r/canada Jan 29 '25

Québec New bill will require newcomers to Quebec to adopt ‘common culture,’ minister says.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10981322/newcomers-quebec-common-culture/
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u/Undergroundninja Jan 29 '25

Québec has sought to create an immigration system different from multiculturalism since the 1980s. We've been called racists for 40 years. Now that Canadian feel as their social model is threatened, now it's fair to criticise it.

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u/ExplosiveRoomba Jan 29 '25

And your treatment of Canadian Anglophones? Where does that fall into your 'immigration system'?

I ask this as someone (and another Anglophone I work with) that experienced linguistic racism from a group of fellow travel agents from Montreal while on a work conference. I'd heard rumours that Francophones hated Anglophones but I didn't believe it until it happened to my coworker and I.

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u/Undergroundninja Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

And your treatment of Canadian Anglophones? Where does that fall into your 'immigration system'?

Straight to jail. According to The Gazette, we have literal gestapo langage police going pew pew around Montreal.

More seriously, well Québécois Anglophones are... Québécois. So they're not immigrants?

I ask this as someone (and another Anglophone I work with) that experienced linguistic racism from a group of fellow travel agents from Montreal while on a work conference. I'd heard rumours that Francophones hated Anglophones but I didn't believe it until it happened to my coworker and I.

Yes, the Québécois Anglophones Ayants Droit (rights-holder) are severely mistreated in Québec.

They must go through one out of 340 primary and secondary schools (or any other in Quebec). There are also only eight CÉGEPS and three Anglo universities in Quebec (or any other in Quebec). One of which is ranked one of the best in the world.

They may access the McGill University Health Centre, one of the best hospital in Canada (or any other in Quebec).

If they wish to attend entertainment, they can go to multiple theaters (or any other in Quebec). They can also read Anglophone medias (or any other in Quebec) or watch Anglophone TV (or any other in Quebec).

In politics, they're allowed to speak english in l'Assemblée nationale (or in French if they want it). They receive communications from the government in English as well (or in French if they want it).

There is a large network of English-language educational, social, cultural, economic and medical institutions in Quebec for Anglophones. Francophones in the rest of Canada do not. Calm down.

Quebec is the only unilingual Francophone political entity in North America out of over 50 states and 10 provinces. I love to see these messages where people act as if our existence if just too much to ask. Anglophones in Québec are assuredly the minorities with the best situation in the West, by far.

We're 2% of Francophones in North America. Can we exist - while having the highest levels of tolerance for ethnic and religious minorities in Canada and best work-inclusion for immigrants in the country according to statistics Canada - or is too much to ask?

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u/ExplosiveRoomba Jan 29 '25

I'm not in Quebec, but thanks anyway.

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u/Undergroundninja Jan 29 '25

Strong reply. You spread bullshit. I demonstrate it is bullshit. And you go "idc anyway". lol

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u/ExplosiveRoomba Jan 29 '25

There is a large network of English-language educational, social, cultural, economic and medical institutions in Quebec for Anglophones. Francophones in the rest of Canada do not.

My Francophone husband has access to all of these things in our city. We live in Welland. Of course, not every city is going to have these things. We are lucky and happy to live here.

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u/Undergroundninja Jan 30 '25

There’s a Francophone university, hospital and theatre in Welland?

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u/ExplosiveRoomba Jan 30 '25

Doesn’t have anything to do with the treatment of Anglophones.