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Michael Rousseau’s lack of judgement this week overshadowed much better news about institutional bilingualism in Canada. The judges of Supreme Court of Canada heard for 4 days arguments on bill 21 (secularism) without using simultaneous translation. All pitching in with questions from the bench in french and english, regardless of their native or professional training language. We have 9 exceptional jurist in the highest court of the land who can hear appeals and understand pleadings in front of them in both official languages, not a translation of it, but the actual language with its nuance.

@RomanFisher__ No issue with people of faith, I have an issue with faith mixed up in public institutions or political discourse

@jppl1979 Have an issue with people of faith?

Four years later, Canadians chose Trudeau over this man. Absolutely brutal.

@Alberta_boy18 @RomanFisher__ Both wrong. I fucking hate religion in all of its form. It is individual and the state should be free of it, all of it.

@jppl1979 @RomanFisher__ “Muslim values are Canadian values” - Mark Carney

@Concern70732755 @RobertCTaylor99 Bible humpers

Conservatives are standing up with bibles in hand trying to protect your Christian faith !! You will never see a Liberal due this !!!

@PatSaindon @jfrobergeQc Les artisans des success moderne d’Air Canada sont Colin Rovinescu and Ben Smith… pas Michael Rousseau

@jfrobergeQc Quand on veut, on peut. Mais quand ça rentre, tu deviens un pas bon? Je vois beaucoup de québécois qui ont besoin de l'anglais et qui en sont incapables. Air Canada a besoin d'une porte-parole bilingue. Le PDG n'a qu'à bien gérer l'entreprise.

Quand on veut, on peut. Bravo à la PDG du CN pour son engagement à maîtriser la langue française! journaldequebec.com/2026/03/27/con…

@cselley But is good at driving…

Dude, HIRE A DRIVER! You're not good at it!!🤦‍♂️

@TristinHopper It doesn’t drive me to the bloc, but it drives me to push out populist conservative idiots out of MacDonald & Cartier’s party… push them to the PPC with fellow idiots

I'm not being a bitch about this to drive people to the Bloc (although please do). It's what I think. Bilingualism yields some pretty unfair consequences in Western Canada ... consequences that are weirdly similar to the grievances that drove Quebec's uncompromising defence of French in the first place.

You totally changed my mind that official bilingualism is just a discriminatory membership card for mean-spirited rich Laurentians.

@RomanFisher__ Didnt they burn down. Love their crips

Great news for a New Brunswick-based company

@prairiecentrist @ToonTownDano Right up there with Bay of Pigs

Is this the worst planned US operation in history?

@MobyDickSpoiler Thats him on full brain trust

Is this mfer serious

@slessard2000 But he invented the internet

Nope. Notable scientific failure by all standards.

@stphnmaher @colewhogan I am one of them

@colewhogan I could swear I have met some Albertans who speak French very well.

Furthermore, official bilingualism is regionally discriminatory. This policy ensures a significant percentage of those occupying the highest offices in the country are Central Canadians, which is the way the Laurentian Consensus prefers it.

@colewhogan Conservatism use to be about rewarding the effort (and merit), as in putting the effort to get a trade, an education, a business, a second language, etc. Call me old school but I must have missed when it stopped being the case.

@stphnmaher @colewhogan 75,000 native, 274,000 bilingual

The only people that role their eyes have never lived the discrimination in my opinion. In Ottawa, you have a meeting of 9 francos and one anglo, the whole meeting is in english… but if you have it the other way around the meeting is not in french. Every Franco in Ottawa is expected to speak english, but the minute we ask high ranking officials to speak both languages, it is over the top drama. The reality is no unilingual french people working at Air Canada, but tons of anglo. Why arent we proud to speak (not perfectly but trying is a good start) a second language or language(s). Why arent we more curious of other culture. Asking for my best friend born in Merit BC from a second generation indian family who went to law school in French in Moncton…,

@Anthony__Koch Can we grant the significance and relevance of the French language while also rolling our eyes at some of the stuff that comes out of Quebec?

My take that pisses everyone off: It is impossible to be a Canadian nationalist while denigrating the significance or relevance of the French language. The single greatest differentiator between Canada and the United States is the existence of Québec.

@TCT_73 @XavioMtl They also consideration for it… a very protected and quasi monopoly on international flight with protection from foreign take overs

@XavioMtl @jppl1979 @RomanFisher__ I dont know if you saw my other comments on this, but I understand the Air Canada situation and agree with it as that was the agreement that was made to take the brand private. I would add though that i believe regular, non special case private companies can do what they want.

If you have to be bilingual to be considered a worthy C-suite executive in Canada, you’re going to push out many of the best candidates. Convince me I’m wrong. Quebec cannot demand concessions from Anglo Canada in perpetuity without giving something back in exchange. The asymmetry is unsustainable.

@FlavioVolpe1 @ray_hoang30 A figment of Trump’s imagination

There are no credible reports of forced labour in Canada’s automotive manufacturing cluster.

@TLNewmanMTL @MtnSounder In fairness, Pierre’s french (for a guy with a french name) isnt that much better than Carney.

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Maybe it is because the conservative party is more populist than conservative… it has become “Bloc Albertan” more than the Conservative Party of Canada. Not that long ago, a conservative guy got the largest popular support of any Prime Minister in Canada history… over 50%, and then a few years later, he got the 2nd highest level of support. Maybe ask yourself the difference between our conservative and these conservative. I still think that the right leader, with the right team and the right policies could get the level of support Mulroney got in 1980s

Canada may never have another Conservative government again. No, I’m not black pilling it. Everything is lining up to for the Conservatives to never win another Federal election, at least for the foreseeable future. Right now, people are so frustrated and fed up with Canada, they’re leaving. The ones leaving aren’t the ones who vote Liberal. They’re the Conservatives who are tired of watching the Liberals absolutely destroy Canada. Add to that the floods of people that the Liberals are bringing into Canada. Sorry. Not people. Liberal voters. This will help ensure the Liberals win elections for many terms to come. This is what I predict the future of Canada will be. Endless Liberal governments until they are so successful at destroying us through immigration, that a Muslim Party is formed and they win a majority government, thus paving the way to sharia law in Canada. This isn’t just a possible outcome for Canada, it’s a probable one. Look around. You’ll see the signs. This is exactly what is being planned. And the Liberals are making it happen.