@FrogQ Not Even Worth The Effort.

@FrogQ Here's a helpful tip for your life: If you're nice and understanding of other people's views, you can usually get them to be sympathetic to what you hold dear.

Your above email will not convince many people on this site. It'll actually harden them against your views.

Quoting a law designed in 1977 to protect culture ? For your information, in 1977, manufacturing was the main form of employment in Quebec. The internet did not exist. Free trade did not exist. Most people in Quebec barely had a high school degree, but that was OK for employment back then.

A lot has changed.

A high school degree is almost the equivalent of a drop-out. The internet, english music, english tv, movies, business etc is predominant. Most employment is in the service industry - and most businesses need a market far beyond quebec to survive - so speaking english is key to survival of Quebec, and counter-intuitively - your culture.

Yet, what are the effects of your laws ? In the 2006 census, only 35% of french-quebecers were able to speak english. This despite the importance of the language on the global level. For one generation, that's OK - they can move to govt jobs and a sense of pride among the older french business owners, hiring only french. But as time goes by, it is less and less OK. We need the outside world to thrive, and to sell to them, you need english.

Anglophone quebecers were 80% able to speak french, according to the 2006 census.

We'll get the 2011 census language figures in a couple of months.

Your laws are marginalising the next generation - badly. 35% failure rate from high school. Few can speak english (35% there too). Not good.

Evolve or be marginalized.

You should know that learning a second language and being respectful of others does not mean the abandonment of your culture or your values, unless you choose to abandon it.

You wrote your stu-pid comment in englsh, so presumably you speak it well. Have you given up on your culture ? Of course not, nor should you. It's a rich and vibrant culture, when it is open and respectful.

However, englih has allowed you to search the internet (albeit not for enlightenment - instead you choose to leave moronic poorly thought-out comments on news websites), appreciate tv, movies, music, books etc in english, and maybe help in your employment.

You'll only lose your culture if choose to. You should also know that culture is ever-evolving. The world you live in and the kind of person you are and what you value is different from 1650, 1750, 1850, 1950 or 1977.....

If you try to freeze culture, you end up marginalising the people whose culture you are trying to freeze.

@GeorgeL_8301 well said George L i lived in plymouth uk for 24 years and we would help the french coming from france on the ferry and when i went to france they would certainly help me out getting direction in quimper in english, but here my goodness we are martians, paranoia at it's extreme here.