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erica
@heavygweit
actually wild to me that quebec is allowed to prohibit all public services from being rendered in english even though both english and french are the official languages of the COUNTRY we live in 🫠 🥲 i've lived here 12 years and idt i'll ever get used to it
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Korede
@korede
Kind of makes sense from their push for secession, but it definitely sucks.
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erica
@heavygweit
the whole secession and "je me souviens" thing is so twisted though like yeah okay we get it, you remember that you were persecuted by english settlers and colonizers and you want to protect your french culture and you're never going to forget this and will continue to hold a grudge forever but it's a HUGE no-no to take it further and say "but y'all were colonizers yourselves in the first place and pushed out the indigenous population and did far worse to them than the english did to you" also like, the french language is not at risk of dying lmao /rant
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Korede
@korede
Completely agree. Was mainly pointing out that it's probably consistent with their desire to exist independently. As someone that moved to Canada a few years ago, the sheer number of government documents that featured "in all provinces (except Quebec)" also just made me mentally treat it as a separate entity. Hopefully, this changes at some point in the future though.
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erica
@heavygweit
oh totally haha I was using your cast for a little rant on the provincial slogan Quebec definitely wants to be on its own - a ton of insurance policies also don’t apply to Quebec residents (I learned this the hard way)
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