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Rick Perry Thinks Canada Is Not A Foreign Country

bikerdruid said:
no.
quebec is very much a part of canada.
quebeckers are canadian citizens.
quebeckers enjoy all the priviledges of being canadian.
quebeckers are subjects of the queen, like all other canucks.
(whether pardalis likes it, or not.)

canadians are not americans.
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Do you mind if I link to your post the next time the "Usaian", etc. nonsense pops up.

bikerdruid said:
canada is both a sovereign nation...
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Is that why you have Henry Hudson, Pierre Trudeau and Celine Dion on your currency? :p
 
lomiller said:
Quebec is the only part of Canada so insecure about it's language and culture that it needs laws to force people to take part in that culture.
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In a generation or two the words "Canadian culture" won't mean much of anything, and sucking up to the Queen won't help a bit. It's just going to be a word on a passport.

Just look the the history of submission of Canadian films to the Oscars:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._Academy_Award_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film

See a pattern? The last English Canadian movie was really an Indian movie. Canadians have won Oscars before, but for American movies.

With the language laws in place in Qc, we will still be speaking French and have our own culture.
 
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Bill Thompson said:
In the Seattle area, we get CBC on our cable line up and no one mentions that it is from a foreign country.
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Nobody tells you specifically that "Canadian Broadcast Corporation" is from a foreign country? Huh. Perhaps Comcast is overestimating its customers.
 
Pardalis said:
In a generation or two the words "Canadian culture" won't mean much of anything, and sucking up to the Queen won't help a bit. It's just going to be a word on a passport.

Just look the the history of submission of Canadian films to the Oscars:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._Academy_Award_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film

See a pattern? The last English Canadian movie was really an Indian movie. Canadians have won Oscars before, but for American movies.

With the language laws in place in Qc, we will still be speaking French and have our own culture.
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canadian culture is alive and well.
newfoundland culture, for example, is every bit as unique as quebec, and older.
(and if you have ever listened to a few newfies talking, they have their own language too.)
 
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Pardalis said:
In a generation or two the words "Canadian culture" won't mean much of anything,
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LOL Culture is a consequence of humans adapting to their surroundings.
It will change every every generation whether you want it to or not because those surroundings change, no law can prevent that.
 
bikerdruid said:
canadian culture is alive and well.
newfoundland culture, for example, is every bit as unique as quebec, and older.
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When you get pas the obfuscation of language, Newfies are a lot more distinctive than Quebecois. For that matter Western Canadians are more distinctive as well.
 
lomiller said:
When you get pas the obfuscation of language, Newfies are a lot more distinctive than Quebecois. For that matter Western Canadians are more distinctive as well.
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yes, we are.
i am an albertan, second generation canadian.*
my family came from newfoundland.

* newfoundland was its own dominion, when my grandparents immigrated to canada in 1905.
 
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Pardalis said:
With the language laws in place in Qc, we will still be speaking French and have our own culture.
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I sense a possible contradiction. If the Francophone culture in Quebec is so strong then why does it need language laws to protect it? If it is a strong and vibrant as you say, shouldn't it be able to stand on its own without intrusive language laws?
 
I fully support the right of Quebecers to separate from Canada. In fact, it would be a good idea to start shipping them overseas at the earliest opportunity. ;)
 
bikerdruid said:
actually, our money has the queen and dead prime ministers, but trudeau is not yet on a bill.
and....celine, who?
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If you rock your head back and glance skyward, you may view the tail end of the point (and jest) Unrepentant Sinner was making.

John Connally wept.
 
Pardalis said:
Because we're on an ocean of anglophones.
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So is Mexico. Does that country have language laws similar to those found in Quebec?

Also, again, if the culture is as strong and vibrant as you say then it ought not need any protection. It's strength and vibrancy should serve as all the protection needed. What differences does it make what language is spoken elsewhere? The fact that the language laws exists strikes me as a de facto statement that Francophones in Quebec are not as secure and confident in their culture as you contend.
 
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