Because it is? It's taught in schools, a majority of Montrealers are fluent, the ones that aren't tend to be migrants from outside of Montreal/elderly people. It's a skill that not only makes you more attractive for jobs, if you don't speak it it's actually a hindrance to get one. The people in Ontario that only speak French live in isolated parts of Ontario, and the youth in those communities will speak English.







Says so in your profile.

This post was edited by Caedus on Jan 6 2015 01:34pm

i'm a canadian with a french education

It's a normal self-defence mechanism. The day I won't be able to order Tim hortons in french I'll be very sad.

Until future generations forget that their grand parents spoke french, that fear of losing part of who we are will always be there.

This post was edited by BiG_BeN on Jan 6 2015 01:41pm

what does ethnicity have to do with it ? and thers no way thats right + its from 06
im done this is pointless

plus its racist, they gave NA Indians brown color

I love when you make a post asking a stupid question that is answered if you learned how to read.

H4bs said most Quebecois would self-identify as Quebecois not Canadian. I countered with census data that showed people in Quebec actually overwhelmingly self-identify as Canadian. It's about 65%, which is close to the percentage of people who would vote to stay in Canada if another independence referendum was held.

Not sure what that proves... french people will not say they are french, they will say they are Quebecois.

French is not Quebecois


That is false, Quebecois will not identify themselves as french. I never said that.

For you it might not be a big difference but it is here

French in that cencus = France. Quebecers =/= France

This post was edited by h4bs on Jan 6 2015 01:53pm

People lie

Lie people

Caedus taking a page out of koj's boring day at the farm book.

I never said they would self-identify as French. You said Quebecois will not self-identify as Canadian, yet ~65% of them did do so in the census. This is self-identified, they could have picked someone else other than Canadian if they didn't felt that think it applied to them. 'Canadian' isn't an ethnic origin, it's a way of expressing that you're not French, English, Irish or German, you're just "Canadian". And Quebecois people do this.

I don't know what to tell you. The census is a statistical study that is pretty much un-refutable.



Lol why lie about that? Unless you're from some embarrassing place like Baie-Comeau...

This post was edited by Caedus on Jan 6 2015 01:53pm