stop speaking English and start speaking their African languages? Did they demand their own province or state to become independant just for them? This is really a false equivalency.
@@andrewdemarco3512 yeah but not the right to structurre politically in the way that we conceive freely as those rights are blatanly encroached upon by brittish colonizers
@@andrewdemarco3512
Not at all! Québec will be a country also rich than actual Canada, may be more. An evidence exist about this subject.
The hard truth is that Quebeckers are much more closer to Americans culturally than France's french. They live on the North American continent after all. It's only when I traveled to France as a Québécois that I got to realize I'm much more of an American who just happened to learn Quebec french as a first language, .... and American English as a second language.
The autoroutes in QC even rip off the interstate system. Nowhere else in Canada has the red and blue interstate style shields.
Yes. Thank you.
true, but don't forget, Québec follow le droit civil and not the common law for its provincial laws.
You also have to realize that our french, I'm Acadian, also comes from France. and while it has many difference, just like your French, there was no standardization of it. In France, after the establishment New France and Acadia, king Louis XIV imposed for all of France to speak the "royal" french. Therefore the french spoken in our cultures were old dialects that were then influenced by each other and by english through the last 300-400 years on the American continent.
Interestingly, another reason why our french, Acadian french, is different to Québecois french, is because we were two colonies with different French origins :)
we're not even at preserving anything yet, we barely just created our institutions 50 years ago in the big anglophone continent! The problem is Montreal really! And the french are actually still financing english schools all over the province for anyone who's parent had their education in english and can prove it. And their system is financed BETTER than ours even, to this day. But oh you'll hear complains. It's not like they can move anywhere else... or so it looks like.
Why should we move. Quebec is our home too. That is why there has ALWAYS been a public English school system in Quebec.. from DAY ONE. For you to say "the french are still financing the English schools across the province" is to deny the heritage of this province, the historic rights of its own citizens, and the contributions to Quebec that those citizens contributed to make Quebec what it is today. You are essentially treating your fellow citizens as second class citizens, or outsiders.. all because they have English ancestry. That is why you call Montreal "a problem". Your entire mindset revolves around denigrating these citizens and you do it quite openly. I guess you think denying history and being hostile towards Les Anglais is going to advance your dream of c le N zing Quebec and encouraging its citizens of English ancestry to leave the province. Don't hold your breath on that ever happening. Because the anglos of Quebec who stayed here after all the bs of the pequistes in the 70s to 90s are NEVER going to leave. Our home is Quebec, and the separatists can take a hike.
@@MK-fc2hnWe don’t want you to leave we want just don’t want to be the one to be assimilated in our own territory
@@titaniom77 And I don't want that either. I want Quebec to preserve its predominant language and culture while also respecting its historic minority English population. It's possible to walk and chew gum at the same time, but unfortunately some of the separatists in this province use preserving the language as an excuse to take out their hostility towards Les Anglais. I remember as a kid seeing "Anglo Go Home" written in graffiti on the walls of buildings here in Montréal, so I am sensitive to obnoxious people treating English Quebecers as outsiders despite the generations of contributions my ancestors have made to building this province. When the OP says "we still fund their schools" he is literally denying that anglo quebecers are paying their fair share into ALL the public services in this province. And as a taxpayer in this province who earns a higher than average income, I take offence to that because I pay a fortune in taxes that contribute to this province. I am a citizen too, and I will remind the separatists of that whenever the opportunity arises.
@@MK-fc2hn Historically, the anglo minority were the rich and that is also partially true today. Today, many anglo school are very well funded because of that. I believe that OP was mixing his facts, however it is true that many immigrants chose to go to better funded schools that were english speaking because of this, which is very scary and upsetting to us, since previously they wouldn’t have really learned french. Also, Quebec only official language is french, it would be weird to go to Italy expecting to be able to live there speaking only english.
@@titaniom77 It's very debatable whether anglo quebecers have higher incomes than francophone quebecers. It depends how you measure many factors. But a strong case can be made that the median income has been lower for anglos for a long time. And the unemployment rate is generally higher. But I don't care either way. Education, and career success is ultimately a personal thing, and I think all quebecers have the ability to achieve success if they want it. As for English schools being well funded, it is true in the case of universities, because McGill for example has been a world class institution for a very long time. That success has been a net benefit for Quebec in so many ways.. too many to state here. So any cutting of their funding for political exploitation in my view is to the detriment of Quebec, not to its benefit. We are not about to have English speaking citizens of other provinces enrolling in uqam instead, so they will choose other provinces to study in and Quebec will lose out on all of the economic benefits that they bring to the province and have brought to the province for many, many years. But I guess we will hear less English on ste Catherine Street so that's what's important for intolerant nationalists who deny that montreal has been an English speaking city since the 1700s ( as well as being a French speaking city) .. reality is upsetting.. and the current government knows how to exploit the fears of the majority population for political power.
As for Italy, you have to keep in mind that Quebec has two founding nations. The English, or any other nation would indeed be foreigners in Italy.. but the English are not foreigners in Quebec. We settled in this province when it was under British control. And ultimately, both the English and the French who settled here are European colonizers. So there's nothing foreign about English in Quebec. But I do agree that new immigrants to Quebec, whether they speak English or some other languages should be enrolled in French schools only. I would make an exception for some students who are coming from English speaking countries, but generally speaking it's better for Quebec overall if the vast majority of them are immersed into French language and culture. Quebec is unique and should promote its French character as much as possible. But draconian measures that are auth oritar Ian in nature should be rejected.. either by the representatives of the people, or by the judicial branch of government that is suppose to uphold minority rights.
Meanwhile here in BC in almost all school districts parents can be seen camping out for at least a day or two in front of French Immersion schools to try and get a spot for their child in Kindergarten. I wish the BC government would increase the French taught in regular schools early on so it is easier for children to learn it. My child is in the French Immersion program since K, and will graduate with his double diploma in two years. It was important for me to have him learn French, we are a country with two official languages and I wanted him to know both. If any parent of young children read my comment I HIGHLY encourage them to consider putting their child in French Immersion in K. The education they get is superior to regular English only classes. And no I, nor my husband speak French.
Merci de faire connaître notre réalité.
I’m not from Quebec but I am a Canadian francophone. It is insanely hard to KEEP your French in Canada, because everyone around you is speaking English. My cousins lived in Quebec and went to school there all their lives. Weirdly enough when I communicate to them in French they respond to me in English… My entire family on that side is francophone… Even my mom, who’s first language was French, after 15 years in the federal government, she’s starting to lose it. (Believe it or not the federal government prefer to work in English.)
Depending where you live in Quebec, some region has a lot of people who are bilingual. I live in Qc but right on the border of Ontario. A lot of Qc resident here works in Ontario therefore, a large percentage of the population in this region can speak English. Nothing wrong with speaking English and living in Qc in my own opinion, it's a plus to speak multiple languages. Understand that what the government try to push and the hard reality are very different. I am a Quebecers but I don't see any issues with speaking English. I love my culture and hope it stays around, there is a way to make it both work but forcing it down people's throat will not help the french situation. Some laws are just plain unrealistic and make no sense. I get it, let's protect our culture but not with a dictatorship way. Teach it, make it enviable instead passing laws to force people to speak it. No one likes getting something shoved down their throat...well most of the time but that's another topic...Cheers!!
Votre commentaire est l’un des plus sages ici.
@@sachospunn3809 Merci, très apprécié!!
@@alternativebluesman 😂😂😂
Very well said.
Very well said.
Québec and other provinces have their own provincial governments that manage things like health (hospital), education, culture, industry, transportation, environement and so on... On the Federal side the government manage defence, army, environement, health (but like your FDA in the US), immigration, international relationship and so on. The CAQ is a provincial party. They won the latest election and the Quebec prime minister is Francois Legault. Québec wants to limited the non french immigration in their province but the federal open the valves in the last years. More english and non french speaking arrived in Quebec and put pressure on french language usage in the province.
After 6 months in a country, a minimum should be reached, someone who makes an effort to speak to me in my language, French, I make an effort to help him
For what it is worth, the video does make the laws sound more extreme than they actually are. Almost every job requires you to be bilingual, not just francophone. And while the law says that everyone has the right be served in French, its not actually being enforced; it's become a daily occurrence in the past few years to get serviced by people who don't know any French. In Montréal at least. I regularly have to translate for my mom since people can't offer her service in French.
its so sad watching an entire culture disappear like that
CANADIAN government has worked against the francophone interests in quebec... you just have to dig up lots of journalistic papers from 1970s to 2020s in canada to learn that (it goes as far as 1760)
One of the problem with this crisis is that on both sides there are populists and demagogues willing to use it for cheap political points, either by denying there's a crisis at all, to blaming immigrants unfairly and using it as an excuse to make their life worse.
you summed up the situation very well. as a quebecer i believe that this type of politics only increases the already tense climate regarding this issue. I note that quebec bashing has been more present for 10 years and that populism in quebec has also been more present for a few years. no one wins
@@p-omassicotte5993 Jle comprends bien parce que j'suis Québécoise aussi :p
@@praxagora3618 haha je vais pouvoir parler français alors, il ne faut pas avoir peur de l’anglais, mais il faut protéger le français
I really appreciate what you do !
It's so different from the Québec bashing that we normally see ,
We are different , We are French and all we want is to be respected!
As you can see we are a minority in North America!
We dont want to be seen as Martyres !
But we are still here wanting to survive and keep alive our heritage ,
It's in our veines ?
We will just not never comply to British rules !
In the US a lot of services are provided in English and Spanish. In Miami, you need to be bilingual (English and Spanish) to get a job. There are so many Latinos in the US but there is no official language in the US.
The official language in the US is english. That is the first time i hear that you need to know an other langage to get a job.
@louisech1963 everytime I applied for a job in Miami, it said preferences given to Spanish speaking person.
@@louisech1963 I just looked it up on our government website and USA does not have an official language. It surprised me. But each state can designate English as their official language.
NOTE QUEBECERS, "there is no official language in the US" What would you do if Canadian gov't said that? You'd try to vote to leave again? :D
I went to a Walmart in Miami around 2010 to buy a case of water, asked 3 employees where to go, and nobody knew what I was asking for. They had to walk me to the front of the store where a bilingual security guard could tell them in Spanish what I wanted. Not ideal.. quite surprising actually.. but I understood that the employees and the entire neighbourhood was Spanish speaking. And my attitude was that if I didn't like it, I could take my business elsewhere. I sure didn't think that in the land of the free, it was the government's role to put an end to that by outlawing the right to free speech. But that is exactly what my government gets away with here in Quebec. And our charter of rights and freedoms is no match for the authoritarian mindset that some of my fellow citizens have towards policing the languages used here. The courts have rubberstamped these draconian laws . 🙄
As a Franco-ontarien with a nova scotian anglo mom and northern ontario franco dad, our schools were pretty strict about speaking french in the halls. If they heard someone speaking english it was always "HEY,.. FRANÇAIS". But it really comes down to how you speak to your friends and family. The ones who really connect to that part of their heritage will keep the Franco culture alive.
For me it's going to the cottage in quebec and listening to Franco canadian musicians
As an anglophone Québecoise, born and raised, I can say it can be kinda difficult with how a lot of it is French. Don't get me wrong, I love that our culture is staying, but at the same time, I wish there'd be some better accommodations. I'm neurodivergent with learning disabilities, and I have receptive bilingualism as well. Learning French in school was extremely tough for me. Quand je te parler, mon français est cassé, mais je suis capable a parler de temps a temps. I'm very literal thinking at times too, and since I think in English, I get looks when speaking French because it takes me a while to translate in my mind sometimes, and it gets really overwhelming and overstimulating to me. This males it hard to get any medical care mental or physical health wise, as the amount of English speaking healthcare professionals is slim, and waiting times are much longer. And I can't get many physical jobs, but due to this disconnect, customer service is also very off the the table for me. Just thought I'd touch on this. Have an amazing day, everyone! Bonne journée, tout le monde!
Bonjour hi! Honêtement, je sens la même; they really like to make the french language lessons extremely unintuitive
You CAN get around in Qc with english only. Most people in qc know basic english (a lot more than the rest of canada with french). We are much more exposed to english in general than canada with french.
We know the traveling basic like "bathroom, restrooms, straight, left, right, stop, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10", etc. We need to learn some english of we wanna travel, almost any of us can help you get around.
A lot of people here are bilingual.
Nice video Tyler. To reassure you, if you want to visit Quebec you won't have problem to be served in english because english is mandatory in french-school. The people who can't speak at all are few unless they are refugies from non-anglophone or francophone countries. I'm not saying that most of us are perfectly bilingual, but the younger generations tends to be more "bilingual". You will always find someone who can at least speak basic english. But the revese is not true. Last summer I went to the "blingual" province of New Brunswick, in the North, no problem to be served in french. but in Moncton's McDonald's they had to find an employee that spoke french. I mean Moncton is suppose to have huge french speaker population. Maybe it was just a bad day, the girl looked like a Pakistani so I had to speak english until somebody came to her help. I know it's not her fault. But I didn't expect that in Moncton. In Toronto or Vancouver I wouldn't even tried to speak french.
You should also know that the tuition fees in Quebec Colleges and Universities are the lowest of all North-America, so that is attracting a lot of people from outside Quebec. McGill University is famous and is more affordable then any Universities in Ontario. A lot of wealthy students from India or China comes to study there and they don't speak french. So while they live in Montreal, they also need to work part time (logical), then they can't even serve the native french speakers in their own town.... requiring them to speak french isn't a bad thing because it's our taxes that make it possible to Universities like McGill to have such low tuition fees. The CAQ tried to raise the tuition fees for non-Quebeckers and non-Canadians but it meet huge resistance, even with that raise it would still be the cheapest University of that rank in North-America...
I think the video you watched did not present you with all the facts. They talk about the 1774 Quebec Act, but forget to mention that french was forbidden during the Royal Proclamation of 1763, that if you wanted a job at colonial administration you had renonce to catholicism. The so called Quebec ACT was followed by the constituional act of 1791 that created Upper-Canada for the american loyalists and british immigrants. Of course they forbid french there , even if you had many famillies living there for generations . After the rebellions of 1837-38 french was still forbidden inside the "United-Canada" in 1841. Our ancestors had to fight back politically this time to the right of speaking french in the Assambly. When Canada was created in 1867, only the province of Quebec was "Bilingual" and it stayed that ways until the creation of Manitoba in 1870, it was promise as a new bilingual province, but the authorities there abused their power and made sure that the metis(half-eruoprean/ half native americans)) community that was mostly french-speaking at the time had to move away or assimilate. So now only 3% of Manitobans speaks french. With the example of Manitoba, Missouri, Minnesota, Louisiana and the the north of Vermont, New-Hampshire and Maine the people of Quebec said it was enough. We are no more "bilingual" we are the only part of North-America that didn't forbid the use of french in school in the 1920s. We never made laws to forbid english teaching in our schools.
We don't ask to tourists to speak french, but if you plan to live in Quebec, yes, it's a good idea to learn french. We just want to preserve our culture, and language. Immigrants that want to live with us need to understand that Quebec isn't like the rest of Canada. English is a foreign language in Quebec. If you want to live in Austria, well you better learn german to interact with the austrians. It's the same for Quebec, except we gave free lessons to learn the language.I don't know if the Austrian fovernment is giving free german lessons.
For the federal government, Justin's father (Pierre Eliot-Trudeau) made it a bilngual institution, so you can either use french or english in the Canadian parliament. But before the 1960s it was mostly in english.
My parents said that the province before the Quiet Revolution was quite different from now. Before all the signs and publicities outside were only in english, everywhere in the province even in place with no english speakers. I bet most of the packaging was only in english too unlike now, the packages are bilingual everywhere in Canada. So I guess you would not have seen much difference as it is in the USA now. The catholic church made it sure that the quebeckers remain analphabet and uneducated to keep a grip on them. So that's why all religions are really suspect for most quebecois. That's why the future of the catholic church only depend on the immigrants now because the younger generation don't gives a shit about religions (Exception from those of different religious communities).
Where I live in BC we have several French immersion schools - doesn't help QC, but ensures more French speakers. The greater loss in Canada is the loss of Indigenous languages, many of which are extinct or dying out, but there's some push to ensure those languages can survive.
I wasnt aware of that you have french in BC
@@Evilslayer73 It's not the main language in BC, but certainly fed govt services are available in French
@@Evilslayer73 Actually, there are French communities in each province. A Quebec comedian, Louis-José Houde, did a Canadian tour... He had an actual francophone audience everywhere he went, including PEI. (Ok, they were like 15 people there, but that's still something).
@@MichaelYoder-e8g There is a French-language school board in British Columbia. There are approximately 75,000 francophones but more than 300,000 who have a knowledge of both official languages.
Among the provinces, Quebec had the highest number of First Nations people who could speak an Aboriginal language (33,590) in 2021. Nationally, Quebec had just under 1 in 10 First Nations members in 2021, but the province was home to 18.3% of First Nations members who could speak an Aboriginal language.
@@jacquesnadon1865 thanks for that, but it doesn't mean that Indigeous languages aren't threatened.
The only officially bilingual province or territory in all of Canada, is New Brunswick. Period. Fun Fact. French is mandated in public schools across Canada. Yup. Bilingual testing is manatory in gov't jobs. No other language though. Being french speaking to get gov't jobs is then.... an advantage over 88% of Canadians.... n'est pas.
And that's why French speaking public servants in the federal government are being forced to speak in English... Bilingualism in Canada is a joke, and the report of the Commissioner of Official Languages has demonstrated it each year for 54 years now...
French is not mandated in public school across Canada. In the western provinces, French is no longer mandatory. In addition, there are now bilingual immersion or education programs in other languages such as German, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian and Arabic. In B.C., if the community wants Portuguese as a second language...there will be no French teaching.
New Brunswick may be the only officially bilingual province, but French and English are also the official languages of Manitoba and all three territories. In addition, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories recognize some Indigenous languages as official.
@@claude9560 and most bilingual people have French as their first language..
Funny thing is this American shows appreciation for Quebec's language preservation efforts, in spite of the fact the video he comments on reproduces a lot the typical paranoid anti-Quebec discourse of Anglo-Canadian media.
i am typical and average french canadian from québec, me here to react to your video's ;) it's true french in north america is just slowly dying. french culture need laws to preserve are right to live in french here in north america. but it a time question, french is not the language of futur. i am happy to work in french, but the reality is i ave to speak in english to be fully understand everyday.
Il faut pas perdre espoir, si on prend les bonnes décisions (genre devenir un pays indépendant, bien gérer notre immigration et continuer à faire la promotion du français) on peut très bien rester une nation francophone à long terme.
D'accord, mais, il y a quelque chose de tellement triste dans ton commentaire. Tu conçois et acceptes parfaitement que ta culture soit condamnée à mourir de toute façon... Peut-être que tes petits-enfants vont te demander de dire des mots en français et trouver ça très amusant. Tu feras donc partie du folklore...
@@Imsemble vous n'allez pas devenir un pays indépendant, arrête de déconner