Quebec Anglo groups react to $603M French-language investment
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2024
- “We’re disappointed to see that the English-speaking community was not part of the solution,” said Sylvia Martin-Laforge, Director General for QCGN about Quebec’s $603M to protect the French language. Brittany Henriques reports.
603M can go a long way to help hospitals, homelessness, and the overall infrastructure of the province. This is a TOTAL waste of money .
That’s what the Québécois voted for
I no longer speak Saxon or Old Norse. My neighbors don't require that we set aside a hundred million bucks so they can continue to be assured that Greek will be part of the court system and so that there is no drop in the number of Greek-Canadians whose children and grand-children will speak Greek. French was the main language of one group of Canadians who became Canada in 1867. It is not a license to remain a source of special status for all eternity. Language is a tool for living. That's all it is.
Agreed 100%
Crumbling infrastructure, failing healthcare system, education system in decline, and this is where our money goes.
This and Ukraine
@@adamgreen5680 Quebec is not in Ukraine. Quebec is inward looking Nationalist.
603 million wasted on a useless cause
Well, well, someone doesn`t like the French language. Quite virulent.
@@paulcarfantan6688 Maybe he or she loves french but knows it's useless to try to force people to speak it when they don't or won't
@@geoplanetaire Yeah, no kidding. But if you`re French and you hate your own language, wouldn`t you find that strange ? I would. To each their own...I know some people enjoy certain aspects of self-hatred, but I don`t. Live and let live.
If Quebec doesn't want me an English speaking Canadian to have my language rights in their province. Fine with me ... I won't be spending another dime in that Province. Now if I can get the Federal government to stop transferring my tax dollars to them, all will be good.
ask your federal government to stop genociding us with mass immigration at the same time, please.
As an english speaking canadian, you have your all your language rights. That was never an issue and stop acting like you have rights that you don't have. Also, YES PLEASE STOP TRANSFERRING US MONEY. We'll stop paying federal taxes, which will prove once and for all that Quebec does not need Canada for it's economical survival and we'll likely be able to separate quickly.
@@loup-deauget lost
@@ferntom6092 I think the feeling`s mutual.
@loup-deau you should separate your head from your as s
Don’t tell people what to speak in private.
It's not just about private in public areas we hear a bunch of different languages in Montreal when we should only be hearing French in Public period. If you want to speak another language go back to your country we don't want you.
What a colossal waste of money. This country needs housing and education more than to care about what language is being spoken. Completely ridiculous priorities.
Canada, with 19,373,330 Canadians, or 54.3% are followers of christ. And christ says to help each other but as you can see theres no unity
How do you feel about the billions going to Ukraine?
@@adamgreen5680just as bad
I disagree. Canada needs more French classes and enforcement
@@resiregwhy 😂
In Canada approximately 22.8% of the population speak French as their first language, in the USA about 0.06%. Therefore, for any young person venturing beyond the province of Quebec, speaking English is essential. To deny French children from learning to speak English is very limiting for their growth, education & potential. Only 71.2% of quebecers are first language francophones.
I think that number is lower tbh, the French language is dying and there’s nothing they can do about it, regardless of how much money you have.
Are you heard of something called Europe?
And also, french children learn english from grade 2. By the time a person having done all of their education gets their CEGEP diploma (which is the last level where there are obligatory english courses), they'll at minimum be able to speak english just fine 90% of the time.
@@Lizzbird_ Why is it dying ?
@@paulcarfantan6688Imigration and the lack or care.
@@petegrizwald2666 Not really. Most of the immigrants come from the Maghreb, Haiti, and Sub-Saharan countries where they already speak French. Now for the French Quebecers "de souche" , they do care very much. You`re misinformed.
They don't like our language but sure like our subsidy payments.
Food and housing are CANADIAN priority? ❤
Wonder how many MRi, x ray, ultrasound, operating rooms, doctor and nursing school rooms, or ER rooms could be built with that instead of telling people to speak more French..
Politicians should pay
What a waste of tax dollars.
Legault must go!
wow....rising food and rent costs and people struggling finding jobs and these muppets want to spend all this money.
Im all for French language...but this is just wasteful use of money.
Total waste of money. What about hospitals , schools and infrastructures!!!!
So we have a housing crisis going on in quebec, but atleast they will say BONJOUR in the stores.
Look at the priorities of this government. This is open discrimination towards citizens who speak another language. They pay equal taxes.
And this is why i left Quebec
Are franco quebecois happy about this? Quebec has the worst doctor shortage in the country, 1 in 3 quebecers don't have a doctor, me included. Its such a waste of money.
I would rather see more doctors. It also sucks to drive by the Hull Hospital to go the Civic in Ottawa so I won't risk dying in the waiting room. Although I've lived most of my life in Ontario, I shouldn't be their problem now.
Wacko money.
Careful, the Speaker of Parliament is going to expel you, lol.
If the language use goes down, it’s because people don’t want to use it, simple as that. Don’t use equity mandates to force it on those that don’t want it.
The latest grift it's insane
...because there are no other problems like for instance lack of medical care in QC...People are going to speak french in french speaking homes they are not going all of the sudden switch to english and vice versa no matter what so what are you really planing to do with the money?
Language is used to isolate you.
You got it! The more French is emphasized as the only language there should be, the more francophone Quebecers are stuck in Quebec at the mercy of these politicians.
@catherinewilson1079 Funny how they manage to imbue the population with a sense of pride about it. The closest thing I've seen lately, looking similar, is the 1970-80 Arab Nationalism. Ironically, they'd probably hate my comparison.
@@catherinewilson1079 French is not the only language in Quebec, just the primary one. See the difference ?
@@paulcarfantan6688 No.
@@catherinewilson1079
Fausse nouvelle la Karen
Yes all the Arab ppl in Quebec are gonna speak French in their households 😂😂
Uh... There's plenty of exemples of arab countries where french is widely used. I don't think arab people are the main concern of the government.
The SPANISH FROM SOUTH AMERICA CENTRAL AMERICA AND CHINESE WILL ALSO. Oh all the AFRICANS WILL ALSO SPEAK FRENCH AT HOME. ?????????????????????????????
I used to live in Quebec for over 20 years. It is not protection of French language, but protection of White Quebec identity. Honestly, it is the most racist province in Canada
Yes.... so racist.....welcoming vast numbers of Haitians, Africans, Hispanics, Jamaicans, Arabs, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodians. Does that sound racist you ignoramus ?
Agreed. I'm from Quebec but my mom was born in France. I went to elementary school in St-Chrysotôme and I was the only one with an English(irish) last name. Not to mention that there were no other ethnicities in that town at the time (90's) I was constantly teased and still to this day living in Montreal I'm told that I'm more"english" by Quebeckers whatever that means. I'm perfectly bilingual with no accent. and I'm currently in the process of learning Spanish. A lot of Quebekers are idiots and bigots.
@@feliciafitzpatrick5928
Vraiment n'importe quoi ton commentaire Karen
You misspelled Alberta
Whatever dude...reply in english next time@nicolasg.514
Only in Quebec would they think this is money well spent😂
It's coming to every province via indigenous language revitalization fkn joke
so sad if only learning new language is easy, unfortunately average people like me isnt easy and my priority is to build a safer financial stability on my part so i cant afford learning french while working full time. i have no choice but to leave quebec if only they can allow english as the second language but idk why its like christians vs muslim on that notion that the latter really wants to be dominant to the other.
People will communicate in which ever way it makes their lives easy. You can’t force people to speak any language not just French. Unfortunately all of this money goes back in the pockets of the politicians. I much rather see this amount go towards making living more affordable in Quebec. We pay some of the highest taxes and interest rates.
Embezzlement!!!
This seems similar to a decline of english in the rest of Canada.
@peterturner6069
Touché.
The language police making sure they have their salaries for the next year or so
Like there isn’t more pressing issues in Canada…. 🙄
This is the same province where you could find Brian Mulroney's nose during the Meech Lake fiasco. He almost got away with permanently enshrining such treatment by giving Quebec distinct society status in perpetuity. But I guess he always was in reality the PM for Quebec, not the PM of Canada.
Well, English-speaking communities, this is how state racism tastes like. Hopefully we can come up with a better 'Charter of Rights' that can protect us all.
I don’t understand what you are saying
or just move to another of the 12 provinces/territories and leave us alone. Don't worry, we will be fine without you
"English" is not a race. Also, you have all of your rights, you can't just decide like that "Oh I want more rights". That's just your colonial biases that expect that you shouldn't accomodate, we should.
@@Alex-qk1rf Or even easier, you move to another comment if you don't like mine!
@@loup-deau You have no clue where I'm coming from or what I'm talking about.
Reshape Quebec and give Ontario, New Brunswick and Labrador new land !!
Quebec separated decades ago by small incremental steps to the point they only participate in the transfer payments.
Quebecistan came up with law 101... that still wasn't intrusive enough.
More studies and survey must do and check the last 25 years of how many mixed marriages are are in Quebec like French no longer marry French but other nationalities so their is a second language spoken at home, simple. Legault never seen this coming that the French language is no longer needed in Quebec homes. Stop dividing Quebecers in a Canadian province with Canadian dollars 💵 simple… Legault is spending our money for his pleasures 😢
Quebec took in over 50% of the immigrants in Canada. They will have people from countries that speak English . This is so disgusting I want to leave this province . I’ve been going through this English-French debate in Quebec since I was a teenager and moved out of Quebec. I moved back for my mom but cut off all attachment from it .
Same sh*t. Different day.
Can Chinese and Punjabi have similar status in BC?
Could they give me free school to speak French?
There are programs for that.
Ridiculous
I can see why the country’s productivity level has reached crisis.
And this is why provinces should no longer send money to Ottawa, his is what happens with taxpayer money from other provinces, it is given to Quebec for bs like this
This is CANADA 🍁 we speak English
Canada is bilingual. Not saying this is the best use of money.
Pierre Trudeau imposed bilingualism the people were never asked if they wanted it same with multiculturalism, LGBTQ stuff etc cause the govt already knows what the answer will be
We speak many languages
@@greeneyeswideopen774 and we shouldn't,homogenous countries that only speak one language are the most harmonious
Uhhh no. We are a bilingual country. You don't sound like a true Canadian. We have always been this way.
That’s why I boycott companies based in Quebec, their policies are outrageous.
You want to hear a good one? A quebec based company in Ahuntsic actually makes the BEST ROADS for winter/all weather countries/cities and exports the technology and work to places like Norway, finland, greenland, etc.
Quebec doesn’t work with them. That’s one example but it’s kind of a crazy one considering 600M that isn’t in road infrastructure and bridge safety. Not including the state of hospital care here lol.
BUT, this video is about language and this is a tad off topic.
You guys don't even speak French that anywhere else in the world recognizes. If people are naturally moving to English then keep your culture and let the people live the way they want
We do? We just have regionalisms, we're kinda like Australia in that sense. Also, the culture is in french, we can't protect the culture without protecting the language. Oh and people are allowed to live how they want, the only place where french is forced is work.
Hypocrisy just listen to their radio stations
As long as it's 100% funded by Quebec than have at her. And it doesn't make a difference to transfer payments.
That $600 Million comes from Federal transfer payments so its actually the rest of Canada paying for it.
Fausse nouvelle Karen
Where's that money going exactly
Most of it is going to the monitoring and enforcing of the absolutely ridiculous language laws. A tiny fraction of it is allocated to 'increasing the French cultural offering'. So basically all the money to bullying everyone into slang French and almost none of it to actually making it more appealing and enjoyable to learn.
What a waste of Alberta equalization money.
English is from French. Its 60 percent French. The truth. French is no way dying.
Fausse nouvelle la Karen, va t'instruire.
Non à l'ignorance
All good things come to an end
I'm sure 600$ per immigrant we are forced receive is going to go a long way. Go ahead century initiative woo hoo.
are anglos second class citizens in this country?
Est-ce que les francophones sont des citoyens de 2e classe dans ce pays ?
Quebec is more than 1 language
Actually it isn't. Feel free to leave, we Quebecers won't miss you
Of course it is, but these arrogant people even tell autochthons and inuits to get out . That’s how entitled and arrogant they are.
@@Alex-qk1rf arabs family in Quebec have 5 or more kids. Meanwhile, a broken french speaking irish québécois has 2 dads or just 1 or 2 kids. Looks like Islam is on a mission here
@Alex-qk1rf we won the war your lucky we let you stay frogg
@@Alex-qk1rf Quebecers has to follow confederation rules.
PAID FOR BY TAX TRANSFERS FROM OTHER PROVINCES.
Slightly. We recieved 13 billions and paid 6 billions, so we really only recieved 7 billions, which is 1.5% of our GDP. So you paid for 11 millions of the program. Uh, thanks I guess. We could have easily afforded thar ourselves but thanks for the change.
@@loup-deau give the 7Bn back then pls. Thanks
@@aq7705 It's not our fault the federal government gives us that money. What do you want us to actually do?
@@aq7705
Tu ne comprends aucunement comment la péréquation fonctionne 🤣🤣🤣
will I get free French classes in Toronto?
603 MILLION $ to save FRENCH ????????? IF YOU NEED THAT MUCH DOES IT DISERVE TO BE SAVED.OUT OF CURIOSITY WHAT MEASURES DO THEY INTEND TO DO.. AT HOME WE SPEAK WHAT WE WANT.
A big waste of money, decline and go away.
They use subsidies from English Canada to promote a language few people in the world want, this is typical of French people worldwide.
Serais-tu francophobe ?
Trying to force this upon people makes them do it less.. just because these politicians personally think the stats aren’t good enough doesn’t mean there losing there culture identity. Hospitals, homelessness, food programs could use that money for better.
In Sask there was a time that 5 small towns in a row spoke Icelandic, and another community of5 small towns spoke Ukraine and not 1 of them didn't get to know both and English .we didnt try to make everyone else in Sask follow .get over yourselves already
Quebecois govt is insane. Cheaper if we pay the Francophones to return to France
😂
how can we go about doing that? that's a brillant idea, im willing to help.
@@mist3rpink838 Not possible. The rulers of Canada will allow Qc to do what it wants. Effed up place
@@mist3rpink838
Et pourquoi pas te déporter à la place🤔
@@mist3rpink838
Et pourquoi te déporter à la place, petite Karen...
1603. It’s now 2024. C’mon, get it together. It’s been over 400 years. How long do you want us to keep paying?
Actually, 1763 with the french and indian war. Also, english people exploited french Canadians as cheap labor and lower class citizens until the quiet revolution in the 60's.
Vraiment n'importe quoi ce que tu affirmes 🤦♂️
if people want to speak english so be it. ppl want jobs, better roads, buses, trains, schooling etc...come on.
Population by mother tongue, Canada
Mother tongue Percentage
French 20.2%
English 56.6%
Other 23.2%
Et après la Karen, quel est votre point?
La majorité (plus de 77%) du Québec à le français comme langue maternelle
En réalité.
@@nicolasg.514
I think you misunderstood my comment.
20% nationally is very concerning and 23% having a mother tongue other than English or French should be a big alarm bell.
What is causing the decline of the French language and culture in Quebec and across the country?
The answer is immigration without integration - it’s too much, too fast - and it’s wreaking havoc.
Justin, a French Quebecer and WEF member, is pushing all these mass immigration policies.
Throwing money at this issue, without addressing the route cause, is not going to fix it.
At least 400 million of those dollars will come from Alberta.
Fausse nouvelle la Karen national 🤣
I would rather that money went to something less frivolous and helped all Canadians 😢
This is federal welfare for a non-autonomous province. So much free money for the superficial needs against the best interests of the entire province.
What a waste of money . Ridiculous that's hush money
Let’s face it the world is all speaking English as first or second languages
Not fun when the shoe is on the other foot, huh?
You are Canadian not French speak English stop whining and stop thinking your better then the rest of Canada
Spend that money on arresting and prosecuting the 9 murders of Nicous D'andre Spring.
As a Quebecer, I can say I am happy to live in Ontario
My family came from France in the 1700's, stopped speaking French when they got off the boat.
Same here. Left the Catholic Church and spoke only English. . No priests in our family.
@lawrenceveinotte
Your family stopped speaking French as soon as you got off the boat, because the Veinots were imported into NS by BRITISH Protestant Governor Cornwallis. The Veinots were Protestant (French Huguenots).
Your family arrived a couple of years before the British rounded up all the Catholic Acadians in 1755.
Cornwallis persecuted them because they were French Catholics who wished to remain neutral. They also owned large amounts of land that Cornwallis and his cronies wanted for themselves.
French speaking Acadians had all their lands and livestock stolen from them. Women and children were separated from the men, forced onto British ships and sent into exile. Many died at sea or from exposure and famine in British colonies or sold into slavery.
The French Acadian Expulsion was your family’s gain, Mr. Veinotte.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise why the French language (or anything French for that matter) wouldn’t interest you.
@@sharonperry5213
You’ll wish you still had your Catholic Church in a couple of decades, when Islam becomes the predominant religion in Canada.
@@sharonperry5213
Encore dans les commentaires xénophobe la Karen
Unbelievable :(
Stopping the decline of french is like trying to stop the force of gravity - futile.
Who's getting the bill for that,...............canada, no doubt.
Fascists. Quebec's identity.
franco philes
That's not fascism. There's no dictatorship and no militarism. It's just a right wing mesure you're against.
Take your meds, quickly, you`re losing it !
@@paulcarfantan6688 People say that to you a lot, I'm guessing.
@@MrJimmysez And your guess would be completely wrong because I don`t write crazy comments like you do. Huge difference. I hope you can understand the difference but then again you sound somewhat extreme, so....
Stop trying to force people to speak your language 😂 thank God I don't live in Quebec . I speak english just fine.
The move out of Canada. It is Canada's second language.
@@whatinthefuckisgoingon you move out of Canada. Quebec has been wanting to be it's own separate country for a long time. Stay there
@@Faize Quebec wanted to be it's own country because Trudeau's daddy was running the show. Funny how that's an occurring thing.
French has always been Canada's second language and has been taught in public and private schools throughout Canada.
Not just Quebec.
I'm not from Quebec.
@@whatinthefuckisgoingon this isn't a topic in other countries why do you think it's one in canada and people legit protest it" land of the free" I speak whatever language I want. English is the only universal language here . Don't Like it leave
@@Faize It sn't a topic in other countries because their language isn't being wiped from their heritage, but great unrelated comeback.
Quebec is not even a french word 😂. Montreal as well is not a french word.
Montréal comes from Mont-Royal, which is, you guessed it, a french word. Also, it was called Ville Marie at first, also a french word.
@@loup-deau yes, the classic brainwashing education of Quebec. Like the English wealthy settlers never existed which took over the "Royal Mont". Also what has been happening to the English names area in Montreal? Like example "Boulevard Dorchester"
@@loup-deau yes, the classic French system at school making people forget like English never existed when the English speakers were mostly living at "Royal Mont". What happened to the Boulevard Dorchester? Why are English history being erased?
@@bling0rb007 Royal Mont is literally just an english deformation of Mont Royal. Also, Guy Carleton wasn't really important to Quebec in comparison to René Lévesque, even if I agree that they could have chosen a better street to rename.
@@loup-deau what's wrong with Royal Mont? Guy was not a part of Quebec's history? Why are the schools teaching French from France instead of Quebec French (Quebecois)? Why does the native language and the English history are being erased? Why doesn't Quebec have the freedom of competitive private schools? For a moment, it sounded more like China when it comes to language restrictions.
Another total waste of money no fking wonder this country in trouble with spending stupidity like this
QC didn’t sign on the 1982 constitution so imo, they shouldn’t get anything from the rest of Canada, not even a seat in parliament, they don’t want to sign on then get out.
You know the charter was signed in Québec's back, right ? I wouldn't expect angloids to know such a detail.
@@Cellulosaurus as usual nothing the French say makes sense.
@@bluethunder1951 Reading comprehension is hard when your only language is english.
@@Cellulosaurus okay, what is “Quebec’s back” ?
Quebec, why don't you just leave Canadian confederation. You have discriminated against anglophones and other minorities for decades. A lot of us want you gone and take Trudeau with you.
Veux-tu qu'on parle de la discrimination envers les francophones et autres minorités que le ROC a fait et continue de faire et de depuis plus de 100 ans ?
Elon Musk - “The Woke Mind Virus is Communism Rebranded”.
WACKY WOKE!
French speaking Quebecers had better learn English if they want to do buisness in the U S and Britain and English Canada
yeah exactly business language is english not french.
Car tu crois que les francophones Québécois ne parle pas anglais aussi Karen?
I remember when Canada was mostly white. Those were the good days.
1. Aboriginals
2. French Canadians
3. Liberals
The three biggest wastes of money in Canada
Kebekor goovernment arrogantly wasting big money one dollars at a times
what a waste of hard earned taxpayer money.
Its crazy that theyll try to control people like this when it has nothing to do with public safety. Trudeaus from there though so maybe theres a connection
Trudeau and Legault are about as politically inverted as possible. The CAQ is basically a french nationalist CPC.
Can quebec just separate already? Let them be their own province all by themselves that can be their own country
And while they are at it, they should also take their provincial debts and deficits with them.
Yes please.
@@drydz8670Quebec has one of the best economical status in Canada. It's still one of the cheapest places to live in and our debt is a regular level, unlike Ontario and atlantic liberals (that québécois actively reject by vote BQ).
@@loup-deaubecause the government is sending more money to Quebec, and other states suffer.
@@loup-deauyeah because they’re getting billions of subsidies from the government that aren’t available to other provinces. Catering to Quebec because they’re a distinct society…. One huge joke. Quebec is one huge joke.
JF Roberge has always been a separatist and, more specifically, anti-English. Point finale.
Come on Quebecker , secede once and for all, what are you waiting for.
French is who we are in Quebec. So much so that we need 600 million dollars to make sure it stays that way. 🤡