Mouais. Un petit cours de français.

[French Castanut]

I don't even find this one funny but:



We say: "La belle Province" and not "La belle Provence".. Provence is a France Region, same as Okanagan is for BC. LOLLLLLLLL

[nickd]

I do.
The French are always crying about something.

[Babbitman]

All they do is whine.
If their yellow jar of mustard doesnt say moutard on it, they start a civil liberties suit.
If an english dudes mustard says moutard, but not mustard, he doesnt notice, and he smears some on his hot dog.
It all goes back to the plains of abraham.
I say, give them their own national boundary, give them their own currency, and have them pay their share of the national debt.
There, you're on your own.
Have fun working for Bombardier and the local maple syrup dude.

That country will be applying to canada for foreign aid in a week.

[French Castanut]

All they do is whine.
It all goes back to the plains of abraham.
I say, give them their own national boundary, give them their own currency, and have them pay their share of the national debt.
There, you're on your own.
Have fun working for Bombardier and the local maple syrup dude.

That country will be applying to canada for foreign aid in a week.

This thread was about flagrant mistakes in cartoons BUT since the two of you opened the windows... some tend to forget that without Quebec, Canada is NOTHING.

Oops.... to get the grain from the prairies out of the great Lakes someone have to take a boat on the St Lawrence.
Oops... to get your goods accross the Artic Sea Channel, someone also have to take a boat on Quebec Territory
Oops... Quebec shares 25% of Canada's wide and open population
Oops... Montreal alone is more populated than individual New Brunswick, NewFoundland, IPE, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and Maybe Alberta. It also holds 2/3 of BC's population. Greater Montreal population is 3,000,000 people. Think about the taxes amount it brings to you.
Oops... cheap and renewable electricity produced by water comes from Quebec as well, making good for Ontario
Oops... Quebec is THE only place in the world with so much water... and drinkable water
Oops... Canada's history started with the Frenchies, and we were home to the US loyalists... meaning YOU
Oops... Maple sirup is no fashion anymore. We got aluminium plants, gold, copper and silver mines, oil, paper & textile manufactures.
Oops... We just started a new industry: Wineries! (Yes, brand new!!!)
Oops... Maybe the students are not complaining for nothing. Yes, they have the lowest tuitions fee in North America... but what's our tax load in Quebec? The highest in North America!!!

-We pay double the income taxes amount you do in BC. That equals to thousands $ more a year
-Our PST is now 9.5% + GST, making it 15%
-We now pay a 200$ / year "health tax"
-That's not including the health insurance tax
-Govt has increased hydro bills, but they were already doing billions profit on electricity
-Govt has also increased the load on median wages... making the rich richer
-Basic food is expensive. In example, milk is now 7.50$ for a 4L, how much do you pay in BC? Why is that? Because govt controls the price with quotas, same for potatoes. But to keep prices high, they drain millions of liters of milk in sewers every year, and they bulldoze millions of potatoes in fields to create a shortage of food (the demand/offer thing you know).

And for you canadians, whining about the equalization... I'm all in for cuts in the Quebec spendings. I don't care about their 400,000$ toilet bowls or 110,000$ showers, and the 7$ a day nurseries, or over the top pensions for Quebec ministers, and having to pay twice the employees amounts because Quebec wants to take care of everything when the feds already do.

One must know what it is to live in Quebec before complaining about these students. Taxes are high.... Yes, we're crooked by our govt, and people have started rising against it.. That's what's it's all about.

[The Green Barbarian]

Have fun working for Bombardier and the local maple syrup dude.

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Without the massive Canadian government subsidization they receive, Bombardier would last about 6 months on its own. They've forgotten what's it like to operate in markets with competition without big daddy paying all of their bills.

[Smurf]

Too bad all these people you mention are whiners. It's you yourself (Quebec) that are causing all the problems you mention, not the rest of Canada, so why should we have to pay for it (equalization). Clean up your act. Shut up about separation and maybe the rest of Canada would listen to you.

[The Green Barbarian]

This thread was about flagrant mistakes in cartoons BUT since the two of you opened the windows... some tend to forget that without Quebec, Canada is NOTHING..

That's a bit extreme. I'm sure that's what you are told in school in Quebec, which probably explains your sense of entitlement and why you don't seem to experience the emotion "shame" ever, no matter how much whining and moaning you do, and how embarrassing this looks to everyone else, who is paying your bills, due to Quebec's gross mismanagement and corruption, which once again, you guys seem to think you owe no apologies for.

Oops.... to get the grain from the prairies out of the great Lakes someone have to take a boat on the St Lawrence..

and all we'll need to do is put one frigate on guard beside that boat, and not only would you guys let it through, but you'd probably surrender en-mass to it. The one thing you guys do well, is give up, when the going gets tough.

Oops... to get your goods accross the Artic Sea Channel, someone also have to take a boat on Quebec Territory..

see above re grain shipments.

Oops... Quebec shares 25% of Canada's wide and open population..

you guys are at 8.25 million people? Anyway - good for you!

Oops... Montreal alone is more populated than individual New Brunswick, NewFoundland, IPE, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and Maybe Alberta. It also holds 2/3 of BC's population. Greater Montreal population is 3,000,000 people. Think about the taxes amount it brings to you...

more like look at all it costs us in transfer payments alone, let alone the costs of bilingualism etc. I had a relative in the federal government who had the misfortune of trying to deal with funding some of the federal offices in Quebec. She tried to speak her best french which of course wasn't great, and even took lessons, but still would get sworn at all the time by Quebecois, who refused to talk to her, in either language. Finally, she gave up and just used this line: "I have tried to converse with you in French. I know you speak English, so you understand what I am saying. I control your funding. Swearing at me is not motivating me to advance your funds to you. When you decide to be civil, you can call me, and we can discuss your funds being released". It usually took an hour tops, for an apologetic Francophone, to call back, in English, and say they were sorry. It's this crappy attitude that the rest of Canada can't stand. We understand you have a chip on your shoulder for how you were treated 100 years ago. We understand Jean Lesage filled your heads with crap about how you were special and so you deserve to be treated differently. We understand you were here before us. Now understand this - we all share this country, so we are all equal and the same. If you want special treatment, go somewhere else.

Oops... cheap and renewable electricity produced by water comes from Quebec as well, making good for Ontario...

most of your power actually comes from Newfoundland, whom you pay pennies for the power, and then charge dollars to re-sell it. Newfoundland would love it if those contracts were ripped up, and they could find another way to supply power to other sources, like the US.

Oops... Canada's history started with the Frenchies, and we were home to the US loyalists... meaning YOU...

well I am a first generation Canadian, so no, not me. And most of the US loyalists settled in Ontario, not Quebec. And that's irrelevant anyway, given by the time the Loyalists left the US in the 1780's, you guys had been a British colony for over 20 years. You are the ones who should be thanking the Brits for not expelling you all when you got your butts kicked in 1759 by Wolfe. They let you stay here. They could have treated you far far worse.

One must know what it is to live in Quebec before complaining about these students. Taxes are high.... Yes, we're crooked by our govt, and people have started rising against it.. That's what's it's all about.

And yet the CBC, whose love affair with the idiot students apparently knows no bounds, led yet again with a "student protest" story on Saturday after the hockey game, and the first loony-tune student they interviewed (some kid standing there with his stupid red square on his shirt) they asked why he was protesting the F1 and he said "Because I hate capitalism". Yes, capitalism is the real issue here - these idiots protesting are all young bone-heads whose heads have been filled with crap by their even dumber professors. That's what is going on here.

[French Castanut]

and all we'll need to do is put one frigate on guard beside that boat, and not only would you guys let it through, but you'd probably surrender en-mass to it. The one thing you guys do well, is give up, when the going gets tough.

Des ouï-dires sans fondement, like most of your previous post.

you guys are at 8.25 million people? Anyway - good for you!

According to stats can, Quebec pop is 7,903,001. Close enough.
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recen ... 1&S=50&O=A

most of your power actually comes from Newfoundland, whom you pay pennies for the power, and then charge dollars to re-sell it. Newfoundland would love it if those contracts were ripped up, and they could find another way to supply power to other sources, like the US.

Lack of education maybe... I'll excuse you. We produce our own electricity in our own North. Quebec is self-sufficient and provides electricity to Ontario, New York, Buffalo areas. Yes sometimes we buy it from the uSA cuz we're wise. WE, with water, can stop and start produce electricy instantaniously. In the USA, with coal plants, it has to keep running 24/7. So overnight, we buy it cheaper down south when they have too much for their own use, and during daytime, we sell our more expensively when they don't have enough. Electricity in Qc is about 5c a kilowatt. Can you say the same?



As for the loyalists, they settled in "Cantons-de-l'Est", the southernmost region of the province du Québec, bordering the USA.
And in the old days, about Canada... Canada was Quebec, then they made it bigger to include everything from coast to coast.
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Etc etc

Anyways, when you claim lies high and loud, please provide your sources.

[The Green Barbarian]

As for the loyalists, they settled in "Cantons-de-l'Est", the southernmost region of the province du Québec, bordering the USA.
Anyways, when you claim lies high and loud, please provide your sources.

The loyalists settled in many places.

These Loyalists settled in what was initially Quebec (including the Eastern Townships) and modern-day Ontario, where they received land grants of 200 acres (81 ha) per person, and in Nova Scotia (including modern-day New Brunswick). Their arrival marked the beginning of a predominantly English-speaking population in the future Canada west and east of the Quebec border.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist

I don't really want to fight with you. Unlike a lot of separatists, you actually sound somewhat moderate, and have a bit of knowledge that few are willing to grasp. Like a lot of English Canadians, my perception of the French is based on personal experience, and the whining and crying we see nightly from you guys on our TV's, thanks to the idiots at the CBC. The whole "we are better than you so we deserve better" nonsense you guys project just engenders ill feelings, even if that's not the message you are intending to send.

I grew up with French Canadians surrounding me but they weren't Quebec French, so they weren't the entitled losers we see the CBC fawning over every night, and I always got along with them great - and most of them were great hockey players so it was fun to play with them and against them too. I had never even met a Quebecois until the time I worked in a cadet camp in Alberta, which had army cadets from all over Canada, and even England, Scotland and Germany. The only cadets that were an issue were the Quebecois, who all arrived with this stupid chip on their shoulder. They refused to even attempt to speak English to anybody, even though they obviously understood completely. Every cadet group had their own marching songs, but the Quebecois contingent insisted on marching around the camp shouting "Kau-bec! Kay-bec!" and making obscene gestures. I worked in the kitchen, and I hated dealing with them as they were always rude. They'd come up, start babbling orders in French, knowing full well none of us spoke it, then when we'd say "Sorry dude, you are going to have to speak English" they'd sigh audibly, swear even more audibly, then go off and tell a cadet, in English, that this "f-ing" civilian wouldn't do anything for them because they were French. I wanted to do what they were asking, I just couldn't understand it. It was just an excuse, to be a jerk. And we're tired of the excuses, and we're tired of the jerkiness. Enough already. Grow up Quebec.

[French Castanut]

I grew up with French Canadians surrounding me but they weren't Quebec French, so they weren't the entitled losers we see the CBC fawning over every night, and I always got along with them great - and most of them were great hockey players so it was fun to play with them and against them too. I had never even met a Quebecois until the time I worked in a cadet camp in Alberta, which had army cadets from all over Canada, and even England, Scotland and Germany. The only cadets that were an issue were the Quebecois, who all arrived with this stupid chip on their shoulder. They refused to even attempt to speak English to anybody, even though they obviously understood completely. Every cadet group had their own marching songs, but the Quebecois contingent insisted on marching around the camp shouting "Kau-bec! Kay-bec!" and making obscene gestures. I worked in the kitchen, and I hated dealing with them as they were always rude. They'd come up, start babbling orders in French, knowing full well none of us spoke it, then when we'd say "Sorry dude, you are going to have to speak English" they'd sigh audibly, swear even more audibly, then go off and tell a cadet, in English, that this "f-ing" civilian wouldn't do anything for them because they were French. I wanted to do what they were asking, I just couldn't understand it. It was just an excuse, to be a jerk. And we're tired of the excuses, and we're tired of the jerkiness. Enough already. Grow up Quebec.

It would be like sayin all gangsters are black people. There are good people in every nation, as there is shortsighted ones in all of them as well.

I believe English Canadians are all racists, since I was told by one of them on the phone back in 2006 to go back in my f****** country. *sarcasm*