A plan for peace between anglos and francos?
Quel Avenir introduced on Monday a series on bringing about peace between francophones and anglophones in Montreal. As we’ve noticed on this blog, some of the irritation between the two groups has been a media construct anyway, but not all. I’ll link to what his various contributors come up with.
Rachel 08:13 on 2012/04/24 Permalink
Reading many of the comments there from our franco-Quebecois neighbours, I’m not so sure it’s a media construct at all.
Robert J 08:47 on 2012/04/24 Permalink
I think it’s important to remember that internet commenters, especially on media sites tend to be people with extreme points of view, not necessarily representative of the general population. Thankfully, this blog is more intelligent…
Ian 08:51 on 2012/04/24 Permalink
…you should see the hateful commentary on the CBC news articles…
Robert H 09:31 on 2012/04/24 Permalink
Ian, I have,and it makes me worry about the future of Canada to read the gloating, ignorant, and frequently bigoted remarks in the comments. I prefer to believe Robert J is correct, but for a sizeable group of citizens, Québec is a tumor in the Canadian body politic whose extraction, as far as they’re concerned, would be good riddance to bad rubbish. The Parti Québécois can just sit back and let these idiots do its work for it.
qatzelok 10:17 on 2012/04/25 Permalink
Robert, every non-Anglo community in Canada’s history has been “seen” as a tumor that needs to be removed. This isn’t something special about Quebec. It’s a special trait of Anglo-Canada.
Ian 14:56 on 2012/04/25 Permalink
@qatzelok – I’ve heard this peculiar view expressed before, I guess you’re not aware of the Franco-Ontarians? Or Toronto, where, for example, the actual street signs in the main Chinatown are in both Chinese and English? Or that Toronto is considerably more multicultural than Montreal, with half its population made up of immigrants? You’re not the first person I’ve heard to accuse “anglo” Canada of being monocultural, but I can assure you that everyone I’ve heard say that has been from here in Quebec. I only speak of Ontario because I know the most about it, but I can assure you, having travelled across Canada, that there are strong ethnic communities pretty much everywhere except the one province that actively suppresses multiculturalism – ours.
qatzelok 23:32 on 2012/04/25 Permalink
“You’re not the first person I’ve heard to accuse “anglo” Canada of being monocultural,”
I wouldn’t accuse it of being monocultural. I accuse it of being anti-cultural. “Multic-culturalism” is mainly a way to ensure that the last remaining shreds of “local” culture are eradicated so that commerce can have a monopoly on public opinion.
Ian 04:55 on 2012/04/26 Permalink
Ah, so as long as it’s “local” culture it’s OK, everything else has to be suppressed? Tell it to the natives.
Kevin 07:10 on 2012/04/26 Permalink
@qatzelok
There’s a poll out Wednesday showing that 30% of Quebecers think anglophones should not have the right to speak English where other people can hear them.
Pot, meet kettle.
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