Canada in 1776

I take it the indigenous peoples of North America were for the most part treated with bigotry and cruelty throughout all this?

French and English have been spoken in Canada for over 300 years

So what! The Native Aboriginals tounge have been spoken for far longer.

and is part of Canada's identity.

Says who? You? The Official Languages Act? The Multiculturalism Act? The Chinese? The East Indians? The Jews? The Poles? The Native Aboriginals?

Given that this thread refers to Canada in 1776, i see no problem with offering an historical view.

With reference to Chumly's bigotry…………….
I find, sadly, that bigotry such as Chumly has expressed………..
Nevertheless, i was grossly offended by Chumly's remarks, which i suggest are largely conditioned by ignorance. Given the large Asian population of Vancouver, i found it ironic. I can understand that he is ignorant of the importance of French to so many Canadians, but his remarks about "multi-culturalism" seem awfully dull-witted to me.
Chumly's remarks are not simply offensive, they sound rather hollow and uniformed.

Forget it Chumly, your entire tenor reeks of bigotry and i'm not going to waste any time or space pointing out in a detailed manner why bigotry is bigotry . . .

If you don't get, i doubt that anything i point out will, especially as i've already addressed your bigoted drivel in detail . . .

Thought you'd drag your ugly anti-francophone bigotry in here, eh?

I am not surprised, though, to learn that you are a rabid supporter of the Anglo-Saxon Protestant Ascendancy--the most pleasant and reasonable Canadians turn into snarling bigots on this topic.

If this drivel you're posting now is some lame attempt to explain away your hostility to any aspect of Canadian culture which does not derive from Anglo-Saxon Protestant sources, i'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt to assume that you're not really a bigot.

Chumly, you have provided the evidence of your own bigotry with your statements about les habitants and about the "multi-culturalism" in Canada.

Given that a significant proportion of the population of Canada today learns French from the cradle and routinely uses it on a quotidien basis, while living in a francophone, Catholic culture, i continue to see a problem with referring to that fact of life as cultural drivel.

As for "all popular languages," i've never made a single comment on the merit of the Official Languages Act. I would, rather, refer you to your own nation's constitution and the very political nature of the necessity of recognizing the culture and language of Québec. It is a fact of political life, just as the language and culture of the francophone is a fact of daily life in Québec.

That's what Quebec would have you believe due to forced language indoctrination and all that supposed separate culture drivel

Canada is also known as a multicultural society and this is also part of our identity.

Intrepid wrote:

and is part of Canada's identity.

Says who? You?
The Official Languages Act? The Multiculturalism Act? The Chinese? The East Indians? The Jews? The Poles? The Native Aboriginals?

That statement suggests that people in Québec are somehow closet anglophones who speak French on a whim, or are forced to do so by statute or indoctrination. They speak French because they learn it from infancy in their homes, as has been the case for nearly 400 years.

Quotidien means daily. Do you deny that the Québecois speak French on a daily basis?

After first carefully editing that statement of his, you responded as follows:

Intrepid is completely correct about the multi-cultural nature of Canada, and i would add that many Canadians are proud of that and boast of it.

If i had a toonie for every time i've heard that from a Canadian, i'd take us all out to dinner at a dim sum house on Spadina, or maybe one of the excellent Greek restaurants on the Danforth, or maybe that excellent little Italian place on Bloor, where most of the staff are native speakers of Italian. The folks next door are native speakers of Italian. They speak that language almost exclusively, except for the eldest surviving son, who understands it perfectly, but always responds in English, saving those occasions when he needs to explain something to his parents when their English fails them. The Greek family across the street speak Italian to them as well. The Italian population of Toronto is sufficiently large that there is an Italian language television station. There is a large Portugese community in Toronto as well (best damned wedding receptions you'd ever want to attend), which accounts for the Portugese language television station. The Chinese population is so large that there are several Mandarin newspapers--same for the Hindi language, due to the large population from the subcontinent. Those communities also have television stations which broadcast in their languages.

Surely, though, they're all just a product of indoctrination, the dupes of cultural drivel. When the Governor General read the Speech from the Throne today, in English and French (the latter no doubt because she is just a tool of indoctrination in cultrual drivel), one of Harper's points was that the Tories embrace Canada's multi-cultural heritage. But they've all been indoctrinated, haven't they.

More than 20% of the population of Canada are native speakers of French, whether or not you are charmed by the prospect. They've been here, speaking French and attending the Catholic church, for much longer than the Anglo-Saxon Protestant Ascendancy has been here. Too bad, so sad, you need to get over it. That constitutes an historical reality which is translated directly into a present reality, once again, whether or not you like it.

That statement suggests that people in Québec are somehow closet anglophones who speak French on a whim, or are forced to do so by statute or indoctrination. They speak French because they learn it from infancy in their homes, as has been the case for nearly 400 years.

Quotidien means daily. Do you deny that the Québecois speak French on a daily basis?

After first carefully editing that statement of his, you responded as follows:

Intrepid is completely correct about the multi-cultural nature of Canada, and i would add that many Canadians are proud of that and boast of it.

If i had a toonie for every time i've heard that from a Canadian, i'd take us all out to dinner at a dim sum house on Spadina, or maybe one of the excellent Greek restaurants on the Danforth, or maybe that excellent little Italian place on Bloor, where most of the staff are native speakers of Italian. The folks next door are native speakers of Italian. They speak that language almost exclusively, except for the eldest surviving son, who understands it perfectly, but always responds in English, saving those occasions when he needs to explain something to his parents when their English fails them. The Greek family across the street speak Italian to them as well. The Italian population of Toronto is sufficiently large that there is an Italian language television station. There is a large Portugese community in Toronto as well (best damned wedding receptions you'd ever want to attend), which accounts for the Portugese language television station. The Chinese population is so large that there are several Mandarin newspapers--same for the Hindi language, due to the large population from the subcontinent. Those communities also have television stations which broadcast in their languages.

Surely, though, they're all just a product of indoctrination, the dupes of cultural drivel. When the Governor General read the Speech from the Throne today, in English and French (the latter no doubt because she is just a tool of indoctrination in cultrual drivel), one of Harper's points was that the Tories embrace Canada's multi-cultural heritage. But they've all been indoctrinated, haven't they.

More than 20% of the population of Canada are native speakers of French, whether or not you are charmed by the prospect. They've been here, speaking French and attending the Catholic church, for much longer than the Anglo-Saxon Protestant Ascendancy has been here. Too bad, so sad, you need to get over it. That constitutes an historical reality which is translated directly into a present reality, once again, whether or not you like it.

That statement suggests that people in Québec are somehow closet anglophones who speak French on a whim, or are forced to do so by statute or indoctrination. They speak French because they learn it from infancy in their homes, as has been the case for nearly 400 years.

Quotidien means daily. Do you deny that the Québecois speak French on a daily basis?

After first carefully editing that statement of his, you responded as follows:

Intrepid is completely correct about the multi-cultural nature of Canada, and i would add that many Canadians are proud of that and boast of it.

If i had a toonie for every time i've heard that from a Canadian, i'd take us all out to dinner at a dim sum house on Spadina, or maybe one of the excellent Greek restaurants on the Danforth, or maybe that excellent little Italian place on Bloor, where most of the staff are native speakers of Italian. The folks next door are native speakers of Italian. They speak that language almost exclusively, except for the eldest surviving son, who understands it perfectly, but always responds in English, saving those occasions when he needs to explain something to his parents when their English fails them. The Greek family across the street speak Italian to them as well. The Italian population of Toronto is sufficiently large that there is an Italian language television station. There is a large Portugese community in Toronto as well (best damned wedding receptions you'd ever want to attend), which accounts for the Portugese language television station. The Chinese population is so large that there are several Mandarin newspapers--same for the Hindi language, due to the large population from the subcontinent. Those communities also have television stations which broadcast in their languages.

Surely, though, they're all just a product of indoctrination, the dupes of cultural drivel. When the Governor General read the Speech from the Throne today, in English and French (the latter no doubt because she is just a tool of indoctrination in cultrual drivel), one of Harper's points was that the Tories embrace Canada's multi-cultural heritage. But they've all been indoctrinated, haven't they.

More than 20% of the population of Canada are native speakers of French, whether or not you are charmed by the prospect. They've been here, speaking French and attending the Catholic church, for much longer than the Anglo-Saxon Protestant Ascendancy has been here. Too bad, so sad, you need to get over it. That constitutes an historical reality which is translated directly into a present reality, once again, whether or not you like it.