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limoric Offline
#1 Posted: Thu, May 27 2004, 9:09 PM EST
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DMV Quote,

"it's bankrupting the province of Quebec! The savings in printing costs alone is staggering!"

It's stupid unrehearsed comments like this that make Canadians think, Americans live in a bubble. I know that stereotype isn't true for all of you.

Sorry, while I agree with assimilation, I have to correct your perception of Multiculturalism in Quebec.

First there are 2 official languages in Canada, French and English. Everything pertaining to the Federal Government in any province has to have both languages on signs.

Second, Quebec is considered a Distinct Society in the Canadian Constitution. Almost all the signage in Quebec is in French, because 93% of the province speaks French. The only signage that has to have English is Federal stuff like Airports and Federal Government buildings.

Third, Quebec outside of Canada is the 13th largest economy in the world. It's not going broke anytime soon. Infect it's booming. The only time the province had a rough time was during the 80's when Quebec received recognition in the Canadian constitution, which scared some big American/Canadian business headquarters to Toronto. Since then Quebec has been booming. When you consider that French is the second most spoken language in the world and Quebec is the second largest French region in the world. It doesn't take a scientist to realize the trade potential. International Business are now choosing Montreal over Toronto and even New York, California, Florida, Texas, etc.

Lastly, I'm bilingual; I speak the 2 official languages. 40% of Canadian speak French and it's growing very fast west of Quebec. For good reason, a Canadian Graduate is more likely to land an international job than any other nation in the world.

Politicians in Canada aren't popular if they don't embrace multiculturalism. I suppose the Bilingual Spanish in America could only wish for the same thing.

So I'm not saying the foreign speakers should not learn English. Immigrant in Canada often learn both languages. Just setting you all straight.

Hopefully comments about any topic will be better researched before you try to form others opinions
limoric Offline
#2 Posted: Thu, May 27 2004, 9:13 PM EST
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Posts: 623
unrehearsed

Damn spell check, I ment Unresearched

Oh and I ment McDonalds. C-bid should give you a 10 min edit option.
sketcha Offline
#3 Posted: Fri, May 28 2004, 8:45 AM EST
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Spell check wouldn't've helpled, Lim. You spelled unrehearsed right.
xibbumbero Offline
#4 Posted: Fri, May 28 2004, 11:00 AM EST
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No intiendo lo que dices. X
MACS Offline
#5 Posted: Sat, May 29 2004, 9:01 AM EST
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"Lastly, I'm bilingual; I speak the 2 official languages. 40% of Canadian speak French and it's growing very fast west of Quebec. For good reason, a Canadian Graduate is more likely to land an international job than any other nation in the world."

If the economy is so good... why do you gotta go get a job in another country?

I am just asking a question. I honestly don't know a thing about Canada, outside of the fact that your cigars are way too expensive.
limoric Offline
#6 Posted: Sat, May 29 2004, 11:27 AM EST
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If an International co. want's to hire me for twice the pay, why not? Plus the experience. Also we export 70% of our produced goods, so naturally a percentage of Canadians would work abroad.

Our unemployment rate is 1% higher than the US.

Last year Canada had the best economy of the G8. I believe this year we are expected to be 2nd to Japan.

This doesn't exactly have anything to do with bilingualism. It just works for us.

If you look at Belgium or Switzerland, just about everyone there speaks the official languages. French and Dutch for Belgium and French, German and Italian for Switzerland.

My point is that they're not going broke either, because of multiple language signs. That's all.

Of course if you move to Belgium from Japan. That country would expect you to assimilate no different than Canada or the US. And likely you would learn more than one language. I doubt anyone would complain about the extra signs and the extra effort to assimilate to a multicultual land.

Of coure my main point was correcting the dumb assumption that Quebec was going broke because they have bilingual signs. In fact, New Brunswick, Ontario and Manatoba have more bilingual sign, as most people in Quebec speak french.

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