Well, with supporters not only in the US but also in Canada having proven time and time again they are absolutely gullible and will listen to anything that supports their reality, it's not a surprise they would put this type of content out.
The number of lawyers in Montreal who are unilingual Anglos must be near zero. The number of Anglo lawyers in Montreal who can’t identify when someone is speaking French is ..there is no number small enough to quantify that.
I have absolutely no clue about Montreal culture despite it being where my parents emigrated to after leaving Ireland (my dad came to work on the St. Lawrence Seaway). I’ll have to make this a project.
I don’t agree with them 100%, but in general I agree with them having some language laws to promote French. Eight million quebecois surrounded by 300+ million anglophones and the greatest purveyor of English language culture on earth.
Part of the Island of Montreal became the place for a lot of Anglophones during the British rule who essentially built their own mini anglo sphere where nothing is in French. A huge part of the island is not part of the city administration for that reason to this day.
Irish people are basically English speaking québécois, at least that's the impression I got after crossing that gorgeous country filled with beautiful people.
A lot of the Irish Catholic immigrant families integrated to francophones or have a foot in both communities because of the religious rather than linguistic division of the Québec school boards (that has been reformed nowadays)
Dude is one of the hackiest grifters around, tried to raise a lot of money in Arizona off of "I KNOW KARI LAKE WILL DEFINITELY BE GOVERNOR SEND ME MONEY SO I CAN TAKE IT TO COURT"
It’s not stupidity, it’s an insult. He studied law in French at Université Laval. However, he was a far right People's Party of Canada candidate for MP in 2021. His party opposes the Canadian Multiculturalism Act…
Please tell me this was intended as satire. I know we can’t trust that in anything from the states anymore but… This is the land of Air Farce & 22 minutes. We actually do satire.
Xenophobic anglo conservatives hear non-English speech, and their minds immediately leap to Hieronymus Bosch's depiction of Hell in The Garden of Earthly Delights.
I was mostly referring to them deriding Europe in their Signal chat calling them "freeloaders" because of Trump's hate of NATO.
NOBODY on the right had problems with Europe before Trump hated them for disliking him. Early in his first term, he even wanted more European migrants here.
More like: an episode of “The Amazing Race” in South Korea that I caught ages ago, where one of the contestants trying to locate their next clue shouted out in frustration “Why doesn’t anyone speak English here?!”
It’s not great. The really problem he has is not vocab or accent it’s that he’s still thinking in English and the parsing it into French. My vocab is sometime limited but what saves me is my brain feels like it’s just thinking and the words come out in the appropriate language.
Not complaining. Better than my French and I also grew up in a bilingual country.
But apparently during one debate his opponents had to kindly remind him that he had said the opposite of what he meant.
All the years of learning French and I still sound like an anglophone. How I wish I could achieve 'unintelligible satanic mantra' levels of proficiency. Goals!
It was mostly a joke about people who speak the default language in a country rarely being very good at the minority languages.
I’m glad you like him and as I said he showed he is a good politician before with his economic politics during the crisis
I remember not too few living in southern France and Spain as pensioners voting for Brexit and then struggling to pass the language exam that became necessary because they voted themselves for losing their freedom to settle in the EU and needed to get another residency status
In my exp, the standards for English speaking French are higher than the other way around, which is frustrating. I'm sure he will improve given time. At least he's making an effort.
That's why I get after anyone picking on French ppl speaking English too. Its rude; speaking a 2nd lang is a feat.
I live in Quebec as an English(EN) speaker. The expectation is EN speak French(FR) better, often at a professional level. Whereas someone FR can get a job requiring EN at a lower lvl. The tactless joke is "yes,no, toilet" is adequate for a FR speaker to get a bilingual job. While EN may have to...
hold a professional conversation. Of course, not all cases but many.
Not everyone has had the same access to language studies. And changing politics & social tensions added to this, resulting in gaps in different provinces.
I'm originally from the east coast & we had lots of FR in primary school.
1. Au Québec c'est normal que les attentes soient plus élevées en français qu'en anglais. Le français est notre langue commune et publique.
2. LOL les francophones qui ont juste un « yes no toaster » sont HYPER rares et anyway ce ne sont pas eux qui ont les emplois bilingues. 🙄 Franchement.
Where I grew up speaking three to four languages is absolutely normal. Everyone does it. And I really mean everyone. People who *like* languages speak five to seven. But Belgium is a country of vivid language conflicts, the tensions are stronger than in Canada.
I’m optimistic his French will improve
To be honest, Poilievre's prononciation is pretty terrible too. No one mentions it, but he regularly makes mistakes and for us, French speakers, we need to understand what he means by the context of the sentence. Because Poilievre's french is more fluent doesn't mean its flawless, by far.
Haven’t heard him yet. Will pay attention next time. Also I only speak European French and I’m sometimes a bit doubtful „is this a specific Canadian pronunciation or is this person just butchering their way through the sentence hoping for the best?“
Something like that. Quebecois French is 18th Century Parisian French that evolved in isolation due to being cut off from France for a while. While France didn’t have a united French during the 1600’s, most of the women of the colony came from around Paris and passed their French to their kids.
Then, after the Conquest in the mid 1700s there was a period where direct contact with France was rare, and without audio recording technology to let people hear the French spoken elsewhere, our pronunciation stagnated.
So long as you don't take the sort of liberties your neighbours to the south take with English. The French are a proud race. They won't do anything violent, but they can sulk up such a storm you'll end up wishing they'd invade or something just to break the tension.
I had the thought yesterday that if Canada switched our communications to french the Americans might leave us alone because it’s too much effort to find out what we’re talking about.
Spanish is as significant a community in the States as French in Canada. The US just have a different relationship to different cultures which would not work well with Canada which is by and large built on balancing the interest of different cultural group where the US just absorb them.
Well ICE literally detained two American women as long ago as 2018 for speaking Spanish at a gas station in Montana (which is wild because it wasn’t far from the Canadian border so they should have expected some French at least).
The use of "satanic" suggests this guy is channelling or consuming too much russian propaganda. Satanist is the russian propagandists' favourite insult right now.
As a Satanist, I approve of Mark Carney. Man is intelligent, no nonsense with a quick and clever mind. He’s sharp, and he gives a shit about his people. Satanism is about the worship of one’s self. That extends to the ones you love. And we love most people. Except Nazis.
I don’t speak it fluently. I can speak a little, and read it fairly well. Marks French isn’t the best lol his accent comes through, but it’s not THAT bad 🤣🤣
Oh, so you're just going to sit there and tell me that's a normal thing for a person to do? I bet if you have your way we'll all be speaking this satanic "French"
🤣🤣 they’re getting pretty desperate as fascist Trump loving Con PP’s poll numbers fall, fall, fall. I see all the dirty 💰 these corrupt billionaires spent on Trump election has now moved to 🇨🇦 to support PP. They think Canadians are as stupid as MAGA. AB & SK perhaps, but I think most of 🇨🇦 see truth.
I was all for Carney when he was speaking in tongues of the dark and depraved netherworld--that's perfectly fine, you've got to meet Americans where they're at. But if he's really speaking French there he must resign immediately.
I grew up evangelical (unfortunately) and once had to defend Barney (yes, the purple dinosaur) from a family member who insisted he was satanic. These people are nuts.
Viva Frei was a fairly moderate conservative youtuber back before the Covid+Trump days. It seems to me that so many Conservatives lost their friggan minds after that and just went full lunatic. It's weird to me.
Wait, is it unintelligible, or is it clearly discernable as a satanic mantra? Y'all bitches can't have both (not you the person reading this, the proverbial you I mean)
Mark Twains' quote, "travel is fatal to bigotry and prejudice," is so apt now. A significant portion of Americans have never left the country and are suseptible to the fear mongering of the extreme right. Some countries actually have more freedom than Americans, but many don't know that.
There was a piece of someone who had infiltrated far right groups and aside from their Internet connections, most existed in isolated clusters, usually in small poor regional towns and considered everywhere was just like their towns.
I'm glad to hear that, I've watched a lot of his press conferences and he seems to manage well. I've been a bit surprised when I hear media types saying it's bad.
Omg🙃
This reminds of a fb group I'm in a lady who is a member of the group has her name in Japanese.
A MAGA member saw the name and was like oh she's fake her name is in Arabic!!
Everyone in the group was like uh that's Japanese and she's lived in town for 10 years😒🙃
it escalates to the point where the protagonist is now trying to summon the demon to protect them from the angry French people who are tired of being summoned
Rachel, it's not productive to cry over complete and utter idiots like Viva Freakface. Wipe those tears and fight for the elections of Liberal candidates. That freak is useless.
He studied law in French, so he knows he said "maîtres chez nous..." And even more so, as a Quebecker, he'll know that's a slogan from the early '60s when the Liberals were riding the crest of the Quiet Revolution.
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The extent of the grift..........honestly, being willing to look THIS stupid is............borderline impressive
It used to be based out of Toronto, and then relocated to Florida.
This skidmark likely has a show on Rumble, hence why he calls himself a "Florida Rumbler".
None too bright.
Considering the language of the grifters is gibberish, I wouldn’t be so surprised.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/epa-says-florida-has-most-lead-pipes-in-u-s
A total vile piece of crap.
Not even worth paying attention to.
Let him wallow in his cesspit with his filthy friends.
Since COVID Viva Frei is a real weirdo ..
PLEASE SHARE THIS VIDEO - NOW - like your life depends on it - 'coz it does.
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https://bsky.app/profile/novemberblackburn.bsky.social/post/3lldm2q76d222
*law firms
*- trying
that's... FFS, that's pretty dumb
How about PP's inability to get security clearances and all the lies his mouthpieces, like you, are telling around that issue?
Canada deserves way better than PP. #cdnpoli
They hate that Europeans accepted in great numbers the refugees from the places our country bombed and warred to submission.
Going off the tangent:
We see how they treat the people they hate. Immigrants, trans people, Europeans.
How will they treat "The Radicalized Left"?
NOBODY on the right had problems with Europe before Trump hated them for disliking him. Early in his first term, he even wanted more European migrants here.
If you were on Twitter around 2015, after Merkel accepted 440000 extra refugees, European hate came as:
1) "Grand Replacement" and "Eurabia" conspiracy theories.
2) Obama praising Merkel for refugee intake.
3) "Lazy free-loading" Europeans.
4) Rules that cripple growth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chJ5YHqPuz0
*shakes fist at cloud*
When they asked him if he was a spy, he refused to answer.
But apparently during one debate his opponents had to kindly remind him that he had said the opposite of what he meant.
(Jean Chretien, BTW.)
https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/26/mark-carney-polytechnique-school-massacre-blunder-apology/
I’m glad you like him and as I said he showed he is a good politician before with his economic politics during the crisis
That's why I get after anyone picking on French ppl speaking English too. Its rude; speaking a 2nd lang is a feat.
Not everyone has had the same access to language studies. And changing politics & social tensions added to this, resulting in gaps in different provinces.
I'm originally from the east coast & we had lots of FR in primary school.
2. LOL les francophones qui ont juste un « yes no toaster » sont HYPER rares et anyway ce ne sont pas eux qui ont les emplois bilingues. 🙄 Franchement.
I’m optimistic his French will improve
Angrily spews several more sacres before storming off.
https://x.com/thevivafrei/status/1905954759309140288
Don't Canadians speak a weird kind of French anyway? Quebecois? Full of 'Hath at thee sirrahs' and the like?
A bit like Americans don't really speak English?
But yes, joking aside, it's...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mary-simon-gg-zelenskyy-1.7063058
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tvyskN-Kkm0
(pardon)
Do they even need to scrap the Board of Education?
Someone even ran for governor over there on the promise she was gonna blow them bitches up because of it. 😭
Never think you got a grasp on where they at.
Viva Frei est très stupide.
“Aah there goes another Christian god-fearer, praise the lord”
*observing a tourist ordering food in another language*
“Satan is everywhere, we must stay vigilant!”
I confirm French is a satanic language 😎.
The word “libido” is feminine
(La libido)
Ends with a O, but is feminine?!
Satanic!
Did he wear his hair in that style when you went to high school with him?
And I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed.
Except this country.
Apparently, being boldly proud of your ignorance and sharing it with other illiterates is a shining accomplishment.
For the stochastic terrorist crazies they depend on for attacks for intimidation.
https://bsky.app/profile/rachelgilmore.bsky.social/post/3llhfkspc6c2v
Languages: English and unintelligible satanic mantra.
*I'm french (Mwahahahaha) 😈
This reminds of a fb group I'm in a lady who is a member of the group has her name in Japanese.
A MAGA member saw the name and was like oh she's fake her name is in Arabic!!
Everyone in the group was like uh that's Japanese and she's lived in town for 10 years😒🙃
*followed*
- David Freiheit, probably
Time to start dusting off my 4 years of French to freak people out ✅️
...except that now they suck at that too.
The worst.
Keep them stupid and they will vote GOP.