": That is the most insane piece of BS ever written in this talk page. Antoine: the Bloc, and all Quebec provincial political parties advocate integration of all non-French speakers TO JOIN QUEBEC SOCIETY. There are two HOST societies in Canada. There are two nations with the political instruments to welcome immigrants: one speaking English all across Canada and the other speaking French in Quebec.  Naturally, that means there is overlap and competition INSIDE Quebec. In Montreal, the two main languages overlap very much, hence the need to insure that immigrants integrate Quebec first, otherwize for certain they would simply follow the largest path of integration, that of the great Anglo-Canado-American melting pot that promises gold and free sex for everyone. That's right, so that our immigrants, those WE INVITED TO LIVE HERE WITH US AS EQUAL CITIZENS, do not just assimilate to English and forever remain stranger to our reality, we voted for their right to learn French and become Québécois in every sense of the word. That is what the Bloc stands for but you will not read this in English language media very often.  
 : By the way, Montreal is by LAW a French speaking city on top of being a city where a majority of the people speak French in their homes. As for the high English-French bilingualism, this should convince anyone that Franco-Quebecers are not the ones to be told they are closed-minded, but some powerful agents use the media they own to continue dividing us, Quebecers, along ethnic lines. I suggest you take your American grid of analysis and trash it. It will only be useful in the USA. In Quebec, you'll have to construct a new grid of analysis, otherwize you are certain to reach the wrong conclusions no matter how accurate you think your data is.  
 : Instead of being proud of millions of people being integrated, in English, to American culture, you should ask yourself: why is it that there is so much poverty in Mexico that by the millions THEY ARE FORCED to abandon their homes to go work in a foreign country?  
 : Only a century ago, there were so many Franco-Quebecers doing the same, moving to the States for work, and once there not wanting to learn English, not wanting to become ""real"" Americans, that they were called the ""Chinese of the East"" by the people of New England. Why were these people migrating in mass? And why did this mass migration from Quebec to the USA stop by the 1930s? The answer is that between 1850 and 1930, Quebec had progressed and was now a more urban and industrial society that could provide jobs to its own people on its own territory. (It will be the same for Mexico in time.) Sure, the new industries brought us jobs, but they were jobs where you had to speak English to a British, British-Canadian or American boss who was only there for the cheap labour. But at least our people could stay home and go abroad only WHEN THEY WANTED TO instead of because there was no other alternative. Franco-Quebecers then decided that if there was a place where it was 1) legitimate and 2) possible to build a French-speaking nation with all the modern bells and whistle (that includes immigration policies), it was in Quebec. So one day in 1977, we made it a right of every person in Quebec to: 

 : # have all government branches, professional corporations, employee associations and enterprises doing business in Quebec communicate with them in French. 
 : # The right of persons to speak French in deliberative assemblies. 
 : # The right of workers to carry on their activities in French. 
 : # The right of consumers to be informed and served in French. 
 : # The right of persons eligible for instruction in Quebec to receive that instruction in French. 

 Because in 1977, NONE OF THIS WAS ASSURED even though 80% of the people spoke French as their mother tongue. Two centuries of British and eventually British Canadian rule over Quebec made the French language useless for anything other than talking about hockey with your friends or saying dirty things to your wife. Unbelievable? I find it too. I was born in 1979 and I was always able to go around Montreal never speaking any other language but French. It's hard to believe that such a freedom was only recently acquired. 

 But the world is stupid. Very soon, we will have to write this into law: 

 # The right of persons to breath clean air 
 # The right of persons to drink fresh water 
 # The right of persons to eat food that comes from mother nature 
 # Etc. Etc. ad nauseam 

 That's how stupid man can be: he only reacts when things have degenerated to the point that the situation shames us all.    

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