Wait till they learn about other languages in other countries.
They’re crushing Spanish in their own country.
The US conquered land from Mexico some centuries ago, and thus there’s a large population of monolingual Spanish speakers in the south of the country.
“wait, we have to follow laws of other countries?” that’s illegal!
Je ne peux pas parler Francais avec un peu de compétence, mais la langue des Québécois n’est pas une barrière pour les gens avec un peu de respect!
Pff. All that high school French and that’s the best I can do. Anyways, shut up, US.
C’est déjà bien! Faut pas se décourager :)
You know, I only learned the basics of English at school. I became bilingual through exposition to the language, which admittedly is far easier for English than French in my opinion, but still.
The US government doesn’t give a shit about anything except excuses for their catastrophic tariff plan. They want to highlight issues that will never be negotiable so they can justify them to Faux News and their Trumper cult. It is a classic divide an conquer technique on Canada. Further, I am sure Russia is running troll farms with misinformation on us now.
Dairy industry, VS oil and gas, VS Québécois.
Who is next?
Concede nothing to the US.
Totally agree. “Make an outrageous demand” is one of the few tools in trumps repitoire.
Even if we did somehow ascede to it, he’d just come up with something new. The point is to have something to hang over us, not to actually get the thing.
As a French French, I have the feeling Don picked the wrong fight…
Écoute mon gros gros pédophile et ses amis, tu pourrais me battre au sang que tu ne m’empêchera pas de parler ma langue. Gader vos estie de cochonneries amazon et vos films de super-héros pour idiots heureuz et enfoncez-vous les bien profondément dans le cul.
Time to learn more french.
Better off with Spanish my friend. Many more scenarios where Spanish is useful and English is unusable than with french speaking areas. I am biased though, i’ve worked for french companies and my wife natively speaks Spanish.
I don’t speak French, but I assure you I would kill and if necessary die to ensure Quebec always can. We stand together.
It’s the old “I don’t necessarily agree with what you are saying, but I would defend to the death your right to say it” ideal, and I’m 100% down for it.
That moment when Louisiana (in the U.S.) looks around and says wait, our laws are based on Napoleonic laws, we French based too right?
I mean, the Cajuns, the best part of Louisiana, are basically Quebecois.
Some would argue the Cajun are the Quebecois who were unwilling to submit to British rule.
No argument there. They stayed French much longer that way.
You don’t negotiate and speak with a kid in a sandbox having a tantrum. You educate.
Well with a child you are the kid’s source of authority, jailer, etc. if you can get Trump to view you as an authority or get him into a jail of some kind, you may have the ability to educate.
Under the current situation, I don’t think you have any power over the child.
Should counter with the USA using the imperial system.
Amazing how the US government thinks US businesses have any standing in our country, after it wiped its ass with that trade treaty that wildly favoured them.
It is fucking wild. One might say it sounds like entitlement. But surely a “self-made man” like Donald Trump knows nothing of entitlement… /s
Lol they’re trying to mess with the Québécois. Good fucking luck with that.
I’m 100% with the Quebecois, get fucked USA, you don’t have jurisdiction here and you don’t get to dictate to us.
Edit: the US lacking bilingual packaging and documentation is an illegal barrier to our trade. They don’t even have an official language, so how can vis be a barrier to them. Maybe they should learn French.
If there’s one thing the French are good at, it’s resistance
I’m pretty sure it’s one of the main reasons the right has always tried to crack jokes and minimize French influence in the U.S.
Wouldn’t want the Americana to see their cousins have big brass balls and will torch anything in their way if their ruling class fucks around too much.
But if it is the last barrier to reaching an agreement, how long will the rest of Canada support Quebec? This is being done to test our confederacy.
Edit: Not supporting Trump, just being realistic about his intentions.
Why would we ever let a foreign government choose our languages? Seems it’ll be a common issue for them.
It might be, we don’t know all the details yet (they called it an irritant) but so far all these global tariffs have disproportionally hurt Canada more than other countries. I can see the US smoothing things over with others but keeping this as a point of contention with Canada.
Well be fine seeking out new partners. America isn’t trust worthy anymore.
I agree, we’re facilitating interprovincial trade, we have many allies in a similar position with which we can strike new deals. The US is looking to cause some damage though.
We’ll never stop standing with Quebec. No foreign power is going to dictate our culture. Canada strong.
ROC opposing Québec because of language laws? That’s the exact definition of Canadian culture, our confederacy was tempered by this conflict since forever.
Once again, they are simply reinforcing Canada’s identity by their uninformed talking points.
They don’t even have an official language
They do now. Since March 1st.
Doesn’t diminish what you’ve said though.
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No, absolutely not.
Just because some asshole in a round office says something doesn’t make it true. The US has no official language.
Non, absolument pas.
Ce n’est pas parce qu’un trou du cul dans un bureau rond dit quelque chose que ça devient vrai. Les États-Unis n’ont pas de langue officielle.
TIL
And that’s officially a trade barrier to our domestic francophone population!
Nobody even noticed
A lot of people will notice when red states stop dropping other languages in schools next school year.
Americans who don’t speak English will begin to notice
FU. You want to sell your products here you package them in our languages.
I don’t know a lot about Canada but isn’t that how you piss off quebec?
It takes even less. I think they’re all but chewing their shields and loading the cow into the catapult now.
Lmao.
Dude, not even the English could keep the Quebecers from speaking French, and they tried for over 100 years after the Brits took the province in the Seven Years War.
Good luck with that one, Cheeto.
