English whiners | Montreal Journal

Have you made your New Year's resolutions? I will do. It's not about losing weight or drinking more green tea.

My resolutions for 2024 are to continue nailing French. To answer the heads of the Anglos who want a bilingual Quebec. And to constantly remind whining columnists Montreal Gazette Stop playing the victim.

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For the past few days, the Gazette The oppressed Anglo has already published not one, not two, not three, but four columns complaining about the plight of the poor. And that's only the first week of January!

First reading: Not short of expressions of alarm, always on the brink of lexical apoplexy, Doula Trimonis speaks of the “constant attacks” of the Legault government, which uses the language issue as “a weapon” against allophones and Anglos. “Threatened” to the extent that they feel they “have no future here anymore”.

Doula Trimonis hopes the government will understand by 2024, “Montreal is proudly and officially French but never French because the city is English, Spanish, Arabic, Greek, Vietnamese, Italian, Creole, Armenian, Punjabi, Portuguese. »

Madam Trimonis, read me carefully. Montreal has never been officially and unofficially French. Rome is like Italy. Athens is like Greece. And because Toronto is fluent and monolingual in English.

Second reading: Bill Brownstein is “fearful” that Canadians, Americans and even people from “all over the world” won't be welcome in Quebec after hearing about the franchising clauses.

“Cynics have raised the prospect of a ban targeting non-intermediate French-speaking tourists.”

On the linguistic front “clouds” and “storm” can have a negative impact on Montreal's economy, such as a “brain drain” and the city can even become “a backwater”!

In short, the seven plagues of Egypt. The only thing missing is frogs falling from the sky.

Third Text: Alison Hanes asserts that unlike the infamous Legault government and its “populist hatred,” Quebecers are “inclusive” because they love, accept, and celebrate bilingualism. In downtown Montreal, it's great that residents speak to each other in both languages!

Fourth speech: Former minister Clifford Lincoln demands that graduates of English-speaking universities speak loud and clear about CAQ activities. Correct! I am a 1987 graduate of McGill. I applaud the government's request that graduates leave McGill to order smoked meat and poutine at Schwartz's.

Lincoln denounced the CAQ as “relentlessly and vindictively targeting the English minority”, “mean” and “petty orders”, “rabid partiality”, “hostility towards a linguistic group” and “abusive demands”.

“Enough is enough,” he wrote in French.

Master in our house

During the holidays, former PQ leader Jean-François Lisée went to Club Med in Charlevoix. “There were times when we were unable to provide service in French, including at reception and the ski rental shop,” he wrote in X.

You can't be served in French in Charlevoix, woe!

Meanwhile, are Quebec's Anglos complaining of mistreatment?

This is obscene!