Comments on: Camille Laurin’s Bitches

By: xpat

xpat — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:38:16 +0000

I second the comment by Roger.

By: A U.S. Laurin

A U.S. Laurin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:57:40 +0000

As a Laurin living in the U.S., I’m proud to be related to Camille. I really hate to see the French and French Canadian culture die out.

By: Num

Num — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:38:03 +0000

Interesting !

Sorry but my answer will be in french, I don’t think I could explain my point in english.

Vraiment intéressant comme blogue et comme sujet !

Comment dire ? Je crois au renforcement de la langue française au Québec en association avec l’anglais et non pas en confrontation.

Je trouve dommage de voir plusieurs séparatistes renier tout ce qui est anglais simplement pour “prouver” leur “loyauté”…

Montréal ne sera jamais “français ou anglais”… Mais elle gagnera sûrement à être les deux !

Je repasserai certainement pratiquer my listening comprehension sur ce blogue !

Bravo !

By: La Belette lachinoise

La Belette lachinoise — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:46:17 +0000

I’ve been to the States many times (CA, MO, NY, Maine, Mass…). I’ve also been to the UK. Why is it that the only place I ever got a negative reaction to my speaking English with a slight accent was in Edmonton?

By: Multiplillet du 29 avril « Renart L’éveillé / Carnet résistant

Multiplillet du 29 avril « Renart L’éveillé / Carnet résistant — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:29:03 +0000

[...] rester dans l’univers politique, Angry French Guy démontre ici avec brio les avantages économiques et culturels d’avoir bilinguisé Montréal avec la loi [...]

By: La Belette lachinoise

La Belette lachinoise — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:20:09 +0000

Well hello there! I’m the Weasel from Lachine. I’m an almost trilingual francophone who happens to work as a translator. I’ve spent most of my life in the Greater Montreal area, but I’m moving to the anglo part of Lachine Ssaturday (yikes!). My spouse is a bilingual Anglo. We met on the Internet.

I think one reason the unemployment rate is going down is the fact that with the baby bust and many boomers retiring, there is beginning to be a shortage of workers — except it’s not as bad as in Alberta. Yet businesses are getting desperate: they have difficulty staffing technical and trades positions. I read somewhere 100,000 such jobs are unfilled.

Mrs. the President of Latvia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaira_V%C4%AB%C4%B7e-Freiberga is a former University of Montreal professor of psychology; she lived in Canada a long time and she speaks many languages. I think she is someone to be proud of. Maybe that’s in Montreal she learnt about Law 101? By the way, Camille Laurin was a psychiatrist.

I’ll add you blog to my blogroll. I wrote an entry about “les Anglais” this week-end. BTW, your English is pretty good! I hope mine is too… :oops:

By: deprenyl

deprenyl — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:59:15 +0000

In Latvia we have a language that had lost its place in society after 50 years of russification. The language law simply reinstates the rights of the Latvian language as the state language. It doesn’t really go much further than that. It sets up certain requirements for people to use it who otherwise would not.

It is analogous to Bill 101 that was passed in Quebec in order to restitute the rights of the French language under the overwhelming majority of an English-speaking continent. It worked in Quebec in order to restore the use of French in the public sphere. It’s doing exactly that in Latvia. It’s not a hardship to learn a language. I think it’s an enrichment.

http://www.president.lv/pk/content/?cat_id=2189&art_id=851&lng=de

By: quebecois separatiste

quebecois separatiste — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:19:31 +0000

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

By: angryfrenchguy

angryfrenchguy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:59:49 +0000

I don’t know where she stood on the issues of language but isn’t it interesting that Vaira Vike-Freiberga, the president of Latvia from 1999 to 2007 was a graduate of McGill who thought psychology at the Université de Montréal from 1965 to 1998?

By: Acajack

Acajack — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:47:45 +0000

“I’m sick and tired of hearing francophone Quebeckers say they want to be a “normal” nation. WTF is a “normal” nation if Quebeckers aren’t one already?”

I’ve given numerous examples of what seems to be “normal” pretty much everywhere else in the world. Now, I recognize that every country’s situation is unique, but perhaps if Quebec’s situation were a bit more “normal” in the global sense, we wouldn’t have a persistent separatist movement in this province that keeps coming back to the well time and time again.