Europe unites in hatred of French

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Texas is addicted to farm subsidies? Since when?

Cotton is huge business in Texas and those boys sure do love their subsides.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Ned
BTW, I have no idea why the Canadians continue to occupy Quebec. They ought to return it to France. The people of Q really don't like the English. It is obvious.

[Spiffor]

I seriously doubt there are Québecois who want to become part of France. How many English Canadians want to be governed from London?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Would be good for European Union's further expansion into North America too....

That will be the day.

The next logical step for NAFTA is the free movement of labor. We already have free movement of goods and the free movement of capital so labor is the last road block. Ideally, some sort of deal will be worked out so that one border patrol agency covered all three countries so that drug smuggling and people smuggling could be jointly controlled.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I seriously doubt there are Québecois who want to become part of France. How many English Canadians want to be governed from London?

They don't want to part of France. A minority want to be independent but the reality is the Quebec would be non-economically viable or at least more marginal then the wider Canadian state.

It does strike me as two faced that the English paqrts of Canada have to have French signs even though there are virtually no native French speakers in those areas. Compared to Quebec where all signs are in French and where a significant part of the population are native English speakers.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Oerdin


That will be the day.

You know the North East is just longing to join the socialist Utopia. Then the domino theory kicks in, leaving just the south to rise again, just as they always said they would.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I seriously doubt there are Québecois who want to become part of France. How many English Canadians want to be governed from London?

Governered from? Surely you jest. Q is no longer a colony, but an equal partner.

[Dauphin]

Wales is supposedly an equal partner to England. Still largely governed from London though.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Ned
Governered from? Surely you jest. Q is no longer a colony, but an equal partner.

France is a centralized country. For Québec to be an equal partner to France, Québec would have to be an independant nation (which is what the independantist Québecois want, incidentally )

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Spiffor
The French are much loser than the Québecois on the issue.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Ned
Some years ago, I visited Canada and journeyed into the French speaking part of Canada. All the signs were in French and I had a very hard time getting around or doing anything.

You had a hard time figuring out the difference between "Dorchester Blvd" and "Boul. Dorchester"?

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Oerdin
It does strike me as two faced that the English paqrts of Canada have to have French signs even though there are virtually no native French speakers in those areas. Compared to Quebec where all signs are in French and where a significant part of the population are native English speakers.

I don't know where people get that info, that's just false.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Oerdin

the reality is the Quebec would be non-economically viable

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


You had a hard time figuring out the difference between "Dorchester Blvd" and "Boul. Dorchester"?

Perhaps because they've changed it to Boul. René Lévesque.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Richelieu

Laugh all you like but don't come crying to the big bad US when your Quebec Dollar turns out to be the peso of the north.

Quebec sucks up a ton of subsidies from the Candian Federal government so it looks better off then it really is but if those subsidies stopped (and they would stop if the independence crowd got what they wanted) then propare to see schools close, roads go unrepaired, and police forces slashed.