And "anglo radio station" was polite. That station is quite known for it's race-baiting and claiming anglophones are oppressed by the "French fascists" or whatever, if I remember well.
Anglophones are being oppressed in Quebec, as is everyone who is not a Francophone. It's just that Anglos aren't used to being among the oppressed in North America.
Nonsense. They aren't oppressed, they are just not the majority.
Tell that to the language police.Immigrants to Quebec are not given a choice of which language their children must learn at school. As you yourself note, children of mixed Franco-Anglo marriages are automatically considered francophones as part of Quebec's policy of forced cultural assimilation. If I were to marry a Quebec francophone woman and move to Quebec to be with her, until I attained Canadian citizenship our children would barred from the public English language schools. Only French would be offered our children. If I went into the retail business there, I'd have no choice but to make the signage have French and have it be three times larger than any other language, even if I were operating a Carolina-style barbeque place (or a restaurant offering some other non-French ethnic cuisine.) When Italian restaurants can get in trouble for using the word pasta on their menu, something is rotten in the province of Quebec.
I'll grant that as far as oppression is concerned, on a scale of 0 to 10, Quebec's is only a 1 or 2, yet it is oppression nonetheless. I'll also grant that like many oppressions, that perpetrated by Quebec's francophones is a reaction to the oppression they received in earlier times. But that only explains it, not excuses it.
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