We should all speak more French out of patriotism to show that we aren’t Americans?
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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Oui oui! Je suis an ananas!!
Honhonhon j’aime manger les ananas, jaime tous les fruits
Bravo ! Allons regarder ensemble Psych en français (^_^)
Oui oui, tu es un ananas!
No joke but I'm actually starting to learn it after half a decade of saying maybe next year
Lâche pas, ça vaut la peine!
Moi aussi! Je suis a 245 jours jusqu’a present.
Osti de tabarnak de calice!
Seriously though, this is a coincidence that he says this at the same time Carney says he wants Québec to roll back law 96.
Our French language protection laws is nobody's business but our own.
CBC's coverage says his problem isn't with the law itself:
Blanchet's criticism follows Carney's remarks Monday that a government led by him would act as an intervenor at the Supreme Court of Canada should it ever hear a challenge to Bill 96.
Carney said he would do so not because he has a problem with the legislation, but because he opposes any province's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause to pass laws.
Americans never change, huh? It's 1774 all over again (in which Americans got so salty about people speaking French that it contributed to them choosing revolution) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Act
In a recent article published in The Atlantic magazine, (American military historian Eliot) Cohen used a tongue-in-cheek approach to warn Americans against invading Canada, pointing out that previous attempts led to dismal results.
His review of American military failures starts in 1775, when U.S. troops invaded Quebec, where they distributed pamphlets — translated into French — awkwardly declaring: “You have been conquered into liberty.” The campaign ended in disastrous defeat for the American Continental Army in December 1775.
If the US wants to Conquer us into Liberty. Then I will fight for Freedom from Liberty.
LOL The American government just can't help itself, huh? Truly, the dumbest administration of all time. The Americans have successfully united Western and Eastern Canadians, something they should be very scared of since we never got along. Although the laws have been controversial, you can't say Quebec hasn't done a great job resisting Anglophone hegemony, and I suspect America will not be the exception they're hoping for.
That's it from now on the official languages of canada will be french and deep newfy
You might not be able to understand french but at least there are coursed and translation books
If there is ever an invasion we will use deep-newfie code talkers, the baymen are unintelligible except to one another
I lived there as a baby, and learned to speak there. After we moved to the US, my mother forced me into speech therapy for years.
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Tell the demented rapist and his toadies to eat shit.
CBC has English coverage, and the law is only described as a "trade irritant", not anything illegal, which is surprising given the insane claims the Trump admin likes to make:
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released its annual list of global trade barriers Tuesday, and it includes Quebec's controversial language law Bill 96 as a trade irritant between the two countries.
The law isn't new but it has provisions that kick in in June that seem to be the main issue:
The changes impact the use of French in the judicial system, health care, schools, workplaces and businesses across the provincial economy, but the issue singled out as a trade barrier by the U.S. is how it impacts trademarks and labelling.
"U.S. businesses have expressed concerns about the impact that Bill 96 will have on their federally registered trademarks for products manufactured after June 1, 2025, which is when the relevant provisions of Bill 96 enter into force," the National Trade Estimate Report said.
When the new provisions kick in this summer, trademarks displayed on a product can only appear in English if there's no French version of the trademark registered. If the trademark or label contains generic terms or descriptions that are not in French, the trademark must be changed to include a French version of those terms and descriptions.
Companies found to have violated these changes to the law can face fines of up to $90,000 per day for their third offence, while individuals can be fined up to $42,000 a day for their third offence.
See, that detail actually helps me understand why they might complain. But their reframing of the issue as 'French is an illegal barrier' will absolutely send every Canadian on the defence.
Oh ho ho..... you've pissed off Quebec now. Gods help you now USA. :p
Carney has said the same.
PP, of course, is willing to talk about it.
In that case I don't see why they'd object to it, their president seems to be all in favour of illegal trade barriers.
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Speaking your own language is an affront to American business. Better clean up your act Frenchie.