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.
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
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.
They don’t even have an official language
They do now. Since March 1st.
Doesn’t diminish what you’ve said though.
TIL
And that’s officially a trade barrier to our domestic francophone population!
Nobody even noticed
Americans who don’t speak English will begin to notice
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.
Were these idiots dropped on their heads as a baby? In what world can one country dictate the laws of another country without there being a war?
They’re trying it on here in Australia too. The USA pharmaceutical industry is lobbying the USA administration by claiming that our PBS, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which allows us to have affordable medication and a safety net, is harming their bottom line because they’re required to negotiate with the Australian Government in order to supply their medication at a negotiated price. Must be tough to have to negotiate with adults.
How arrogant of you to suggest that your entire country’s medical needs are somehow more important than the financial well-being of some shareholders
Easy fix.
Hire better negotiators.
How does Australia’s pharmaceutical industry compare to Canada’s? We have a lot of generics here in Canada… I’m curious whether Australia would benefit from a similar stance that favours more white label production, or if Australia is more invested in the development side and feels like it needs to maintain more strict/homogenized w/ US laws to keep them as a seller and recoup on its investments.
I had no idea, so I looked … I still have no idea. The dollar numbers tossed around contradict each other and vary wildly, to the point of being absurd.
I don’t know what the policy on generics is, but as I understand it, the PBS negotiates on our behalf to subsidize medication that would otherwise be completely unaffordable.
When I get to a computer with a screen that’s bigger than my hand, I’ll have a squiz at the Australian Bureau of Statistics to see if I can learn more.
Edit: Just came across this gem:
Buddy, they’ve been doing this for ages. Certainly ever since the end of WWII. Sometimes diplomatically, other times via interference, and when that fails, militarily. We’re just kinda waking up to it now because we haven’t seen as much of the second and third methods used against us before. But yeah, this isn’t about stupidity, this has been their policy for a long time.
In what world can one country dictate the laws of another country
Welcome to American exceptionalism.
I don’t speak French, but I assure you I would kill and if necessary die to ensure Quebec always can. We stand together.
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 don’t know a lot about Canada but isn’t that how you piss off quebec?
It takes even less. I think they’re all but chewing their shields and loading the cow into the catapult now.
Listen… I don’t like bill 96.
But the US can get fucked. French is an official language and if anyone in Canada wants to do business in French, it’s their right.
FU. You want to sell your products here you package them in our languages.
Nothing says “American values” like whining about how foreigners insist on speaking their native languages in their own countries (while threatening to invade them and demanding they do you special favours).
Wait until they find out about China.
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.
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.
That’s it from now on the official languages of canada will be french and deep newfy
You might not be able to understand french but at least there are coursed and translation books
If there is ever an invasion we will use deep-newfie code talkers, the baymen are unintelligible except to one another
I lived there as a baby, and learned to speak there. After we moved to the US, my mother forced me into speech therapy for years.
The residential schools claim another one, shaking my head
Hey we gotta allow Hoserish still, eh? The US can take right off, you knobs. \ Good Day.
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Oui oui! Je suis an ananas!!
Honhonhon j’aime manger les ananas, jaime tous les fruits
Bravo ! Allons regarder ensemble Psych en français (^_^)
Oui oui, tu es un ananas!
No joke but I’m actually starting to learn it after half a decade of saying maybe next year
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I have a lot of issues with the French legislation, but I understand why it exists. It’s not about me, and it’s not about American businesses either!
According to him, Canada and Quebec have no advantage in making compromises on their language policies, nor do Italians, Dutch, Germans, etc. He pointed out that the United States did not ask its other partners for such compromises.
Illustrating the definition of discrimination.
Osti de tabarnak de calice!
Seriously though, this is a coincidence that he says this at the same time Carney says he wants Québec to roll back law 96.
Our French language protection laws is nobody’s business but our own.
CBC’s coverage says his problem isn’t with the law itself:
Blanchet’s criticism follows Carney’s remarks Monday that a government led by him would act as an intervenor at the Supreme Court of Canada should it ever hear a challenge to Bill 96.
Carney said he would do so not because he has a problem with the legislation, but because he opposes any province’s pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause to pass laws.
