Wait until they find out about China.
Wait till they learn about other languages in other countries.
They’re crushing Spanish in their own country.
The US conquered land from Mexico some centuries ago, and thus there’s a large population of monolingual Spanish speakers in the south of the country.
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!
“wait, we have to follow laws of other countries?” that’s illegal!
FU. You want to sell your products here you package them in our languages.
Je ne peux pas parler Francais avec un peu de compétence, mais la langue des Québécois n’est pas une barrière pour les gens avec un peu de respect!
Pff. All that high school French and that’s the best I can do. Anyways, shut up, US.
C’est déjà bien! Faut pas se décourager :)
You know, I only learned the basics of English at school. I became bilingual through exposition to the language, which admittedly is far easier for English than French in my opinion, but still.
Écoute mon gros gros pédophile et ses amis, tu pourrais me battre au sang que tu ne m’empêchera pas de parler ma langue. Gader vos estie de cochonneries amazon et vos films de super-héros pour idiots heureuz et enfoncez-vous les bien profondément dans le cul.
God, why do they feel entitled to our marketplace? Jesus Christ can they just fuck off?
It’s their “god given right”, didn’t you know?
People are finally realizing to whom the free market is.
Manges de la merde, gros sans-dessein orange.
He wants to isolate is, but we can’t isolate him! I guess if you get your head far enough up your own arse it makes sense?
They want maximum trade barriers going in and minimal trade barriers going out.
It’s just straight up bullying. Always has been.
This is what happens when people who, at a primal level, think the world is a zero sum game. Who never learned how cooperation results in bigger rewards.
In that case I don’t see why they’d object to it, their president seems to be all in favour of illegal trade barriers.
CBC has English coverage, and the law is only described as a “trade irritant”, not anything illegal, which is surprising given the insane claims the Trump admin likes to make:
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released its annual list of global trade barriers Tuesday, and it includes Quebec’s controversial language law Bill 96 as a trade irritant between the two countries.
The law isn’t new but it has provisions that kick in in June that seem to be the main issue:
The changes impact the use of French in the judicial system, health care, schools, workplaces and businesses across the provincial economy, but the issue singled out as a trade barrier by the U.S. is how it impacts trademarks and labelling.
“U.S. businesses have expressed concerns about the impact that Bill 96 will have on their federally registered trademarks for products manufactured after June 1, 2025, which is when the relevant provisions of Bill 96 enter into force,” the National Trade Estimate Report said.
When the new provisions kick in this summer, trademarks displayed on a product can only appear in English if there’s no French version of the trademark registered. If the trademark or label contains generic terms or descriptions that are not in French, the trademark must be changed to include a French version of those terms and descriptions.
Companies found to have violated these changes to the law can face fines of up to $90,000 per day for their third offence, while individuals can be fined up to $42,000 a day for their third offence.
It’s not any less of a barrier to Canadian companies outside fo Quebec. They both tend to hire Quebec people to deal with the barrier. Just as they might hire California people to help sales/marketing in that state.
Trump is using this to cause a crisis in Canada. Quebec objects, the ROC 1) may grow impatient with an agreement not being made. 2) IF the ROC rallies behind Quebec, the US will use if forever to justify tariffs.
Dirty tactics.
Like a third of the charter of rights and freedoms is about language laws and french/english. Even as a west coaster, I highly doubt there’s a scenario where Canada doesn’t side with Quebec on this front.
So option 2 it is – but that’s their endgame anyway, they’re just hunting for an excuse to do it anyhow. Thats been clear ever since he dredged up Fentanyl as a boogeyman. Just hurry up and diversify trade more – I’m fairly sure we can find other markets for most goods. Any business that’s just sitting there hoping this will blow over, and/or that the government will bail them out, and isn’t taking direct actions to mitigate this issue that’s been months and months in the making… deserves to fail.
What does the Republic of China have to do with this?
I believe ROC is the “rest of Canada” in this context.
It’s what the oil barons call their responsibilities in the boom years and their benefactors when shit’s on fire.
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
the fucking nerve of americans. imagine if france callled up trump and said “your language is an illegal impediment to french businesses. speak french.” would the trumpster fire obey?
Lol at Trumpster Fire.
