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The NDP Can’t Call Itself a National Party If Its Leaders Can’t Speak French (thewalrus.ca)
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[–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yeah the thing is, we hear a lot about those people who will learn French... and then a lot of them don't. Also, I'd like to see how would anglophones react if the NDP only had unilingual francophones. This isn't a nothingburger. And that comes from someone who has never voted for souverainists parties, neither at federal nor provincial elections.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Just hire a damn translator, I don’t care. I’d only care if they refused to offer any attempt at translation.

    Sure French is one of our national languages but I’d wager there is a large portion, if not the majority of citizens that don’t speak it more than whatever they can remember from school. (Edit: the Mauril app I’m using to slowly learn says it’s only 18% of the country that are bilingual.)

    I don’t speak it, I’m attempting to learn, but honestly if the policies are good and they have a translator I don’t give a shit if they speak both languages or not.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Like who?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Mary Simon

    Doug Ford (in Ontario but people from Gatineau and franco-ontariens surely care about it, more people also if he tries to become the next conservative leader

    Air Canada's CEO

    All those English speaking hockey players for the Habs who swear to do so but only say "Bonjour, comment ça va, merci" after years.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I don't read French unfortunately and I refuse to use AI.

    doug Ford is a universal ass

    And a private company CEO?

    I was looking for federal politicians that's promised to learn French, since that's what the NDP are.

    I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I can't remember any on the national stage. But I'd be the last to remember, hence me asking.

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