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20 Jun 2010, 7:15 pm

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Is there much difference between the French and English speaking parts of Canada?


As a French Canadian, I would say yes. We have our own music, movies, political views, history and swearing. We are more liberal and less religious. We have our own taboos (religion and money).



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20 Jun 2010, 8:04 pm

And Quebecers always want French put on everything and behave like spoilt children.



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20 Jun 2010, 8:16 pm

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And Quebecers always want French put on everything and behave like spoilt children.


If we don't put French on everything, we will no longer be a French community. That's just realistic.



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20 Jun 2010, 8:17 pm

Greenmouse wrote:
Tequila wrote:
And Quebecers always want French put on everything and behave like spoilt children.


If we don't put French on everything, we will no longer be a French community. That's just realistic.


So you want to impose your French doctrine on the rest of Canada? Somehow that doesn't seem fair to me when you consider that French is a minority language in most of the country.

I have no trouble with Quebec wanting to keep their language going. I just have a problem with forcing it on everyone else.

Even the real French can't speak it...



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20 Jun 2010, 11:24 pm

beautiful wilderness

massive amounts of snow

Eskimos

fur trapping

lots of white people

lumberjacks

deep COLD

restrictive gun control without Britains' extreme bias against self defense

socialized medicine without deficit

Actually punishing criminals instead of letting them off easy like some supposedly great European countries

hate crimes laws (wtf is up with that?!)

Can you tell I'm American?



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21 Jun 2010, 12:01 am

Brador

Molson

Moosehead

Montreal Forum

Saga

April Wine

Triumph

BTO

The Hip

The Hip

The Hip

Expo 69

Laronde

The Hip

Cops you don't want to joke around with (Montreal anyway)

Tortiere

Gordon Downie

The Hip

The Hip

Bob and Doug

Back Bacon

Getty Lee

Diamonds

Ice roads

Yukon Jack

The Hip

Alanis Morrisette

Nickelback

Loverboy (???? eeeeeewwwwe!)

Tom Cochran

Bruce Colburn

Sugar on snow

The Box

Saturday morning beer runs

Matchstick fence posts (Quebec)

Flat roofs

Forest fires you can smell all the way down here where I live

And, oh yeah! I almost forgot!

THE HIP!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! :twisted:

Good day all my fine friends from the GWN! Wish I could be there hosers! Thanks for all the great beer, great music, and good times over the years! Memories I will never forget.

Wait! Wait! I did forget a few things!

Red Green

Corporal Renfru

The Royal Canadian Air Farce

CBC

CHOM FM

The smell of smelting nickel in Sudbury (phew!)

The Hundredth Meridian

Bobby Ore

All you knobs and hosers

Bill Barilko and the Maple Leaf's curse

And THE TRAGICALLY HIP!! ! :lol:

BTW: I really like the Tragically Hip, I think they're really gonna go places one day. :wink:


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21 Jun 2010, 5:40 am

Crown Royal (Reserve). :heart:



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21 Jun 2010, 6:18 am

Tequila wrote:
And Quebecers always want French put on everything and behave like spoilt children.


I also have some things to say about that, but that's kept between my closest friends and I. I've sent you a PM about it. 8)

I don't want to get myself in hot water.


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21 Jun 2010, 2:05 pm

A reputation for friendliness, hospitableness and tolerance that isn't entirely deserved, but a reputation Canada has in juxtaposition with its neighbour, the US, due to what many people think of the US.



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21 Jun 2010, 2:12 pm

Hockey
Wannabe Americans



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21 Jun 2010, 2:25 pm

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Wannabe Americans


Huh? :roll:

Why do Americans from the U.S. think they everyone on earth wants to be like them? And why do so many of them forget the Canada IS in America? As far as I am concerned they ARE Americans, but not in the most popular sense of the term. Most I know wouldn't want to be known as we are. For our ARROGANCE. I was born and raised in the U.S. and have the utmost respect for our Canadian brethren, no matter what their heritage is. Their ancestors came to the West for the same reason ours did, with all the same hopes and dreams.

The Revolutionary War was over two hundred years ago! Give it a rest!


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21 Jun 2010, 2:32 pm

You know what I mean. It's at least so in BC and Ontario. I'm Kanuk(as my father calls it. Probably spelling it incorrectly) but my family came here from Newfoundland in the 20s or 30s. Newfies seem to be more like Irish people than Americans from the US so they're of the hook as are the people of Nova Scotia, Labrador, Quebec, the territories, the middle provinces, etc. The people in Winnipeg and the other middle provinces are somewhat like the midwesterners but not entirely. People from BC are like those you find in Oregon and Washington. People in Ontario are like those on the border area. Actually, I barely recognize a difference in the accents found in Ontario and BC in comparison to American accents.



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21 Jun 2010, 2:41 pm

ShenLong wrote:
You know what I mean. It's at least so in BC and Ontario. I'm Kanuk(as my father calls it. Probably spelling it incorrectly) but my family came here from Newfoundland in the 20s or 30s. Newfies seem to be more like Irish people than Americans from the US so they're of the hook as are the people of Nova Scotia, Labrador, Quebec, the territories, the middle provinces, etc. The people in Winnipeg and the other middle provinces are somewhat like the midwesterners but not entirely. People from BC are like those you find in Oregon and Washington. People in Ontario are like those on the border area. Actually, I barely recognize a difference in the accents found in Ontario and BC in comparison to American accents.


Ah! WELL THEN! YOU get to say it. To me though it's pretty arrogant and somewhat insulting when U.S. Americans say it. Yeah, I know what you mean now. :wink:

In a lot of ways, I'm a wannabe Canadian! :lol:


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21 Jun 2010, 2:43 pm

ShenLong wrote:
You know what I mean. It's at least so in BC and Ontario. I'm Kanuk(as my father calls it. Probably spelling it incorrectly) but my family came here from Newfoundland in the 20s or 30s. Newfies seem to be more like Irish people than Americans from the US so they're of the hook as are the people of Nova Scotia, Labrador, Quebec, the territories, the middle provinces, etc. The people in Winnipeg and the other middle provinces are somewhat like the midwesterners but not entirely. People from BC are like those you find in Oregon and Washington. People in Ontario are like those on the border area. Actually, I barely recognize a difference in the accents found in Ontario and BC in comparison to American accents.


I'm an American from The United States and I don't have an accent. ;)



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21 Jun 2010, 2:46 pm

Taupey wrote:
ShenLong wrote:
You know what I mean. It's at least so in BC and Ontario. I'm Kanuk(as my father calls it. Probably spelling it incorrectly) but my family came here from Newfoundland in the 20s or 30s. Newfies seem to be more like Irish people than Americans from the US so they're of the hook as are the people of Nova Scotia, Labrador, Quebec, the territories, the middle provinces, etc. The people in Winnipeg and the other middle provinces are somewhat like the midwesterners but not entirely. People from BC are like those you find in Oregon and Washington. People in Ontario are like those on the border area. Actually, I barely recognize a difference in the accents found in Ontario and BC in comparison to American accents.


I'm an American from The United States and I don't have an accent. ;)


That's what YOU think. I can see it in your post! :lol: Either that or you're mute!


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21 Jun 2010, 3:03 pm

MrXxx wrote:
Taupey wrote:
ShenLong wrote:
You know what I mean. It's at least so in BC and Ontario. I'm Kanuk(as my father calls it. Probably spelling it incorrectly) but my family came here from Newfoundland in the 20s or 30s. Newfies seem to be more like Irish people than Americans from the US so they're of the hook as are the people of Nova Scotia, Labrador, Quebec, the territories, the middle provinces, etc. The people in Winnipeg and the other middle provinces are somewhat like the midwesterners but not entirely. People from BC are like those you find in Oregon and Washington. People in Ontario are like those on the border area. Actually, I barely recognize a difference in the accents found in Ontario and BC in comparison to American accents.


I'm an American from The United States and I don't have an accent. ;)


That's what YOU think. I can see it in your post! :lol: Either that or you're mute!


You can read it in my post! :lmao: Oh yeah, where am I from in the US?