J'aime MR et sa population du WI. La seule place ou ça semble justifié de ne pas être capable de s'exprimer dans la langue principale !? Je vous rappèle qu'au Québec c'est le français. En tout cas en dehors de votre petit ghetto du WI. C'est 100 fois plus wrong un québécois qui parle pas français qu'un québécois qui parle pas anglais. C'est comme si je déménagais à Toronto et que je m'obstinait à pas apprendre l'anglais parce que "le français est une langue officielle du Canada".
Nobody is talking about refusing to learn/speak French. That isn't the point. The point is when the government and it's wings start systematically making it more and more difficult to receive services we've historically always been given, it becomes hateful and anglophones start resenting it, and the people who support it.
The same thing happens in Ontario with Franco-Ontarians. In many regions, especially in Eastern Ontario, they have historic rights granted to them regarding receiving certain services in French. Even if they speak English and have no trouble doing so, as francophones they prefer to receive the service in their mother tongue. When said services get harder and harder to come by in French, they get upset. See what happens in communities like Cornwall and the Prescott and Russell United Counties, and even East Ottawa to an extent, when the francophone populations begin seeing a decline in their ability to receive French services, some of them choose to speak up about it, as is their right.
Toronto is a bad example for you to use. Much of what Toronto is today is due to English Canadians and immigrants that moved directly into English Canada. Montreal, on the other hand, is not a solely French Canadian/Québécois construction. Anglophone Montrealers contributed significantly to the development of Montreal and for centuries helped build it up. Quebec Nationalists have a penchant for revisionist history and like to ignore this fact.
And what if I said "J'aime Québec et sa population francophone, les seuls gens qui pensent que c'est justifié de ne pas être capable de s'exprimer dans la langue principale de leur pays. Je vous rappelle qu'au Canada (et l'Amérique du Nord, et le monde entier en fait) c'est l'anglais."
That probably wouldn't make sense to you because in your eyes the borders are provincial, because that is what benefits you personally, as a francophone. But to anglophones, the borders are national (Canada-wide) or international (Global), because that is what is beneficial to them. So the significant difference in perspective is why we're having this discussion and why after hundreds of years anglophones and francophones haven't come to a settled consensus yet.
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