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Bill 96: Group seeking injunction against Quebec's French-language law
(montreal.ctvnews.ca)
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It's not. I've had colleagues in Hungary who had not learned Hungarian in five+ years and were doing just fine
Not everyone has an ease with language, unfortunately.
You and I do, but I know francophones who are incapable of learning English no matter how hard they try, and anglophones who are incapable of learning French, or any other language for that matter.
It works out for some people, but others will never learn anything beyond their native tongue, especially if they migrate as adults.
European countries and their citizens tend to understand and speak English pretty well, with some exceptions, and most of them offer services in English upon request
I feel like you and I are on the same page, with a slight variance in opinion 😅
I respect your opinion, it's quite a common one in Quebec outside of Montreal.
What I'm understanding from your text is that anglophones who grew up in Quebec should just up and leave their home province if they don't want to, or can't, learn the French language because the language they always used and were able to converse in for their whole life is no longer acceptable, since they can essentially live anywhere else in Canada / USA.
Personally, I've always been of the opinion that Quebec should export their French to other provinces rather than turn itself into an enclave. Make the Canadian east coast French! Hell, make Vermont French! Nothing's more fun than going to Vermont or Ontario and speaking French with the locals.
We won't have the opportunity to teach people French if we ban English CEGEPs and universities because the people we could potentially be teaching French to will just go to other provinces and learn no french at all.
But I understand how you feel due to how we were treated historically in Canada, and I too feel that it's important to teach French to immigrants and kids, but I don't agree with forcing people to speak French by banning other languages. Official signs should definitely be french-only though.
An aside: France is one of the exceptions I was talking about, they don't really do English, but most of the countries around it do.
TL;DR: I don't want Quebec to be known as the province that bans languages, I want Quebec to be known as the province that spreads French far and wide.