[Arctic_Menace]

I'm going to out on a limb here and suggest that maybe Tman1 feels similarly to me about how retarded it is that Quebec gets special treatment for being French which only been a money and infrastructure drain on Canada in order to appease a minority and anger many in other regions of the country. If this hadn't been the case and French hadn't been allowed to continue, we'd definitely have less political headaches and quagmires.

I however, think that Canada should have listened to the Quebecois back in the day and created a true Canadian identity rather than a British copy-cat. If only immigration and language spread out westward equally, then Canada would ultimately be the better for it.

[BartSimpson]

The problem with letting the Quebeckers build a virtual wall around their language and culture is that they end up separating themselves all the more from Canada. It's similar to the BS in the USA of 20 years ago when black activists were trying to say that ghetto dialects were their own language; Ebonics. Far from advancing equality, such a notion only served to highlight differences.

The French language in Canada can only continue to exist if the force of government is employed to coerce people into using it. I'm sorry, but that's just pathetic and such a notion has no place in a supposedly free country.

Let people speak what they want and let them vote with their wallets for the businesses they wish to use.

But, of course, the Francophones already know that in a truly free and equitable situation the days of the French language in North America would be numbered.