American Reacts to Toronto vs. Montreal | Canadian City Comparison 

And just like all venues in any city I will never remember to actually go to it unless I am a visitor.

That is the St Lawrence river the third largest river in North America ( the Mississippi is number 1)

And it inspired Walter Disney for his own in Disney land.

Ça soulignait aussi le 100e anniversaire du Canada ? It also marked Canada's 100th birthday?

@@fahleyhipanser790 Yess it did

Bien d'accord avec toi ! ;-) En plus, le français est beaucoup plus difficile à apprendre, avec tous ses temps de verbes, que l'anglais... Pour qu'un anglophone apprenne le français, il doit vraiment être motivé !

Very true. Same reason so many Scandinavians speak English. Our children were enrolled in French Immersion and became fluently bilingual. Unfortunately, not speaking French over the years, they lost it. They can pick it up with some use.

​@@AnabelleLiveGoodBonjour ! En tant que spécialiste en enseignement de l'anglais, langue seconde, c'est complètement faux de prétendre que l'anglais est une langue plus simple que le français ! Oui, la conjugaison est plus complexe en français mais l'anglais possède plus de temps ! Ex. Je fais = I do, I am doing et I do do ! Les expressions verbales à particules sont un cauchemar à maitriser par les étrangers. Ex. Put up, get over with, run into somebody, work up... Il y a les huit façons de prononcer -ough, aucune règle simple concernant l'accent tonique (en français, c'est toujours la dernière simple d'un mot !).... Je ne nie pas que le genre grammatical et l'accord du participe passé en français sont compliqués, mais une langue est plus que cela. Cordialement, un anglo-québécois 🙂

@@user-mrfrog Née d'une mère Ontarienne et d'un père Québécois, j'ai été élevée bilingue et je trouve personnellement que l'anglais est beaucoup plus facile à apprendre... C'est d'ailleurs pourquoi au Québec beaucoup d'immigrants vont choisir d'apprendre et de vivre en anglais, bien qu'ils doivent tout-de-même apprendre le français de base pour se conformer (j'ai plusieurs amis immigrants qui ont fait ce choix, pour ces raisons)... Je ne l'ai pas inventé, c'est bien connu... Tout est peut-être une question de perspective !

@@user-mrfrog Les difficultés sont une affaire personnelle. Chaque individu vit l'apprentissage d'une langue, d'une matière et etc de manière différente, et dire qu'une langue est plus difficile qu'une autre est tout aussi faux. Personnellement, venant d'une famille francophone, je trouve l'anglais plus facile à apprendre, et j'ai encore quelques difficultés en français.

I had to chuckle when he said Toronto had the best weather in the summer. No thanks. Heat and humidity is not what I call great weather.

Rather be brutally hot than brutally cold. Lots more you can do in former than latter.

Btw, 40 degrees, in this context, is in Celsius. That's like 104-105 F, to the American viewer who might think that we consider 40 F to be hot. Though the amount of t-shirts and skirts I see at 40 F is definitely greater than 0.

@@TOBoy6338disagree. I can always put on more layers. There’s only so naked I can get before I have a new problem.

@@TOBoy6338 It's the other way around. There is a lot you can do if it is cold. Not much you can do when it is hot. Unless you want to stay inside or in water.

That's for. The young crowd

Not true!

So true. Roll out the sideways at 9 that's what we say about T.O.

Not true. Bars last call 2 am, traffic all day and night

​@@Karen_in_Canada Hahahahaha! What are these things? Look at the boring gray buildings? Buy a Starbucks cafe? Drive for 90000 hours to get from point A to point B? Hahahaha!

I am not sure about that. Montreal is a fashion capital of Canada, and people there dress very well.

I think it’s more ‘casual atmosphere’ than casual wear. Montreal knows how to relax and have fun. Toronto…not so much.

Their is nothing well dressed about Toronto

@@andre_p That is true, but they still dress well doing it!

​@andre_p that's not true at all Toronto knows how to fun. Work hard play hard mentality

The issue is housing and urban fabric. Toronto is mostly US-style suburban, which makes the few walkable areas REALLY expensive as demand is so high. Montreal is super traditional on the island, so housing is way cheaper and anyone can afford to live in a decent area. Toronto could probably double the population overnight if they built the housing as the price of housing is the majority reason for anyone not to live here.

@@tristanridley1601 Aside from Old Montreal, does Toronto have an equivalent to Mount Royal park? or Sherbrooke street from Westmount to McGill U?!!

Just visit Montreal. Quebec has been destroyed by Mr. Legault nd his disgusting government, he is pure poison for our country and attacks the Anglophone community and education systems. He is treasonous and it should be charged with high treason.

@@TomHuston43 Toronto has lots of large natural parks, but they are ravines, not mountains. The Don, Humber, and Rouge rivers each have a large park system. I'm not sure what's special about Sherbrooke St? Based on some google searches and street view, it sounds like it's just a busy route with lots of fancy stuff? That's one area where Toronto has PLENTY. If you like there, check out Bloor near University in Toronto. What Toronto is completely missing is Westmount, Plateau, Rosemont, etc. All the old neighbourhoods of small dense buildings. Most experts say that's why Toronto is SO much more expensive.

I lived 2 years in Toronto. You can't have real friends over there, only 'business related friends". It's way too much like any other USA big city.

Quebec has a bad reputation as being anti non-francophone but I think the overwhelming majority of the people appreciate those who try even if it's not perfect. In my entourage at the very least, I know that it's not so much intolerance towards those who don't want to learn French as much as it is a feeling of disrespect, a language is fundamental to one's culture and when moving to a new place and refusing (by choice) from attempting to learn the language of the people it can come off as rejecting their culture itself. Generally, we are very happy to get served by a broken french accent, because at least it shows an attempt to at least try and learning a language takes years we get it and French is far from the easiest language to learn. But there's always going to be some ***holes where ever you go but I think generally speaking we are supportive and want to help people learn our language.

@@MastrHyperion98 I am an hardcore defender of the French language in Québec and I 100% agree with you. If you try to speak it and show that you want to learn and integrate , nobody will give you shit. The people that bash Quebec and don't bother to learn the language can go home. We don't need them.

Dream on

Unless you speak English or you want to get access to the public health system apparently. And I mean that honestly. Those are my two complaints so far. Montreal seems to be doing a lot of other stuff right. Of course if I dived in I'm sure I'd have political complaints galore, but I have those about America, BC, Alberta and Newfoundland too.

Montreal is anything but clean

Prefer Montreal or Quebec City. Every time I go to Toronto I can’t wait to leave. With over four centuries of family history in Quebec I’m slightly biased, though

Toronto is far better. Better entertainment better and more restaurants better public transit cleaner friendlier

​@@FloydRunner2049*slightly* LMAO

@@autograndeunlimited One prob with TO is all the highways with just a stop sign. And tolls suck. Way too flat for me, too

Heh, that’s cause a lot of us are English :)

Toronto Argonauts are in the CFL

This is correct except for football being developed in Canada first. It was actually developed in parallel in Canada and the US. When McGill (Montreal University team) played Harvard (US University team), they used the home team's rules. A lot of rules made it from one side to the other this way. The rules still remained different through the decades in many ways, which is why to this day there's Canadian football and American football.

@@michelleyarrow2827we know the Argos are in the CFL. Still the second oldest 🏈 team in the world.

@@Zombie-lx3sh Was it McGill or McMaster that started putting holes in the Baskets for Basketball? I am trying to recall that old Heritage Minute from my childhood. XD

Not cute at all ! Speak English or speak French but don't attempts to speak both in the same sentence. You would only end-up with a jello brain and a mix-up discourse!

That's exactly ça

C’est franglais.

Oui, it's magnifique!

J’aime the way que ta robe à hang

Toronto also has a geodesic dome in the form of the Cinesphere IMAX 350 degree theatre at Ontario Place located on Toronto's waterfront. The site is now scheduled for redevelopment and not sure whether the Cinesphere will be renovated or demolished.

source?

"My source is that I made it the f--- up"

@@MuteCanadian 🤣🤣🤣

@@MuteCanadian 🤣

Bingo!

I laugh every time I hear him make such comments. Typical American thinking that the weather instantly changes when you cross the Canada-US border.

@@terryslipp3148 If you have ever seen a US TV weather report you will note that all weather systems begin and end at the borders. Canada & Mexico don't exist.

@@terryslipp3148 I think I've come to understand that Americans hear you're from Canada and they picture this massive land that stretches way up to the arctic and they imagine that our cities might be up around Hudson Bay or the NWT, not mostly under 100 miles from their border.

Exactly 😂 The us border is 45min drive from Montreal. Toronto is even closer. Almost on the border 😂

Most Americans don't realize there are states far north of Toronto.

To be honest i feel like Québec City have more european flair than Montréal.

@@TheNightlessFallyeah on the 7 historic streets they have 😂😂😂. Drive 10 minutes and you’re pushed in peak american looking suburbia unlike montreal

Might because i'm from Québec city, but last time i visited Montreal i found it ugly and dirty... Not helped by the eye sore that is the Olympic stadium and all the road work

great explanation

beige like poo color beige?

Toronto would clearly be blue well Montreal is red even though Montreal is typically blue in English is red

@@fantasy8833 it depend where you walk... sometimes it's brown with some needles and pipes around it ...

Probably because you don't live there. Montreal is a shithole. the only thing they have is amazing food. Everything else is shit. Shit road, shit infinite construction, No parking, stupid bike paths even in winter. I could go on but i would be here until next year typing lol

And ottawa is grey

potholes,drugs addicts ,gang violence its not the paradise except for the woke mayor...

Toronto is known for having 2 seasons. Winter and construction

I challenge anybody to a full day on the 401 between Oshawa and Milton. Montreal traffic (although horrendous) is peanuts compared to the permanent gridlock and countless accidents on the 401.

@@Faz99Master Toronto is well known to be an hour of car removed from Toronto.

That's no different in Toronto, where we only have two seasons; Winter and Construction. Toronto currently has more cranes in the air, mostly building condos, than any other city in the world.

As a New Brunswicker, who spent the worst 3 miserable years of her life living in Toronto, I can agree that Toronto sucks.

@@fippodegyeoolies3629 Hey! I grew up in Fredericton! I came to Montreal in 1987 to go to McGill, and I never left. 🙂

They won the most because they created an unfair rule called the French canadian rule. And no people in Toronto work hard and play hard. Toronto is a better city in every way every Canadian city is jealous its the business hub of Canada

​@fippodegyeoolies3629 no it doesn't otherwise it wouldn't be so much demand to live in it

I lived the first half of my life in Montreal, and the second half in Southern Ontario, but I never noticed an appreciable difference in the amount of rain.

@@terryomalley1974 I also remember the first snow fall when I was a kid was measured in feet not inches!😎😁

@rodmckeav1159 In Montreal, for sure! My mom still has a photo of my brother and myself when we were 4 and 5 at the end of the driveway at our house in DDO, and the snowbanks were three times our height (8-9 feet high).

@@terryomalley1974 I grew up in Saint Laurent and Cartierville area and there was one of the snow dumps not far away from us . We had slides and caves that definitely were not safe but boy was it fun!!😎😂

Non

Dépend ou.. clairement pas Montréal-Nord.

@@TheNightlessFallToronto a comme 4 quartiers comme Montreal nord donc oui, on est pas mal ici

Est-ce que t’est déjà allé à Montréal nord même? C’est beaucoup moins pire que ce les medias le font laraitre

@@TheNightlessFall Effectivement lollll

A competition between Montréal bagels and NYC would be insane!

and steamers mmmmmm

@@TheNightlessFall There was actually. If I remember well, Montréal won by hair.

Ontario is a bilingual Province!

Ernie, ontario is not officially billinugal

@@quackywhackityphillyb.3005 Ontario has a regionalized language policy, where part of the province is English-only and other areas are bilingual. Province-wide services (such as websites and toll-free telephone numbers) are provided in both English and French.

Yes New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province in Canada, but it's bilingualism rate is lower than Québec. But still much higher than any other province. Bilingualism rates: Québec: 46,4% New brunswick: 34% Ontario: 10% Canada outside quebec: 9,5% Canada is not really billingual outside Québec and New Brunswick.

New Brunswick is Canada's only officially bilingual province. This is because the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms specifically recognizes that English and French are the official languages of New Brunswick.

Ce sont les Français qui ont fondé Montréal en 1642, nulle autre nation. Après la conquête britannique de 1760, les vainqueurs ont développé Montréal. Les maires Codère et Plante y ont ajouté les Premières Nations et les Écossais. C'est un mensonge historique, purement électoraliste.

@@m.boivin8671 "This is a historical, purely electoral lie."??

Fair enough. I'll concede that the French founded the city, but it was the English, Irish, and Scottish who largely developed it​@capricornebete-a-cornes8671

avant que la voie maritime du ne soit creusée sur la rive-sud du Saint-Laurent, les grands navires s'arrêtaient à Montréal. C'est ce qui amené Toronto à grandir au détriment de Montréal par la suite.

@@Vincent-re6uo Oui,,absolument vrai!

What else happened in 1976? The election in Quebec of the separatist party, the PQ. That caused English-speaking business owners and many English-speaking Montrealers, my own family among them, to flee to Ontario, which led to Toronto surpassing Montreal as Canada's largest city and leading economic centre.

@@terryomalley1974 You will find that the possibility for big ships to travel further into the great lakes actually pushed the growth of Toronto. This shift would probably have happened no matter the political parties.

No they aren't

@@mrg0th1er83 Not just the use of the great lakes for transport, but Toronto's population growth wouldn't be possible anywhere else in Canada without the use of a lake-based system for wastewater treatment and water servicing

​​@@terryomalley1974 The population shift started decades before that, the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959 was the actual turning point.

It didn't threatened it, it completely disrupted it

We also have French immersion schools in Ontario if you choose to learn to be bilingual

Don't forget smoke meat and bagels.

Incorrect. They're both derived from Latin. In latin, 'anglo' means English, 'franco' means French, and 'phone' means speaker.

@@GoWestYoungMan Thank you for sharing your etymological knowledge with us, but I never intended to give the origin of these two words, which you obviously did not understand. I only offered a translation of two frequently used words in French, because Tyler did not know them. An example? Je parle français, donc je suis francophone. Vous parlez anglais, donc vous êtes anglophone. Definition of francophone: Qui parle le français (langue maternelle ou langue seconde). La population francophone de la Belgique. Immigrant francophone. francophone […] Où le français est parlé. Pays francophones d’Afrique. Écoles francophones et écoles anglophones de Montréal. francophone […] Relatif à la francophonie. Sommet francophone. francophone

@@Francois_Miron Anglophone and francophone are also english words, although they are used less commonly than in french. Source : a f**king dictionnary.

Tyler is anglophone, but he doesn’t seem to be aware of it…😂

@@franghanthe only english people who readily understand the word are english canadians and the reason should be obvious

Moh-ray-al

More like Mon-ray-al

Moe-Larry-Curly 😂😂

che' ron o = no T.

The "é" in Montréal is pronounced "a". (The letter "a") Like in the word Québec. The "é" with the accent pointed in that direction (accent aigu) is always pronounced like the letter A.

Speak for yourself, I'll speak ill of whatever I wish, such as Toronto's toxic work culture and Montreal's terrible roads.

@@noseboop4354 I wish you nothing but the best

Same! Trilingual here!

Same English French and Spanish

The October Crisis is why Pierre Eliott-Trudeau is so hated by the french Quebecois now, and Justin Trudeau did inherited some of the hatred from his father (but also his own ideas too)! I 'd rather call Montreal's airport Brian Mulroney then Pierre Eliott-Trudeau. Brian Mulroney did more as an irish-Quebecker to the bnefit of the province then PET in all his years in Ottawa,

There's a reason Toronto took over Montreal. Cuz it's better in basically every single way that's why there is so much more demand to live in Toronto than Montreal. Business is better. Sports are better. Entertainment is better. Public Transport is better. Toronto has way better night life more attractions more restaurants more and better shows etc. I could go on and on

@@leinad3643 Prime Ministers, are elected to serve the country, not just the province of Quebec... PM P.E.Trudeau's, home riding was Mount Royal, in Montreal, Quebec. He played a large roll in the fight to keep Quebec in Canada, leading up to the referendum He was elected with substantial majorities each time. There have been a few French PM's from Quebec, mostly Liberals! What did Mulroney do, that was so memorable, or should I say, beneficial? Mulroney was a crook, as I remember him LOL

@@autograndeunlimited Montreal made Toronto, what it is today. The exodus from Montrealer's to Toronto, started in the 1970's, due to the increasing language laws, which targeted the English.. Despite that, Montreal, will always have more Historical relevance, There was a time, when people who Immigrated to Canada, arriving in Montreal, they would stay and make their home there, adding to the restaurant and other ethnic wonders they brought with them. The govt would pay them to learn either French or English.. With the evolving French language laws, immigrants are only given French, as an option and their kids can only go to French schools.. I was born & raised in the outskirts of Montreal, when I had my son, We had to prove we attended English school, so our son could also.. So the city of Montreal, wasn't the problem, the Quebec govt and their separatist movement made Toronto, the English option.. Otherwise, Montreal is safer and the Toronto Make Beliefs, will never have as many Stanley cups, as Montreal 😂 Also if you want to see the Canadian Grand Prix, that's in Montreal. When did Toronto host the Olympics? Oh yeah, they never have, that was Montreal 😁 There was also the 1967 World Fair, not in Toronto, it was Montreal.... Montreal has also been ahead of Toronto, in public transportation for decades with it's metro system.. Torontonians are stuck up, and think Toronto is the center of the world, while Montreal hosts some of the largest festivals in the world. Fun fact, Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Sadly the Festival for Laugh's has been cancelled this year, but that's another famous one.. Patrick's Day Parade, since 1824, has been celebrated yearly, making it the oldest and largest after NYC's parade ( I remember being dragged to them. as a kid 60 years ago, running to keep up with my Irish Grandmother, who lived close enough to walk to the parade).. The current Ontario premier, doesn't recognize anything outside of Toronto, he welcomed our Governor General, who lives in Ottawa, to Ontario 🤦‍♀. You must be like minded? 🙄

@@paulirish7955 preach

Pearson is officially in Mississauga now(not Malton either). Dorval Airport is not in Montreal. So actually 1 International Airport in each city.

Montreal has only one international airport at the moment, St. Hubert will be coming in the next year or so, Mirabel is basically a freight terminal now.

Even though the Dorval airport is not IN the city of Montreal, it IS Montreal's international airport (actually called Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport). Mirabel airport is no longer working except for military transport.

That confused me too. I thought maybe they were talking about Downsview for the 3rd airport?

@@_Cinun_ I think that Downsview is being made into condominiums.

Lots of French speakers in Winnipeg and other towns in Manitoba. I learned it in school but if you don’t use it you lose it! I didn’t use it.😢

And even more English speakers in Montreal.

And Acadie

True, it's often overlooked because they aren't as famous then the Acadians, so we tend to forget they exists. But it's like 600,000 in a province of 13 millions while there is 800,000 english speakers on 9 million.

@@maryannkeena The last survey said 3.68% of Manitoban speak french as first language, But people forget that when it was created in 1870, Manitoba was a bilingual province because of the Métis. Half the propulation was speaking french. The new prime minister of Manitoba looks really cool and he'S the first Native-American prime minister ! I heard him speak french, he does a good job. You all know what John A. MacDonald (Canada's first prime minister) did to the Métis and Louis Riel. Chased them out of their land to bring more non-native american settlers to Manitoba. That's why the flag of Minnesota says "L'étoile du Nord" A lof of french speaking métis fled Manitoba to Minnesota. ! For those who do not know the Métis People are the children of European fur traders and native-american women. Some spoke french like Louis Riel, some spoke some sort of creole language that was a mix of french and a native language, I don't remember the name, and some were english speakers. But they all had their own cultures . This was greatly repress by John A. MacDonald who hated those that weren't white bristish protestants. Funny that he did in Canada what the british did to his own people in Scotland, he came from a poor Scot-Gaelic familly. To be fair, those languages are still struggling to survive in the UK, I guess welsh is the strongest celtic language with 500,000 speakers on 2 million of welsh. 60.000 Scot-Gaelic in Scotland, there is also Scot which is a sister language from english, but without the french vocabulary that came from Norman-french conquest of 1066. It's different from english but easy to mistake one for the other. The case of Ireland is the saddest I believe, even if the goverment is trying to make Gaelic back, between 40,000 to 80,000 irish says they are native speaker on a population of 5 millions.

Cantophones and mandophones are collectively called sinophones. 😊

Italophones, grecophones, hispanophones, lusophones, russophones....

Quebec isn't a french word, it's from an indigenous language and it means 'where the river narrows'.

The biggest reason for so many bilingual people is that to work for the federal government you have to speak both languages

Québec comes from Kébek which is an Indigenous word from the Algonquin language

@@cherylpowney8760 not that many people work there lol

New York City? American? Bro NYC is the least American city lmaooo. Toronto ressembles Chicago much more

IMO Montreal is a cross breed between Paris, London and NYC. Toronto is Chicago's doppelganger.

Don't need to speak French!

@@erniejohnston401yes you need unless you want to live in the Toronto-like areas of Montréal

So my question is, What’s stopping you from learning French? As a french speaker, I learned english, and 2 more languages

Oh you could come live here dear (yes, even if you don't speak French, but that would def limit your possibilities)! I'm a French-Quebecer and I speak 3 languages so I'm sure you could learn French if you put your heart into it. :) It's a matter first of learning and then practicing (whether watching movies, TV shows, speaking with French speakers, etc.)

@anthroponyme-451 dude really you show some respect your life most french people I met traveling through Quebec ignorant! If people travel to your lovely province speak their language when dealing with them!

1967 world fair. Great memories of that pavilion with the Mercury Space capsule on display.

Back in the 80s (I don't know how it is now) we started learning english in fourth grade and had english classes til the end of high school. That probably is one explanation for more bllingual people in Quebec, other than employment opportunities

Went to school in Ontario in the 90s early 2000s...had to take french from grades 3-9 (I took it all the way through high school + 1 year university)

In Québec french school we start English classes from like 1st or 2nd grade up until the second last year of high school. We also have 2 English classes to take in cégep

Downtown Toronto is the true definition of a concrete jungle. It's a hideous wind tunnel without sunlight. Just endless bland Grey concrete and glass high rises. Any building with any architectural character is demolished and replaced by something bland and boring. Toronto is the most under construction major city in the world. It's ugly, noisy and hideous. I'm originally from the west coast, beautiful BC but I've traveled across Canada numerous times from the West coast of Vancouver Island to the southern tip of Nova Scotia.

I think that for the comparison of the roads conditions, they are talking about the famous "nids-de-poule" everywhere... ;-)

@@AnabelleLiveGood Nid d'éléphants depuis que Valérie met tout l'argent dans des pistes cyclables loll

@@Evilslayer73vraiment 😂

Exactly! Try winter on the east coast with all the snow. That's brutal.

The exodus of head offices to Toronto was a racist reaction against Quebecers in the 1970s and 1980s. What does the head office of a company in a particular location represent in the context of economic globalization? A few hundred individuals no more. It is the employees of these companies who make the difference through their number and productivity. The decline of Montreal as a metropolis of Canada began well before the advent of the sovereignist movement, to the benefit of Ontario and Toronto in particular. It is federal initiatives that are at the origin of this decline, such as the construction of the seaway on the St. Lawrence to promote the port of Toronto in 1959, the Auto Pact in 1965 and many other initiatives of the federal government to weaken Quebec. If you have someone to blame fractious federalists !

Actually, the Anglo exodus from Montreal of the 70's and 80's had nothing to do with racism,but rather, reflected the lack of confidence of businesses in the province's political instability and the prospect of Quebec independence.

@@anthroponyme-451 No argument there.

I think that you are overdue to talk about Expo67 that was the main centennial event celebration of Canada. The story is pretty amazing! The bubble you saw was the American Pavillion for that world's fair. Against all odds, it was the most famous world's fair of the 20th century. You cannot learn about Canada and don't talk about it. There is an heritage minute about it but it doesn't say much. There are pretty good videos explaining everything but they are about 40 minutes long. Anyway, there is no way to avoid it if you really want to understand the true nature modern Canada.

@@stephanelarin1748 Expo 67 was Canada’s coming of age in the world. The Liberals were pushing us into the modern era whereas the Conservatives still saw Canada as nothing more than hewers of wood and diggers of ore. They didn’t even want a flag of our own.

Like NYC and London both speak english, but the accent is different.

I find the total (immatriculation + insurance) was cheaper in Quebec than Ontario.

Actually, the average cost of a car insurance is waaaaaaay higher in Toronto (2325$) vs Montreal (800$). Those datas are from 2023

Though not officially so.

no it's New Brunswick

Really? Seems that the CAQ wants to get rid of English.

@@trainglen22lol

@@c.th.5880 While N.B. is the only officially bilingual province, it can't possibly be the most bilingual. There's that strip of Acadia along the Northumberland Strait that's Francophone. A lot of what was Acadia is in Nova Scotia though. I grew up in New Brunswick, and while we did take French from Grade 3 to Grade 12, we hardly graduated as bilingual. Despite our "official" status. Stats Can says that 34% of New Brunswick is bilingual, while 46% of Quebec is bilingual.

That's actually not true. Offcial bilingualism only applies to federal institutions and services l, not provincial or municipal (cities).

The decline of Montreal as a metropolis of Canada began well before the advent of the sovereignist movement, to the benefit of Ontario and Toronto in particular. It is federal initiatives that are at the origin of this decline, such as the construction of the seaway on the St. Lawrence to promote the port of Toronto in 1959, the Auto Pact in 1965 and many other initiatives of the federal government to weaken Quebec. If you have someone to blame, blame fractious federalists like you! The exodus of head offices to Toronto was a racist reaction against Quebecers in the 1970s and 1980s. What does the head office of a company in a particular location represent in the context of economic globalization? A few hundred individuals no more. It is the employees of these companies who make the difference through their number and productivity. Quebecers are very attached to their French language and culture, which is almost 500 years old.

No, it saved Montreal. Otherwise it would have to live in the shadow of big english cities such as London and New York (and yes, nobody outside of Canada cares about Toronto).

Actually, it was the election of a separatist government in the 70's that saw many large corporations move their head office to TO.

The decline of Montreal as a metropolis of Canada began well before the advent of the sovereignist movement, to the benefit of Ontario and Toronto in particular. It is federal initiatives which are at the origin of this decline, such as the construction of the seaway on the St. Lawrence river to favor the port of Toronto in 1959, the Auto Pact in 1965 and many other initiatives of the federal government to weaken Quebec. If you have someone to blame, blame fractious federalists. What does the head office of a company in a particular location represent in the context of economic globalization? A few hundred individuals no more. It is the employees of these companies who make the difference through their number and productivity. Among the industries specific to each city, the fields of pharmacology and aircraft manufacturing were not mentioned, just like the numerous universities and major schools attached to them, concerning Montreal, which makes it the most interesting city for international students.

The French culture is what makes Montreal and Quebec so attractive, so different, so European-like cities, full of life at night. I lived 2 years in Toronto. You don't have real friends in Toronto, you have 'business related friends'. Plus, Toronto was just like any other big American city. Nothing special about it. Must be the Catholic vibe...

Quebecers are very attached to their French language and culture, which is almost 500 years old. If the sole question of language caused the head offices of multinationals to flee to Toronto, this approach is purely racist and hypocritical on their part, because most of these companies continue to do business in Quebec and derive large profits from it. Example: Sun Life Financial, which was one of the first institutions to move its head office from Montreal to Toronto after the PQ election in November 1976. However, the company continues to do lucrative business in Quebec. In what language do these companies do business when they establish themselves in Mexico, Brazil or France, for example? Why is it different when it comes to Quebec?

Yes. Worse than Toronto.