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I'm not anti-french..hell I lived in Montreal for 11 years but I saw something this morning that kinda pissed me off..

I saw a couple of OC Transpo bussses with French only advertising on them! WTF is that all about? Could you imagine if they ran english only adds on busses in Quebec?? lol.

Anyway - I think that's BS and I thought I would rant a bit on it.

 
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let's all gang up on Viper... it's all his fault...









wait............ he might actually like that, nevermind..

 
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lol, everything here is mostly french only, it doesnt really bother me that much?

 
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You live in Gatineau, Quebec...that's to be expected...lol. I wouldn't wander over into Quebec and wonder why there wasn't any english adds.

I live in Ottawa, Onatario.....at the very least, the adds are to be BILLINGUAL but even that pisses me off sometimes.

 
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Calisse de tabarnaque cest pas de ma faute estie de crisse ...

Lacher de me faire chier avec Gatineau parceque je vais vous crisser une grosse calisse de voler..

OK????

 
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yes it is your fault!!

 
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What the Fawk do you care you dont even take the BUS!!!!!!!!
lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Mostly French take OC Transpo Buses anyways..

Its called assimilation buddy so get use to it...

bwahahahahahaha

 
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NEVER...!!! I used to laugh at all the people in Hull/Gatinueau that wanted to seperate but thought they would be able to keep their government jobs there and in Ottawa..haha.

 
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hell no it doesn't. WE need a good debate or something in here..lol

 
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We Quebec came really close to a sovereing (Spelling) country ..It almost happened it was really close..

Thank God it didnt happen...

I couldn't imagine what would have went on.....

 
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It was my home region that won the referendum for the NO side..good 'ol West Island...it's literally the only place in Quebec where the english and french get along perfectly.....I miss it there sometimes.

 
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I bet no one knows what i said in french hey lolll

 
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^ well I know for a fact that there's a whole bunch of swearing involved, just because of "Calisse de tabarnaque"... probably mentioned "shit" somewhere there too

 
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hahahahahah! this is what altavista translator wrote:

To release to make me **** with Gatineau because I will grate you a gross calisse to fly

 
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Look I am French and I work for a Quebec company I dont think it is fair that OC transpo has all french signs because on 2 of my trailers here in the yard they writing is only in English(a mistake by a square head in TO for not making it bilingual) and I cannot roll these trailers on the Quebec side because there is no french on them and I already got a 350$ ticket because of it...

And Marc it is not good to swear on the holy chalise

 
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I think that after I finish school, I'll be moving to another country because I'm sick of the frenchvsenglish debate

 
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I agree there should be no vs it is just that in Ontario our stop signs say STOP ARRET and in Hull they are just ARRET

 
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Strange - as STOP has been officially added as a french word (because of the great debates on the signs).. I know a good portion (not all though) of the stop signs have changed to just STOP instead of S/A or just A ..

 
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C'est juste un placard publicitaire.

 
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I know it is just a public sign but it shows that ontarioians at least try at bilingalism and there are some people that live 5 min from the bridga and dont speak ant english at all

 
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there are some people 5 min from the bridge on this side that don't speak any french. (guilty)
the problem lies with the fact that Quebec is not a bilingual province, it is french first and foremost. If there is to be any english at all it MUST be secondary (ie smaller print)
Ontario on the other hand is a officially bilingual province. I have no problem with that, but then we should really be equally strick with our bilingual enforcement. I'm from northern ontario and there are some communities up there that are completely french. I remember losing my temper at a Tim Hortons employee becasue I couldn't order a friggin coffee. (No signs, wouldn't speak english) Its not like I couldn't sorta figure it out, but if I have to put up with all the mandatory bilingual ****, it should go both ways (sorta like Viper,hehe)

 
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Well said dude!

 
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DUde, First of all go anywere in gatineau or hull, any shop,talk to them in english people will be able to understand ya and talk back to you, then go to ottawa, and try to speak french to freaking mcdonals or wallmart I dont care, 80% of the people wont understand a thing and wont bother to try...

Go to frecking alberta, bc, manitoba, anywhere, I dont see any french under the english signs exept in french villages.

Go to toronto even, there nothing is french there...

the only places you'll see french words are in french villages or on Goverment Proprety so dont give me that bull **** that you guys are trying...

its the same thing in qc, all are goverment stuff and municipal stuff can be have in english

 
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The reason Alberta, BC, and Manitoba don't know french/have french sign is because they are nowhere near a french speaking province. They have no need to speak any other language except for english. You go to BC for example, speak french and they will be liek "WTF?" Mind you a big second language in BC is Chinese, Japanese, Korean. (Again this is due to the proximity of Asia)

"DUde, First of all go anywere in gatineau or hull, any shop,talk to them in english people will be able to understand ya and talk back to you"

Well I have first hand experience with this actually. I don't speak alot of french, and this is mainly due to my upbringing of having an english speaking mother. I was in Quebec a few years ago and got lost. I went into a gas bar to ask someone for directions. They looked at me, and refused to help me because I didn't speak french. I know this because thats what they told me. To be honest, in Ontario aprox 80% of the population DOES speak both official languages.

Maybe those places that you went to and spoke french, and the employee(s) didn't "understand a thing and wouldn't bother to try", well maybe they couldn't speak french. Same goes over in Quebec. alot of people can't speak english.

I know working in retail can be a pain, especially when you get some customer come up to you and starts to speak french, I explain to them that I don't speak french, and they get pissed off, and then say in PERFECT english "I'll go somewhere were people speak french"

That is pure iggnorance.

Toronto doesn't NEED french because they are not directly boardering Quebec. This whole french/english thing has to do with PROXIMITY to provinces.

This ain't no bullshit it's the honest truth. I drive in ONTARIO and see all signs in english and french. I goto Quebec and not ONE sign is written in ENGLISH

Explain to me than why signs do not have to be written in english in Quebec, but they need to be in both languages in Ontario. If we had only english signs in Ontario the french would be the FIRST people to raise a fuss about it. Obviously in Quebec english people don't have any rights, becasue if they did, the signs would be in both languages. I rest my case! thank you!

 
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^^^ Isn't New Brunswick the only "official" bilingual province? As far as I know, every province's official language is English with the exception of Quebec which is French.

Winnipeg has a French section to their city. Cross the Red River at Boulevard Provencher and you in a predominantly French speaking area of the city.

I do agree with you guys as to why signs aren't in both languages. If Canada wants to recognize and celebrate the fact we are a bilingual country, the least we could do is accommodate everyone.

And I agree, it is frustrating. I've traveled to Quebec three times. I went there on a short exchange and sometimes I'd forget and speak English and some people would get mad at me. When I apologize in French, they are surprised, but still somewhat offended...

 
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i am not part of ottawa's region, but its only fair to have multilingual advertising in ottawa, some people get pissed off in london that there isn't multilingualism(is that even a word?) for the french that reside here...

my gf is multilinguistic(i like when she talks dirty in french to me) Que est tu papa?...lol

i think being a country with two official languages, that the bordering provinces to quebec should have both translations for everything...but i have no regard for separatists....i know the history, and i have no problem with sharing languages....

but for the separatists, triumph the comic dog said it best,
"...so you two are separatists eh, you hear that sound"
"no"
"well thats the sound of no one giving a $hit"

i am sorry if i offended anyone, but seriously the bloc quebecois can shove it

 
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I dont know about Ontario's official status, but Ottawa is Offially bilingual, meaning City job's and whatnot are all bilingual.
I think we as Canadians are going about the bilingual thing all wrong. Do something right or don't do it at all, not half-a55ed like it is right now. Every province/municipality should not be allowed to determine their own language laws. Make it official, everywhere. Teach both languages equally all across the country. Or say f-it and completely drop the official bilingualism.

 
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^werd