More b.s. from French-Canada......

QUEBEC CITY - Quebec's premier may unleash the language police to crack down on the growing use of English in workplaces around the province.

A report released on Monday found English continues to gain ground in the province. Premier Jean Charest says he favours doing whatever needs to be done to promote the French language and culture.

That could include asking Quebec's language watchdog to tighten up enforcement of the rules, he said.

Under Bill 101, the controversial language law passed in the 1970s, the Office de la Langue Française, can order businesses with more than 50 employees to translate all internal correspondence into French.

"The English language has become very much – throughout the world – the language of business," Charest said.

"So the constant pressure will be there."

The report, released on Monday by the language watchdog, says the French language is in a "precarious" state in Quebec as English usage continues to expand.

It says efforts to require businesses to comply with language laws aren't halting the trend.

The report also finds that although immigrants are still more likely to learn French, English is the language of choice for more than half of all new arrivals to the province.

you want to elaborate? How are these people "insane"?

Also, in the US, the language is obviously English, but others who don't read/speak the language so well, are for the most part accomodated.

That's true, especially people from the west, who tend to make the most out of these things. Those that do go there go to Montreal and get mad when some people don't speak English. Try getting served in French in Saskatchewan or Alberta...good luck.

2) L'office de la langue francaise is a fascist branch of the Quebec provincial government that functions as a language police capable of exacting fines for the crime of communicating in English.

For those of you who are clueless about Quebec, there are a few facts you ought to be aware of, namely:
1) French language and culture is what you find in France. The gibberish spoken in Quebec is an archaic dialect which is incomprehensible to the rest of the world's francophone community and stands as an affront to all decent speakers of French everywhere.
2) L'office de la langue francaise is a fascist branch of the Quebec provincial government that functions as a language police capable of exacting fines for the crime of communicating in English.

My high school French teacher, a Scot who prided herself on her Parisian accent, said that in reality, Québecois was probably the most pure form of French, as it's been "isolated" for a few centuries. I can't remember her exact reasoning, but that's the gist.

Actually Rev there is a town in Alberta in the Peace River country that speaks predominatly french or at least it was back in the early 70s when I was working up there .

Quote: Originally Posted by Mediana

2) L'office de la langue francaise is a fascist branch of the Quebec provincial government that functions as a language police capable of exacting fines for the crime of communicating in English.

Now you are scaring me I want to visit Quebec city some day . What am reading from you is that if i get caught speaking english I can get fined ? Or is iit just in the work place.

and your point is??????

Quebec wants to preserve THEIR culture and language. NOT the culture and language of France. What is so hard to understand? This was promised AND gauranteed to them.