Amazing how the US government thinks US businesses have any standing in our country, after it wiped its ass with that trade treaty that wildly favoured them.
It is fucking wild. One might say it sounds like entitlement. But surely a “self-made man” like Donald Trump knows nothing of entitlement… /s
Lol they’re trying to mess with the Québécois. Good fucking luck with that.
I’m 100% with the Quebecois, get fucked USA, you don’t have jurisdiction here and you don’t get to dictate to us.
Edit: the US lacking bilingual packaging and documentation is an illegal barrier to our trade. They don’t even have an official language, so how can vis be a barrier to them. Maybe they should learn French.
They don’t even have an official language
They do now. Since March 1st.
Doesn’t diminish what you’ve said though.
Nobody even noticed
Americans who don’t speak English will begin to notice
A lot of people will notice when red states stop dropping other languages in schools next school year.
TIL
And that’s officially a trade barrier to our domestic francophone population!
No, absolutely not.
Just because some asshole in a round office says something doesn’t make it true. The US has no official language.
Non, absolument pas.
Ce n’est pas parce qu’un trou du cul dans un bureau rond dit quelque chose que ça devient vrai. Les États-Unis n’ont pas de langue officielle.
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If there’s one thing the French are good at, it’s resistance
I’m pretty sure it’s one of the main reasons the right has always tried to crack jokes and minimize French influence in the U.S.
Wouldn’t want the Americana to see their cousins have big brass balls and will torch anything in their way if their ruling class fucks around too much.
But if it is the last barrier to reaching an agreement, how long will the rest of Canada support Quebec? This is being done to test our confederacy.
Edit: Not supporting Trump, just being realistic about his intentions.
Why would we ever let a foreign government choose our languages? Seems it’ll be a common issue for them.
It might be, we don’t know all the details yet (they called it an irritant) but so far all these global tariffs have disproportionally hurt Canada more than other countries. I can see the US smoothing things over with others but keeping this as a point of contention with Canada.
Well be fine seeking out new partners. America isn’t trust worthy anymore.
I agree, we’re facilitating interprovincial trade, we have many allies in a similar position with which we can strike new deals. The US is looking to cause some damage though.
We’ll never stop standing with Quebec. No foreign power is going to dictate our culture. Canada strong.
ROC opposing Québec because of language laws? That’s the exact definition of Canadian culture, our confederacy was tempered by this conflict since forever.
Once again, they are simply reinforcing Canada’s identity by their uninformed talking points.
Were these idiots dropped on their heads as a baby? In what world can one country dictate the laws of another country without there being a war?
They’re trying it on here in Australia too. The USA pharmaceutical industry is lobbying the USA administration by claiming that our PBS, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which allows us to have affordable medication and a safety net, is harming their bottom line because they’re required to negotiate with the Australian Government in order to supply their medication at a negotiated price. Must be tough to have to negotiate with adults.
In what world can one country dictate the laws of another country without there being a war?
We are talking about a country that demands regulatory concessions in foreign countries, beyond those of which are afforded to said countries’ domestic businesses.
I was curious about that whole “Canada doesn’t want US banks” thing that started in the beginning of our deranged trade war, and it’s really stupid. Opening a bank there is oh so hard for our poor widdle conglomerate banks because… stricter regulations and an unwillingness to make 35% of their Canadian subsidiary publicly owned.
That’s it. Their banks have to follow the same rules, and Trump thinks that’s unfair for us.
How arrogant of you to suggest that your entire country’s medical needs are somehow more important than the financial well-being of some shareholders
Easy fix.
Hire better negotiators.
In what world can one country dictate the laws of another country
Welcome to American exceptionalism.
Buddy, they’ve been doing this for ages. Certainly ever since the end of WWII. Sometimes diplomatically, other times via interference, and when that fails, militarily. We’re just kinda waking up to it now because we haven’t seen as much of the second and third methods used against us before. But yeah, this isn’t about stupidity, this has been their policy for a long time.
How does Australia’s pharmaceutical industry compare to Canada’s? We have a lot of generics here in Canada… I’m curious whether Australia would benefit from a similar stance that favours more white label production, or if Australia is more invested in the development side and feels like it needs to maintain more strict/homogenized w/ US laws to keep them as a seller and recoup on its investments.
I had no idea, so I looked … I still have no idea. The dollar numbers tossed around contradict each other and vary wildly, to the point of being absurd.
I don’t know what the policy on generics is, but as I understand it, the PBS negotiates on our behalf to subsidize medication that would otherwise be completely unaffordable.
When I get to a computer with a screen that’s bigger than my hand, I’ll have a squiz at the Australian Bureau of Statistics to see if I can learn more.
Edit: Just came across this gem:
Basically anything I buy at the grocery store has between two and five languages. It’s not hard America.
21% of Americans are illiterate.
54% have a literacy BELOW A SIXTH GRADE LEVEL.
Are you smarter than a 5th grader was a rhetorical question.
(For the 54% a rhetorical question is … fuckit nevermind.)
How about the 43% of us who are somehow PROUD about never reading a book
They use Facebook.
How long till DOGE sues Meta to drop the ‘book’ part…
That’s impressive, do you have a source?
It does vary slightly by year/source, but not much. Overall is around 80% literate. ~54% at 6th grade level and below. And ~20 functionally illiterate.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-reveals-us-adult-literacy-rates-state-2010175
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy-rates-by-state
https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025literacy-statistics
https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-and-lowest-adult-literacy-rates/
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/reading/2024/g4_8/
That’s depressing. I found it’s 4% of illiterate for the 18-64 years old who started school in France. https://www.anlci.gouv.fr/ressources/les-nouveaux-chiffres-de-lillettrisme-en-france-avril-2024/
Time to learn more french.
Better off with Spanish my friend. Many more scenarios where Spanish is useful and English is unusable than with french speaking areas. I am biased though, i’ve worked for french companies and my wife natively speaks Spanish.
Osti de tabarnak de calice!
Seriously though, this is a coincidence that he says this at the same time Carney says he wants Québec to roll back law 96.
Our French language protection laws is nobody’s business but our own.
CBC’s coverage says his problem isn’t with the law itself:
Blanchet’s criticism follows Carney’s remarks Monday that a government led by him would act as an intervenor at the Supreme Court of Canada should it ever hear a challenge to Bill 96.
Carney said he would do so not because he has a problem with the legislation, but because he opposes any province’s pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause to pass laws.
Wait until they find out about China.
According to him, Canada and Quebec have no advantage in making compromises on their language policies, nor do Italians, Dutch, Germans, etc. He pointed out that the United States did not ask its other partners for such compromises.
Illustrating the definition of discrimination.
That’s it from now on the official languages of canada will be french and deep newfy
You might not be able to understand french but at least there are coursed and translation books
If there is ever an invasion we will use deep-newfie code talkers, the baymen are unintelligible except to one another
I lived there as a baby, and learned to speak there. After we moved to the US, my mother forced me into speech therapy for years.
The residential schools claim another one, shaking my head
Hey we gotta allow Hoserish still, eh? The US can take right off, you knobs. <snort> Good Day.
Carney has said the same.
PP, of course, is willing to talk about it.
Vive le Quebec. Go get 'em.
Should counter with the USA using the imperial system.
As a French French, I have the feeling Don picked the wrong fight…
Tell the demented rapist and his toadies to eat shit.
Manges de la merde, gros sans-dessein orange.
I’m calling it, he’s going to say the same about the requirements to use the metric system.
Also, why does he care about trade barriers? I thought his goal was to economically isolate the US from the rest of the world. It sure is what all his actions and measures have been best at accomplishing so far.
They want maximum trade barriers going in and minimal trade barriers going out.
It’s just straight up bullying. Always has been.
This is what happens when people who, at a primal level, think the world is a zero sum game. Who never learned how cooperation results in bigger rewards.
He wants to isolate is, but we can’t isolate him! I guess if you get your head far enough up your own arse it makes sense?
