Re: Failed Quebec selection interview

> If you don't have at least a working knowledge of French, why would you
want
> to move to Quebec in the first place?  Their anti-English laws make doing
> most things there difficult for someone who cannot function in the French
> langauage at the very least a basic level.

Might be a good idea if you do a bit more research before talking about
supposed anti-English laws.  There are no anti-English laws on the Quebec
statute.  There is of course the famous or depending on your point of view
notorious Law 101, but it is not anti-English or anti any language for that
matter.  It is there to promote and protect the French language, and bloody
right too.  Just because a bunch of uptight anglos in the West Island with
sticks stuck up their backsides moan about their lack of rights.  In fact as
I have stated before anglophones have far more rights than they should
compared to any other minority group in Quebec.

If you want to live in the rest of Canada and interact with the community at
large you need to have basic English skills, I don't see anyone moaning
about that you have to learn English to live in Ontario or BC in any of the
newsgroups.   If you want to live any sense of a normal life in any foreign
country an understanding of the language of that country is a must.  English
dominates North America and therefore Quebec needs to have some means to
promote and protect the French language.  Laws aren't the best way, but if
there was no Law 101 French in Quebec would be under even more serious
threat than it is now.

The only way for people to really understand this is to try and imagine if
it were the other way arround, ie. if French dominated North America and
English was the minority.  How would you feel then?   Unfortunatally most
anglophones are either incapable or are too closed minded and arrogant to
understand the situation.

Ashley Watson