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Bill 96: Group seeking injunction against Quebec's French-language law
(montreal.ctvnews.ca)
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If someone who speaks Chinese and only Chinese lives in a country like Germany. Either they are immigrants or children of immigrants who were born there and lived there for their whole life and never learned German for whatever reason. If they can't integrate into the society, find work and make a living, or can't get any services in their mother tongue, this person has a serious problem on their hands. What do you expect them to do then?
I don't wish for people to have to uproot their lives and leave their home because of a language barrier, but let's be reasonable. If they don't want to learn French out of stubbornness, disdain or xenophobia (which is often the case, believe it or not) then that's on them.
The Canadian East Coast is more French that you might think actually. Québec also is the almos single major producer of francophone content in Canada. Why else is Radio Canada (French CBC) having so much success compared to English CBC? We produce a lot of TV series, movies, music, litterature, that is available throughout Canada. Nothing's stopping people outside of Québec from consuming all this cultural content. Meanwhile French populations are losing ground across the country with every generation. I mean, Franco Ontarians, the second largest francophone population outside Québec, have been fighting tooth and nail to get financing for French schools, they've been fighting to get ONE francophone university. They have ONE francophone hospital, Montfort hospital in Ottawa. I would love for French to spread across Canada too, but it seems there is no will from provincial governments to enable this at all. Quite the opposite even.
English CEGEPs aren't banned, but I get your point and I agree with you there. The whole limit they want to apply to English colleges is stupid.
Anyway, for the record, Québec is not banning any language. They're not banning anything. It's still one of the provinces with the most services and accomodations for both languages. There are several school boards, colleges and universityes (Link) several hospitals (see top 7 in the results here) and there are still plenty of employers who will hire unilingual anglophones. Commercial signage is still in both English and French.
At most, the things the bill 96 will do is cause a bit more inconveniences for non-francophones, but that's about it. Nothing and no one is getting banned.