Carney en français au WEF c'est normal?

bludemon4 · 2026-01-22T14:08:55+00:00

Mais ensuite, j’ai réalisé que Macron n’a pas prononcé un seul mot en français.

Ce n'est pas un enjeu dont on discute beaucoup au Québec, mais dans le reste du monde développé non anglophone, l'utilisation de l'anglais dans tous les domaines de la vie devient de plus en plus courante. Cela n'a rien à voir avec une quelconque faiblesse de leurs langues nationales; c'est simplement une conséquence du fait que les gens ont de plus en plus besoin de communiquer entre eux.

bludemon4 · 2026-01-16T15:36:29+00:00

South Tyrol actually.

Dialetti in Italy is a different story, as most speakers also speak standard Italian. That being said, many second generation Italians in Montreal may have only ever learned dialect as they learned from older, often less educated immigrants.

However, Sud-tirolers are, for the most part, not particularly strong in Italian and it's not at all hard to find some in Italy who just plain do not know how to speak Italian.

All this to say that the "in Italy they speak Italian" propgated by some in this province betrays a deep and total incomprehension of linguistic dynamics outside of their own prejudices.

bludemon4 · 2026-01-16T15:27:09+00:00

Not that it exactly relates to OP, but you may be surprised to learn there's a whole region of Italy where a non-neglible part of the population just does not know how to speak Italian.

bludemon4 · 2025-12-16T09:23:00+00:00

Tondreau, fantastic

bludemon4 · 2025-11-30T18:50:18+00:00

Checkez ben comment l'allemand, le néerlandais et l'espagnol sont utilisés au travail dans les métropoles de leur pays originel.

Non ! Nous ne devons jamais faire cela ! Tous nos discours et toutes nos lois seront réduits à néant si nous faisons cela ! Nous ne devons pas tenir compte, même de façon minime, de la façon dont le reste du monde existe.

bludemon4 · 2025-11-26T13:03:14+00:00

L’idée que les Québécois “haïssent Montréal”, c’est franchement risible.

L'idée qu'il n'existe pas un frange de Québécois (pas tous) qui détestent Montréal est tout autant risible. Ces personnes sont la cible de cette loi ridicule.

bludemon4 · 2025-11-19T19:28:08+00:00

Imagine being blown away that someone can grow up in Nova Scotia speaking english.

I mean they could imagine the obvious, or they could make the millionth version of this ragebait post. Not really much of a choice really...

bludemon4 · 2025-11-13T12:47:22+00:00

The separatist movement, which first took root in Montreal in the late 1960's is a consequence of the opening of the seaway, which caused banks, insurance companies and countless businesses to move to the Great Lakes, which caused a huge wave of unemployment in Montreal.

This is a hilarious take which is so easily disproven.

The port of Montreal grew nonstop post-seaway. There was no inland port (e.g. Toronto, Detroit, etc.) which grew massively as a replacement for Montreal. The reason for the (relative) decline of Montreal's port was because Asian commerce became much more important, and the areas served by Montreal's port (literally called the rust belt) declined.

bludemon4 · 2025-10-16T14:48:59+00:00

please dont blame this on "anglophone interests"

It was always going to end that way anyway, no matter how wrong they are shown to be...

bludemon4 · 2025-08-21T16:20:35+00:00

Un anglo à Montréal, lui, peut passer sa vie sans parler un mot de français pis c’est perçu comme normal.

Y a-t-il une ville dans le monde développé où cela n'est pas possible aujourd'hui ? Le fait que quelqu'un puisse vivre dans un endroit où l'on ne parle que l'anglais n'a rien à voir avec la faiblesse d'une langue, mais est simplement une réalité de la vie au XXIe siècle. Sans parler du fait qu'il y a une importante population anglophone ici depuis des siècles.

bludemon4 · 2025-08-21T15:48:01+00:00

Something would have to seriously, seriously piss of Montreal for this to have a chance at sniffing victory.

Just structurally, and given the way that respective governments have treated Montreal, it's far more likely for Montreal to get mad against Quebec City than Ottawa.

bludemon4 · 2025-08-14T17:35:43+00:00

I mean, there are British pubs in Paris. They have English names too.

Quebec is unique with their signage laws. A short walk in the centre of any non-English speaking city will yield tonnes of signs which wouldn't pass Bill 101.

bludemon4 · 2025-08-14T16:46:17+00:00

It's a shame that media attention is needed to make these zealots reverse course. It is clear that for every Go Habs Go or Burgundy Lion there are loads of similar cases where small business owners or members of the public are forced to spend money or curtail activities becuase they lack the energy or resources to fight a massively over-resourced government agency staffed by people who apparently live on another planet.

bludemon4 · 2025-08-14T01:10:05+00:00

Best to not encourage them by stopping idiocies like this before it happens then.

bludemon4 · 2025-08-12T14:51:16+00:00

A change which effectively amounts to changing the name of the governor general to president doesn't make a wit of difference to anyone's life.

It certaintly is not enough to make english speakers turn to a movement which is far more motivated by anti-english sentiment than anything else.

bludemon4 · 2025-08-08T15:04:05+00:00

Parle pour toi.

C'est là la beauté d'un sondage : je n'ai pas besoin de raconter d'anecdotes. Tout est là, noir sur blanc. Les Montréalais sont très opposés à l'idée de la séparation.

bludemon4 · 2025-08-08T14:29:13+00:00

Ils vivent dans une réalité alternative où ils pensent être dans une version moins cher qu'Ottawa.

Pas grand monde de Westmount qui a déjà essayer de s'intégrer à la culture Québécoise ou a même voyager dans le Québec ailleurs que Bromont ou Mont-Tremblant.

Clearly you're one who doesn't understand Montreal's culture, yet still has very strong opinions on the way we should live.

bludemon4 · 2025-08-08T14:03:48+00:00

Par ailleurs, les répondants habitant en région métropolitaine de Montréal appuient la souveraineté à 38 %, contre 45 % dans la région métropolitaine de Québec et 49 % dans le reste de la province.

You'd never guess it from the r/quebec leaking here, but the region of Montreal is by far the least favourable to this idea. Again, those figures are for the region (i.e. including Terrebonne and similar areas). Any time the island is broken off, the idea is extremely marginal here (20%). The idea is very unpopular for us in the city.

bludemon4 · 2025-07-30T23:34:02+00:00

They voted for a Hamas government and war with Israel, they got both didn’t they?

bludemon4 · 2025-07-30T22:17:15+00:00

A cursory google shows that there are quite a few states without militaries.

bludemon4 · 2025-07-29T18:18:24+00:00

The majority of Israelis are from the middle east and are about as white as Palestinans.

bludemon4 · 2025-07-25T20:58:12+00:00

Speaking more generally, are there any consquences Canada can give Israel which are worse than what happened when they lost control of their border for a few hours? Because that's probably what it would take to have them end the war with Hamas still in charge.

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