Of course, “all our predicaments were self-inflicted; all we had to do to avoid being cheap-labourized was to espouse the ‘protestant work «ethic»’, become english, and dump the scatholic religion”.

Segregation against the blacks was used by the ruling classes to divide the proletariat and prevent them from organizing and securing their natural rights.

Up here, we did not have (much) blacks, the indians were sufficiently a different civilization to not matter much, so the french were kept separate.

Just like the blacks in the US.

None of you guys know what really happened so none of your opinions are worth anything.

I, for one, know the entire story, and I am good friend of Eric's. I read all the emails, there was so much miscommunication, it's not even funny.

People really should stop putting so much stock into emails and start having conversations with eachother, like, back in the old day, when we SPOKE to eachother instead of post inane comments on a fucking idiot's website.

Et au passage, je suis complètement bilingue, née et éduquée dans une école de souche française à Montréal, alors ne commencez même pas avec vos histoires dànglos avec le cul coincée.

Merci et aurevoir.

You should learn to earn respect instead of assume it will be given to you.

I'll be the first to point out the wrongs but let's be real also.

Je ne fais pas de généralisation abusive à l'égard des anglos (comme tu le fais). Il y a du bon monde dans toutes les cultures, ainsi que des gens qui ne font pas très bonne figure, pour diverses raisons. Caricaturer les gens d'une autre culture, c'est ne pas réfléchir, c'est avoir une pensée grossière qui ne mérite même pas d'être débattue.

Il faut savoir faire la différence entre les individus, et les agissements collectifs d’un groupe. Je ne décris que les agissements du groupe, car les individus varient immensément.

@ Jean Bof, des indépendantistes comme toi qui prétendent être agressifs et prêts è se battre pour la “nation” ne m’impressionnent pas. Vous seriez les premiers à faire dans vos culottes dans un contexte de guerre. Vantard va!

You would be surprised how, all along Canada’s military history, how much the frogs kick arse.

@ Jean Bof, des indépendantistes comme toi qui prétendent être agressifs et prêts è se battre pour la "nation" ne m'impressionnent pas. Vous seriez les premiers à faire dans vos culottes dans un contexte de guerre. Vantard va!

People from the UK are no worse than anybody else. (And they have the BBC, great shows!)

Je ne fais pas de généralisation abusive à l'égard des anglos (comme tu le fais). Il y a du bon monde dans toutes les cultures, ainsi que des gens qui ne font pas très bonne figure, pour diverses raisons. Caricaturer les gens d'une autre culture, c'est ne pas réfléchir, c'est avoir une pensée grossière qui ne mérite même pas d'être débattue.

I think that all of us lackadaisical sesquipedalians should just fuck off this subject until next year, when the great void of July comes to us once again...

Come to my blog in French. You will learn and, like I used to say : Vous aurez beaucoup de plaisir a avoir ma langue dans votre bouche.

PJCA

It’s ok, we know Jean is ill Enkidu, there’s no need to be ashamed of him, he does not represent the majority of Francophones we know…thank goodness… :)

Yeah, thank goodness because if all were as rabid as I am, there would have been no english in North America for centuries!

Setting aside the fact that there are already two commuter train lines serving laval, if you look at a map of the area, it seems clear that the proposed bridge would be most useful to people living in north shore Terrebonne and Mascouche, since eastern Laval is mostly unpopulated. And the next proposed train line will terminate in exactly those communities.

If the line to Mascouche passed through eastern Laval, it could have been implemented in a matter of months, instead of the current boondoggle where a new rail line will have to be built, and special seldom-seen before (so very expensive) dual-mode locomotives along with totally new rolling stock ordered.
Not to mention operating in a busy rail corridor (CN mainline to northern Québec) as opposed to a lightly used line.

Jean…you can deny its “gimme gimme” by claiming we get a bigger bang for our buck but the state of our roads alone belies that statement. And it is a fact…Quebecers, as individuals, are the highest taxed population in North America….

Unlike the anglo-saxons, we are not much annoyed by high taxes, because we don’t believe that government is bad (no magna carta, remember?)

and we aren’t getting much bang for our buck…again I point out our infrastructure is a mess.

Our infrastructure is fine for the amount of money we put in them. It is just that we are unable to tax the trucks that run through Québec to the amount required to pay for the damage they cause to roads.

Also, what is this thread about, again?