Our French-Canadian compatriots
September 5, 2009 9:07 pm UncategorizedStill think that they are the poor oppressed victims of history, so they have the right to be bigots and assholes.
MONTREAL – At least now he knows how to say “Quelle heure est-il?”
Muhammad Ahmad Munir, a master’s student from Pakistan studying at McGill University, was kicked off the No. 66 bus at 6:45 Friday morning after he asked the driver what the time was in English.
“I got on the bus and I didn’t have a watch, so I asked the driver for the time,” he said. “She started talking in French and I didn’t understand what she was saying.”
The 32-year-old native of Islamabad came to Montreal a few months ago to enroll in a master’s degree program in Islamic studies at McGill.
After twice telling the bus driver he didn’t understand French, she responded in English, saying: “I don’t speak English.”
“I then told her that she just showed me that she does speak English, and that’s when she really got angry.”
The police were called, the passengers forced off, and more.
I was told recently of German tourists in Ayer’s Cliff, Quebec who were loudly told off and followed out of the shop into tthe street by an irate Quebecoise who was offended they had asked for bread in her bakery <gasp!> in English!!
“O wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!” – Robert Burns
Quebec’s language legislation, which tells the Quebecois they have the right – the legal right - to work exlusively in French – has created a vast sheltered workshop. Occasionally it takes a foreigner unaccustomed to this folly hold up the mirror to them. As friend once said, why is it that shopkeepers in Ramallah (or Bangkok) can express themselves in English better than most Quebecois?
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Rob C :
Date: September 5, 2009 @ 10:24 PM
Crap like this is why Canada (excluding quebec) needs to have a referendum as to if WE want quebec to remain within confederation. Some people say this kind of thing is caused by a FEW radicals , I call bullshit. The freeloading population of quebec have been on a free ride for so long they believe it is their
“entitlement”. Time for them go go.
Bec :
Date: September 5, 2009 @ 11:22 PM
This story just blew me away and frankly, embarrasses the he!! out of me that it has occurred in OUR country.
Our daughter, is currently vacationing in the Maritimes and originally was planning to fly to T.O., rent a car and drive on to the Maritimes.
The rental car people warned them of this issue and although our daughter has university french, certainly she was not comfortable with the risk of being lost and trying to get around with her french language skills.
Well as they say,c est la vie!
Quebec’s lose!
philanthropist :
Date: September 6, 2009 @ 1:02 AM
The Quebec Establishment now has exactly what it wants – a captive group of unilingual french speakers who will blame the ‘english’ for all the problems in the province.
French Canadians got sucked in by their leaders, their kids don’t learn english anymore and they are encouraged to be bitter towards non-french, they’re unemployable anywhere else but Quebec.
Pat :
Date: September 6, 2009 @ 1:29 AM
The bottom line is that most of the world things that they are sick little shits, and that’s a fact.
They posture and prance around, not having any idea of just how pathetic they appear to all but the bitter French of Quebec.
johndoe124 :
Date: September 6, 2009 @ 7:53 AM
Well, at least Liberals now know where the authentic rednecks reside.