Wait till they learn about other languages in other countries.
They’re crushing Spanish in their own country.
The US conquered land from Mexico some centuries ago, and thus there’s a large population of monolingual Spanish speakers in the south of the country.
“wait, we have to follow laws of other countries?” that’s illegal!
Je ne peux pas parler Francais avec un peu de compétence, mais la langue des Québécois n’est pas une barrière pour les gens avec un peu de respect!
Pff. All that high school French and that’s the best I can do. Anyways, shut up, US.
C’est déjà bien! Faut pas se décourager :)
You know, I only learned the basics of English at school. I became bilingual through exposition to the language, which admittedly is far easier for English than French in my opinion, but still.
Écoute mon gros gros pédophile et ses amis, tu pourrais me battre au sang que tu ne m’empêchera pas de parler ma langue. Gader vos estie de cochonneries amazon et vos films de super-héros pour idiots heureuz et enfoncez-vous les bien profondément dans le cul.
As a French French, I have the feeling Don picked the wrong fight…
The US government doesn’t give a shit about anything except excuses for their catastrophic tariff plan. They want to highlight issues that will never be negotiable so they can justify them to Faux News and their Trumper cult. It is a classic divide an conquer technique on Canada. Further, I am sure Russia is running troll farms with misinformation on us now.
Dairy industry, VS oil and gas, VS Québécois.
Who is next?
Concede nothing to the US.
Totally agree. “Make an outrageous demand” is one of the few tools in trumps repitoire.
Even if we did somehow ascede to it, he’d just come up with something new. The point is to have something to hang over us, not to actually get the thing.
Time to learn more french.
Better off with Spanish my friend. Many more scenarios where Spanish is useful and English is unusable than with french speaking areas. I am biased though, i’ve worked for french companies and my wife natively speaks Spanish.
Should counter with the USA using the imperial system.
You don’t negotiate and speak with a kid in a sandbox having a tantrum. You educate.
Well with a child you are the kid’s source of authority, jailer, etc. if you can get Trump to view you as an authority or get him into a jail of some kind, you may have the ability to educate.
Under the current situation, I don’t think you have any power over the child.
I don’t speak French, but I assure you I would kill and if necessary die to ensure Quebec always can. We stand together.
It’s the old “I don’t necessarily agree with what you are saying, but I would defend to the death your right to say it” ideal, and I’m 100% down for it.
That moment when Louisiana (in the U.S.) looks around and says wait, our laws are based on Napoleonic laws, we French based too right?
I mean, the Cajuns, the best part of Louisiana, are basically Quebecois.
Some would argue the Cajun are the Quebecois who were unwilling to submit to British rule.
No argument there. They stayed French much longer that way.
FU. You want to sell your products here you package them in our languages.
I have a lot of issues with the French legislation, but I understand why it exists. It’s not about me, and it’s not about American businesses either!
I don’t know a lot about Canada but isn’t that how you piss off quebec?
It takes even less. I think they’re all but chewing their shields and loading the cow into the catapult now.
Lmao.
Dude, not even the English could keep the Quebecers from speaking French, and they tried for over 100 years after the Brits took the province in the Seven Years War.
Good luck with that one, Cheeto.
Trump is using this to cause a crisis in Canada. Quebec objects, the ROC 1) may grow impatient with an agreement not being made. 2) IF the ROC rallies behind Quebec, the US will use if forever to justify tariffs.
Dirty tactics.
What does the Republic of China have to do with this?
I believe ROC is the “rest of Canada” in this context.
It’s what the oil barons call their responsibilities in the boom years and their benefactors when shit’s on fire.
Like a third of the charter of rights and freedoms is about language laws and french/english. Even as a west coaster, I highly doubt there’s a scenario where Canada doesn’t side with Quebec on this front.
So option 2 it is – but that’s their endgame anyway, they’re just hunting for an excuse to do it anyhow. Thats been clear ever since he dredged up Fentanyl as a boogeyman. Just hurry up and diversify trade more – I’m fairly sure we can find other markets for most goods. Any business that’s just sitting there hoping this will blow over, and/or that the government will bail them out, and isn’t taking direct actions to mitigate this issue that’s been months and months in the making… deserves to fail.
