Quebec Rant

Today, I am a less proud Canadian. Don’t get me wrong I love Canada, but Quebec’s stupidity, it appears, is on a much higher level then I thought it was. But I am no separatist, and Quebec Is part of Canada, so if I am ashamed of Quebec then the rest of Canada must share the shame to. It all started at dinner tonight...

In honor of my cousin’s arrival from Switzerland we had a big family dinner and invited all the awesome people in my family. My cousin said she mentioned seeing a bunch of stores that were badly translated to French. Like for example, what I consider the most shameful part of Quebec, PKF (Poulet FrIt Kentucky). The part of Switzerland that my cousin is from is completely French and she’s never seen anything like this. Seriously, It’s embarrassing. So anyways
We got on the subject of Quebec’s ridiculous language protection laws and my aunt, who happened to know a lot about the subject, started talking about how there are these officers for keeping the French language Intact. And they are dumb. Because basically it’s there job to make sure French Is being used enough, and they fine people for stupid things. For example, bars sometimes get free costars from beer companies because they advertise the company but the bars get them free, win right? Not if you live here because most bear companies are In English, these costars are In English. A bar got FINED for that. hgsduerow'j;lkgjdfa WTF??? And there are supposedly all these other laws about how signs, if they are In English and French, must have the French translation twice as big as the English one. Of course if you have one just In French this is not a problem. If you have one just In English then... oh wait, that’s not allowed. Never mind.
And supposedly there are a bunch of these laws, like if your business has more then a certain number of employees; they have to communicate with each other In French. If you say him, Instead of bonjour, him then you could get fined and all this other crap.

My aunt also says that there are all these signs around Montréal that say "mercy de me service en Francais" (thank you for serving me In French). Now that I think of one I think I've seen them before. And then there are more adds for that kind of thing on ENGLISH radio stations, which basically means that they’re telling the Anglophones to speak French to, which is annoying.

I am not the type of person who complains about taxes. Our sales tax here is around 15%, which is high, but I've always trusted my government enough to use this money well, on schools, fixing roads, health care... the average. Things I use and should contribute to. But apparently they're also spending it on ads telling me I need to speak French. I like French (not Quebecois French but still) I have no problem using It In stores or when I go around, but I don't want to be told I have to and pay for the advertisements telling me to do It.

So this annoys me, I am thankful that the rest of Canada doesn’t say "FINE QUEBEC, YOU WANNA SEPERATE... WE DONT FUCKING WANT YOU ANYWAYS". Seriously were such hassles I don't understand why they bother. (It’s all money for sure)

But my cousins here and were having a good time :) She's excited to go to the gay pride parade next Sunday