That's exactly why the law was passed, because without it, the engligh majority in north america would not bother with translating their product for quebec.
30-40 years ago, almost everithing was in english (a rich english minority ruled a working class french majority) and in some places in montreal (like at the Eatons store in downtown) you could not even get service in french.
The law may be a bit rough on the foundamental freedoms, but i think it was justified
(less freedom, but more cultural security i guess;)
I'm pretty sure that in canada, its illegal to force someone to give up a basic right (in this case, the right to work).
By 2 cents, if some other company offers you twice as much for work and you don't even have to move (which is why EA opens a office in montreal) than good for them.
Also, from what i heard (from working there and from people who have worked there) work conditions where generaly not that good at Ubisoft (there was an underground union called "UbiFree" based in Montreuil a while back) and I also head that salaries for game programmers drasticaly increased since the EA/splinter cell incident and that udisoft publiched all their salary charts, so i guess that UbiSoft can affort the salaried that EA offered the splinter cell team.
You`re right about that.
I don`t think i`d last long in customer support or in sales if i spoke "slang" or half english half mexican/ebonics/hebrew.
I were the boss in a company, i`d would like my employees to write proper english/french (hence the all the french gov publications must be in "french").
French is french, its not french with some english in it.
Courriel is a direct contraction from courrier(mail) and electronique (electronic), so it seems fair to me (unlike cédérom).
I`m french canadian (quebecois) and i think i speak more french that anyone in Paris;)
Sartory
hum, i hate to rain on your parade but i think you`ve got it all backwards, the purpose of newspeak was to destroy words.
The "Academie Française" added a word to the french language which, i think is a good thing because like Linux, its always good to have an alternative;P
Err.. i think (not really sure) that the u.s. already has a trade deficit (ever looked where your t-shirt were made lately).
Secondly, being (french) canadian, i think that minimum wage is a good thing and i am gratefull to the unions for other things like the 5 day work week and a safety in the work place.
The problem is that unions usualy are as greedy as the companies.
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heerr, hate to break it to ya, but in Canada (or in Quebec where i'm from), the Liberal party is considered to be a center-right party ;)
That's exactly why the law was passed, because without it, the engligh majority in north america would not bother with translating their product for quebec. 30-40 years ago, almost everithing was in english (a rich english minority ruled a working class french majority) and in some places in montreal (like at the Eatons store in downtown) you could not even get service in french. The law may be a bit rough on the foundamental freedoms, but i think it was justified (less freedom, but more cultural security i guess ;)
not twice as large, just larger (signs must have predominant french)
francophones do account for 80% of the population in quebec after all
I'm not a lawyer, but i'm canadian ;P
I'm pretty sure that in canada, its illegal to force someone to give up a basic right (in this case, the right to work).
By 2 cents, if some other company offers you twice as much for work and you don't even have to move (which is why EA opens a office in montreal) than good for them.
Also, from what i heard (from working there and from people who have worked there) work conditions where generaly not that good at Ubisoft (there was an underground union called "UbiFree" based in Montreuil a while back) and I also head that salaries for game programmers drasticaly increased since the EA/splinter cell incident and that udisoft publiched all their salary charts, so i guess that UbiSoft can affort the salaried that EA offered the splinter cell team.
You`re right about that. I don`t think i`d last long in customer support or in sales if i spoke "slang" or half english half mexican/ebonics/hebrew. I were the boss in a company, i`d would like my employees to write proper english/french (hence the all the french gov publications must be in "french"). French is french, its not french with some english in it. Courriel is a direct contraction from courrier(mail) and electronique (electronic), so it seems fair to me (unlike cédérom). I`m french canadian (quebecois) and i think i speak more french that anyone in Paris ;)
Sartory
hum, i hate to rain on your parade but i think you`ve got it all backwards, the purpose of newspeak was to destroy words.
;P
The "Academie Française" added a word to the french language which, i think is a good thing because like Linux, its always good to have an alternative
Sartory
Err.. i think (not really sure) that the u.s. already has a trade deficit (ever looked where your t-shirt were made lately). Secondly, being (french) canadian, i think that minimum wage is a good thing and i am gratefull to the unions for other things like the 5 day work week and a safety in the work place. The problem is that unions usualy are as greedy as the companies.