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Originally Posted by Acajack
J'avais loupé cette question. C'est une journée qui est fertile en sujets de discussion.
Trump tends to be very isolationist so I think there is a good chance that he'd stay out of whatever internal debates we'd have in Canada. He is very unpopular in Quebec so not sure that even a Pierre Poilievre government that might be somewhat pro-Trump would see the usefulness of bringing him on board to help the Non side. In 1995, the Non side did appeal to Bill Clinton who made a couple of pro-Canada and pro-federalism speeches, but he was quite popular in Quebec.
As for Quebecers being afraid of the big bad US, well Canada and ROCers in general have been trying to tell us for decades that the real threat is the US, not Anglophone Canadians. And that we have this in common - Quebec and the ROC vs the US.
Much to the frustration of Anglo-Canadians, Quebecers have always rejected this idea and see Anglo-Canadians and Anglo-Canada as their biggest nemesis and threat.
Under the principle that sure the US is a big dangerous grizzly bear roaming outside the house, but Anglo-Canada is a smaller but still dangerous black bear that is actually inside the house.
This perception in Quebec has never changed no matter who is in power in Washington.
Anecdotally, it's worth mentioning for example that in terms of respecting French as the language of Quebec, American-owned businesses aren't necessarily worse than Canadian-owned businesses (or even businesses owned by Anglo-Quebecers) and are sometimes even better.
You should see how US chains like Walmart and Home Depot operate entirely in French in Quebec, from signage and service to the language of work for staff. It's even the case in western parts of Montreal.
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^^Which doesn't answer... the original question.
So, Trump victory making Québec independence more likely or less likely?
As for this:
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Originally Posted by Acajack
Anecdotally, it's worth mentioning for example that in terms of respecting French as the language of Quebec, American-owned businesses aren't necessarily worse than Canadian-owned businesses (or even businesses owned by Anglo-Quebecers) and are sometimes even better.
You should see how US chains like Walmart and Home Depot operate entirely in French in Quebec, from signage and service to the language of work for staff. It's even the case in western parts of Montreal.
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Yeah, I've noticed that in France too. Big US companies, in particular the Gafa, tend to respect local languages a lot, so in our case dutifully having everything available in French. I guess it's just a very business mentality, you speak the client's language. Oftentimes they can even be "more royalist than the king" and be "super-French" in terms of language use (such as Google maps writing all the names of European cities in French, even the most obscure ones, as I already pointed out before).
French companies are the worst in terms of French language. They will very often use English as a gimmick. For example in France the word "by" has almost entirely replaced "par" in commercial speak. As in : "Le livret épargne by La Poste". They also over-abuse "my" for internet services. The name of internet platforms is usually "my + name of the company". For example online banking by Crédit Agricole is "MyCréditAgricole", etc.
This drives me nuts!!
US companies, on the other hand, will be much more respectful of French in general, and not use those stupid English terms (French companies assume that we're going to find them "trendy" if they use English words or phrases).
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