The Quebec government is proposing an increase in tuition fees for international and out-of-province students attending English-language universities as a way to protect the French language.
The Quebec government is proposing an increase in tuition fees for international and out-of-province students attending English-language universities as a way to protect the French language.
I don’t really see much evidence of the “rest of Canada” wanting to meld culture and language. Other than french immersion schools and the occasional food truck serving up poutine there’s not much of Quebec culture or French language that you’ll find outside of Quebec.
If they don’t protect what they have, a hundred years from now Canada will be solely an English speaking country and poutine will be covered in nacho cheese.
I mean, I don’t have any stake in it one way or the other coming from BC but I understand why they feel protective.
Doesn’t it seem like the stronghold mentality is somewhat self defeating, though? I’m also in BC and there’s not much evidence of French culture around here, it’s true. I’m more likely to encounter Tagalog or Mandarin than French, and would have more opportunity to speak those if learned, but not because those languages are indigenous to the area.