End of the road for the United Kingdom?

If North American French are fake, then, using your own logic, North American English are pretty much, what? Pastiche?...

 

Really? The more than doubling of Canadian GDP since 2000 isn't all tar sands production.

 

I was selfishly hoping that the "yes" vote would win. That would have been a fascinating process to watch.

 

Not likely, but Alberta is the economic gold star right now and meanwhile, a large part of Ontario's industry was automotive based. 2008 hurt it quite a bit.

 

The vote was to decide one question and that's it, "Should Scotland be an independent country?" Even if the yes side won under english law it meant nothing.

 

Ontarios GDP vs debt is worse than California. 10 years under liberal leadership has turned Ontario from a prosperous province to one on the dole. Albertans are pissed as Canada has equalization payments where a wealthy province will bankroll provinces in the minus. Alberta and BC have been paying for Quebecs liberal, socialist lifestyle for 30 years, when by all measures, Quebec has the resources, infrastructure and people to be successful. Now Ontario has joined the side with the hand out.

The biggest piss off is that Québécois who want to separate have no issue having the rest of Canada supplement their lifestyles. Hypocrites.

Fake French is right. Go ask a Frnch person and they'll tell you Quebecers don't speak French. It's a pigmy French hardly understood by anyone but Quebecers.

 

Thanks for the insight. How much popular support is there for Alberta, BC, and other provinces seceding from Canada? IMO, if the UK or Canada breakup it will be a huge inspiration to people here. It might take 30 more years, but eventually the same will happen in the US. The French Revolution was strongly inspired by the American Revolution.

 

As of now, not much. Just resentment at having to supplement people's lifestyle while those same people are making fun of your country lifestyle, hunting and overall more "rural" living, while on the other end screaming at you for ruining the environment as their energy consumption foot print is through the roof.

Very much a direct comparison between say Texas and California.

 

Their "French" is actually closer to what the French used to speak a few hundred years ago. They are the real traditionalists, in a sense.
But yeah, they get made fun of a lot on this side of the Atlantic.

 

Mindewe, any french spoken outside of Paris isn't considered real french...

 

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