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Amazing how the US government thinks US businesses have any standing in our country, after it wiped its ass with that trade treaty that wildly favoured them.

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It is fucking wild. One might say it sounds like entitlement. But surely a “self-made man” like Donald Trump knows nothing of entitlement… /s

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Lol they’re trying to mess with the Québécois. Good fucking luck with that.

I’m 100% with the Quebecois, get fucked USA, you don’t have jurisdiction here and you don’t get to dictate to us.

Edit: the US lacking bilingual packaging and documentation is an illegal barrier to our trade. They don’t even have an official language, so how can vis be a barrier to them. Maybe they should learn French.

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If there’s one thing the French are good at, it’s resistance

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I’m pretty sure it’s one of the main reasons the right has always tried to crack jokes and minimize French influence in the U.S.

Wouldn’t want the Americana to see their cousins have big brass balls and will torch anything in their way if their ruling class fucks around too much.

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But if it is the last barrier to reaching an agreement, how long will the rest of Canada support Quebec? This is being done to test our confederacy.

Edit: Not supporting Trump, just being realistic about his intentions.

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22 points

Why would we ever let a foreign government choose our languages? Seems it’ll be a common issue for them.

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We’ll never stop standing with Quebec. No foreign power is going to dictate our culture. Canada strong.

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They don’t even have an official language

They do now. Since March 1st.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-designates-english-as-the-official-language-of-the-united-states/

Doesn’t diminish what you’ve said though.

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21 points

TIL

And that’s officially a trade barrier to our domestic francophone population!

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10 points

Nobody even noticed

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Americans who don’t speak English will begin to notice

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A lot of people will notice when red states stop dropping other languages in schools next school year.

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No, absolutely not.

Just because some asshole in a round office says something doesn’t make it true. The US has no official language.

Non, absolument pas.

Ce n’est pas parce qu’un trou du cul dans un bureau rond dit quelque chose que ça devient vrai. Les États-Unis n’ont pas de langue officielle.

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“wait, we have to follow laws of other countries?” that’s illegal!

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The US government doesn’t give a shit about anything except excuses for their catastrophic tariff plan. They want to highlight issues that will never be negotiable so they can justify them to Faux News and their Trumper cult. It is a classic divide an conquer technique on Canada. Further, I am sure Russia is running troll farms with misinformation on us now.

Dairy industry, VS oil and gas, VS Québécois.

Who is next?

Concede nothing to the US.

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Totally agree. “Make an outrageous demand” is one of the few tools in trumps repitoire.

Even if we did somehow ascede to it, he’d just come up with something new. The point is to have something to hang over us, not to actually get the thing.

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I don’t speak French, but I assure you I would kill and if necessary die to ensure Quebec always can. We stand together.

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That moment when Louisiana (in the U.S.) looks around and says wait, our laws are based on Napoleonic laws, we French based too right?

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I mean, the Cajuns, the best part of Louisiana, are basically Quebecois.

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Some would argue the Cajun are the Quebecois who were unwilling to submit to British rule.

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It’s the old “I don’t necessarily agree with what you are saying, but I would defend to the death your right to say it” ideal, and I’m 100% down for it.

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