If you travel to Vancouver British, Columbia you will notice all the highway signs are in french and english. You will notice all the packaging for food, candy, beverages are in french and english. You will also find this in Edmonton Alberta, Toronto Ontario, and anywere else in Canada ... except Quebec.

When I visited Quebec for the first time last year I was shocked to see everything in french. No english to be seen anywere. All the highway signs were in French. Most french websites related to Qubec (other than the government site) Do not offer services in english and french.

By law, dosen't Quebec have to put all the signs on the highways, and packaging in french aswell as english?

I live in the US so I don't know too much about how the bilingual thing works in Canada, but I thought if Quebec dosen't bother with the english why would Ontario, Manitoba and other provinces even bother with the french?
I just want to make it clear that I do know about what happened several years ago with Quebec and the Canadian government. My main question is, legally can they do that?
Oh and yes I do know Quebec is the french speaking province lol

That is because Quebec wants to be its own country. There are alot of separatists that live in Quebec.

No, It's a very boring country with a stupid government.
If you go east to Ontario, or Quebec or the maritimes it might be billingual.
PS: I'm canadian

Quebec has separtists (if I spell it right), and they ususally don't obey the rules... well there isn't any rule for that. I live in Canada and Quebec was trying to separate from us several years ago. You'll also see that there is no Canadian flag in Quebec, only Quebec flag.

You'll also noticed that other than the city Montreal, people barely speak English.
Also, on Canada Day, Quebec is the only province that does not celebrate. I think their official day of celebration is French's National day I guess.

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Quebec is a sticky situation. They want to be 100% French. I was there in 2000 and was surprised that so few people spoke English (or would admit to it, I guess). It was a very difficult trip because I was there for LASIK with a prominent doctor. I couldn't see anything afterward and all TV was in French, so I couldn't even listen to anything. I was very bored and stir crazy because I was there for a week! I did learn to order the "cinq trio avec Coke" at the McD, though. As for highway signs, who knows. You'd have to ask a Quebecois.

Quebec is the one French speaking province. In Quebec French is the primary language, and English is secondary. Signs are REQUIRED to be in French, English translations are optional. It's all about preserving our heritage. Vive le Quebec Libre!

The rest of Canada is proud to be Canadian. What a fantastic country. Quebec on the other hand (and I dont mean everybody) wants to seperate and be their own country. If Canada is the Mother, Quebec as the child. Canada needs to give Quebec a darn good spanking.

Oh, yes very perceptive my American Amigo. What is the deal with Quebec. Okay, yes, legally everything in Canada must be bilingual. I think it must be in Quebec as well, so if it isn't they are breaking the law. Seriously. Quebec is almost like a European country in the middle of Canada. They have their own legal system compared to the rest of Canada. Also, if you are an entertainer in Quebec, you can be a HUGE star...in Quebec. It's a very unique province that really doesn't have any affiliation with English Canada, especially Western Canada. I've been to Montreal and things were bilingual and most pple spoke in English, so you must have been in Quebec City or some smaller towns in Quebec. I'm from a province far away from Quebec but i took French Immersion for 6 years and it didn't help me a damn bit. I would have been better off studying Spanish or Mandarin. I was told that speaking a second language would help me...and it never did. What a bunch of bullock. At least in the USA, English is the official language.

That's because Quebec doesn't think they are a part of Canada.

OK, I live in Quebec, so let's first make a few things clear: We are not stupid. Half of us do NOT want to seperate from Canada and are proud of this country. Every legal documents in Quebec are available in both French and English. starting next year, students in French schools will be having ESL classes starting in the first grade (until this year they started in the third grade) and most people in Quebec will speak English very well.

About the signs. Being the only officially French speaking province in North America (except for small regions in Louisiana and western Canada) the Quebec government made laws to forbid signs in English. This was done as one of the many efforts to preserve our language and culture and not be assmilated by the huge influence of English bombarding (figuratively) us from the rest of Canada and the US. All the legal information about the law can be found on wikipedia if you type "loi 101" in the search engine.

Visit us again, Quebec is absolutely beautiful, and full of history.