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However, you read it here first, it doesn't do what Danielle Smith is trying to make Albertans believe it does. Spoiler alert for the shitshow :P |
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I'm pretty sure I've used the analogy before but JHikka's position on Section 33 of the Charter is exactly like calling someone who sells their Vancouver primary residence and pockets a few million dollars fully tax-free "a tax cheat".
Using Section 33 isn't "violating the Constitution", not paying tax on capital gains from the sale of one's primary residence isn't "cheating on one's taxes". Sure, in both cases, some people might disapprove, and strongly wish the laws were written differently; fair enough; but it's not AT ALL the same thing as saying people are violating the laws. |
Conclusion from the last couple of pages: even many otherwise smart Canadians don't understand dick about how the Constitution works.
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I was at Eagle Nest Lookout in Bancroft, ON, a predominately anglophone town. I’m pleasantly surprised to see that the captions* are trilingual: English, Algonquin, and French.
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The SCOC struck down the original provisions on English school access in Bill 101 (known as the "Quebec clause") and replaced it with what is known as the "Canada clause", i.e. section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. |
Another thing about this thread: I would have bet a million bucks that the discussion would eventually go towards people not being able to believe that Lio could be a nice guy in real life (and likeable to Vancouverites), just because he posts stuff on here that people disagree with.
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On the topic of the French language itself I had a few observations of things I've come to realize about my own bilingualism. For the longest time I keep misspelling the word syrup. I constantly first spell it "syrop". I finally realized that what has happened is I have fused the english and french spellings together into a Frankenstein word (Sirop and Syrup) without realizing it. It's almost Acadian Franglais in a way.
Likewise I have also come to realize that my sentence structures are often backwards to standard english ones. I believe this also comes from being bilingual. I don't speak it often (I usually reply in english to my mom when she speaks french), but I do speak with family in Quebec still and also occasionally force myself to speak it with her and my franco Albertan relatives. My grammaire has suffered over the years (I use anglicisms kinda like JT does) but I can actually speak french with a Quebecois accent that fools francophones until I struggle for some vocabulary. Were I to move to Quebec it probably wouldn't take me long to fully integrate. I spent one summer mowing lawns with my cousin in Boucherville and by the time I returned home I thought in french, dreamed in french and even struggled to find english words and had a pseudo accent. Long story short, I find it interesting how my brain appears to retain quite a bit of francophone wiring even though I barely speak the language anymore. |
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(Which is, clearly, pretty serious discrimination, by dleung's whiny Anglo standards of Quebec "oppression". I couldn't live in my language! Imagine that.) One of my most trusted employees (and primary 2IC) liked to tease me about Quebec (I wasn't even disagreeing with him; Quebec is indeed full of flaws!), but we of course became good friends nonetheless. I am still in touch with a few friends from my time in Vancouver. Except for him, no one cared where I was from (except in a "cool! I'd like to visit someday" sense). Can't help but laugh at your impression that I have "strong opinions" and that whatever we're discussing here defines who I am in real life. |
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You’re right that this forum isn’t a perfect reflection of who we are in real life though. I’d like to know the lighter side of lio. The new father perhaps. |
There are almost no French first speakers living in Vancouver surprisingly. I wish there were more actually.
I'd almost say they are outnumbered by tourists from France. |
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Well, as anti-Francophones measures, Alberta could close all French universities... wait, what French universities? Ok, they could close all French hospitals... oops, same problem... They could stop giving traffic tickets in French... no, they already don't do that. Calgary could stop translating its municipal election guide in French... no, it is translated in 10 languages but not in French. Hmmm! I suppose Alberta could open work camps for Francophones, but I don't see anything like that happening in Alberta (and if it did, maybe we should stop buying Alberta oil and start buying Saudi Arabia oil instead...). |
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