PQ would bar immigrants with fractured French from seeking election

Liberalman

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Cela devrait être adoptée par le Canada, qui est avant tout la citoyenneté canadienne est décerné à toute personne qu'il ou elle doit parler couramment l'anglais ou le français.

Le Canada devrait avoir un cours de langue financés par le gouvernement pour les personnes qui veulent devenir des citoyens aussi.

Maintenant, pour le Québec d'adopter une loi qui stipule que la langue française ne devrait pas être autorisé puisque le Canada est un pays bilingue.

Une fois que notre nouvel immigrant apprend la langue de la terre qu'ils connaissent leurs droits et soient mieux protégés contre les injustices qui sont le reste des Canadiens.
 
lone wolf

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You're in violation of the Official Languages Act. Correct that with an English translation?

If that be the case, PQ should be forced to resign en masse. Not one of them speak true Gaullic and every one of them can trace ancestral roots to another continent. Idiots! Typical Quebec "is okay for me but not for nobody else eh"

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The lighter side of the French language police...





 
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A Trudeau Liberal at that!
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What is French anyhow? In no two places where "French" is spoken is the language in common use the same thing. Parisian French isn't really heard anywhere outside lawyer's offices and high school classrooms. The majority of Québequois can't even pass a French exam.

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Go figure.

Makes me wonder how I would be affected by their new policy, if it were to ever by some fluke be adopted into law. I'm a Quebecker by birth and have a very limited knowledge of French. My wife is (was) an immigrant and has zero knowledge of French.

I guess we'd better start taking French lessons :-| ...
 
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Makes me wonder how I would be affected by their new policy, if it were to ever by some fluke be adopted into law. I'm a Quebecker by birth...
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This law would have no effect. It applies to immigrants, of which you are not.
 
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I'm curious as to what exactley are the objections to this piece of legislation.


and I agree wih Liberalman...in this instance.
 
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gerryh said:
I'm curious as to what exactley are the objections to this piece of legislation.


and I agree wih Liberalman...in this instance.
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Then perhaps the entire country should adopt this practice. I for one agree with it.

But no, the sensitive people would tear-up and whine and moan about us treading on the right's of others. Tough.

If I wanted to emigrate to say, Japan, it might be my responsibilty to learn the friggin' language. No?
 
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Locutus said:
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If I wanted to emigrate to say, Japan, it might be my responsibilty to learn the friggin' language. No?
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Not if you go there to teach English :lol:

It's the popular choice after university in my generation, go to Asia to teach English, pay off student loan debt, and see the world while you`re at it;-)
 
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lone wolf said:
No objection here ... it's just sort of ironic that the language they speak in Quebec isn't even true French.

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Sorry but that's a rather stupid comment. It's like saying Canadians don't speak true English... or that Brazilians don't speak true Portuguese...

Think about it for a second.
 
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I have to say I really wonder what the PQ is trying to accomplish... It seems to me that someone who doesn't speak a word of French would have a very hard time functioning in the world of Quebec politics anyway... Why would they even try to be election candidates...?

My guess is that nobody with its right mind would even think about being an election candidate in Quebec if they didn't know a minimum of French... Except maybe in the West of Montreal (school elections... municipal elections)

On the federal level, can you imagine someone who neither manages French or English as an election candidate? It just wouldn't work out...

But then, we did have Jean Chrétien as prime minister... What a strange country this is...
 
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Locutus said:
The Parti Québécois has tabled a bill in the legislature that would prevent immigrants who can't speak sufficient French from running in elections.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/10/19/pq-ban.html
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There are city councillors in towns within Montreal and many English school board officials who don't have a good knowledge of French (or no knowledge). I mean why do you need to know French to run for election within an English school board?

This law if it ever passes will put immgrants who are part of the English community in a bad spot. :-(
 
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s_lone said:
Sorry but that's a rather stupid comment. It's like saying Canadians don't speak true English... or that Brazilians don't speak true Portuguese...

Think about it for a second.
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I think about it every time I try to speak with a Franco Canadian in my high school French and get laughed at because I don't know the local slangs ... and that's a lot more than a second.

Wolf
 
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