Avec cette mentalité tu es maintenant québécois

tu es le bienvenue au Quebec . Tu es une personne unique et une inspiration .

S'il y avait plus de personnes comme toi, le monde serait meilleur. Avec une telle attitude, tu as déjà gagné le cœur des Québécois et tu n'auras aucun problème a t'intégrer et a découvrir la riche culture Québécoise.

tu as un bon français! moi je suis français et j'apprends l'anglais pour partir à montreal ahah

I don't want to be the Debbie Downer, but I'll tell you this: if you're an anglophone, regardless of how good your French is, Québec is not the place for you. If you have doubt, read some of the other comments on this thread. They demand respect from us, but don't respect us. I've lived here my whole life, and things only seem to grow more tense.

There are consequences and repercussions for voting for the wrong fiscal policies from governments for decades upon decades…

​@@veeli1106 Voting will not change anything

@@GIoo-yc9jz In a democracy where the only qualifications for voting are age and citizenship, you are correct on that point.

​@@veeli1106 what are you talking about? We've voted for different parties municipally, provincially, and federally. Nothing has changed.

It's all because of mass immigration. I'm not blaming immigrants themselves, but rather blaming the government for allowing in this many people. Canada accepted more than 1 million immigrants in 2022. It is unsustainable, it is causing a housing crisis, it is changing the cultures of Canada much too rapidly, and it's all thanks to Trudeau. If you love this country, vote Conservative.

Que de bons souvenirs et comme on se sentait bien et fier de notre belle culture naissante. Harmonium, Paul Piché. Essayez de les retrouver aujourd'hui.

I was lucky to go to those places. Sad to see things like those disappear.

Don't worry about the anglos lol worry about all the nakers destroying your land and pimping your white daughters..........

Montreal is quickly becoming a second Toronto. This is what mass immigration and multiculturalist policy create.

"Yet another predominantly Anglo American" LOLOLOL. dude, you can worry about American chains making our city Generic, but I don't think you have to worry about those boogie man Anglos. 20% of the Entire Island is Anglo and they're mostly in westmount and the west Island. The other anglos on the rest of the Island make up a minuscule amount. You sound like a CAQ or PQ propagandist.

This could also be a description ofToronto’s Kensington Market. “An Instagram caricature of itself” is spot on.

Wow! My aunt's worked in one of them.... Can't believe all the new condo buildings that are now replacing the Made in Montreal tags...

Yea let’s bring the factories back so everyone can play hide and seek😂

In the late 90’s, it's when public transit started to go down. I move to Toronto in 1994. Then the city said the fares were high because of low ridership. By the early 2000, then they said the fares were high because of a 6% rise in ridership. Go figure.

Oh forget it! The former cities of Vancouver and Toronto are long dead and gone. After being basically att acked for almost four decades, those places are just "zones" now. It's a Crimes Against Humanity and Treason to citizens of the places, and same for any other country going through this crime. Canada's situation is worse though, because the damage was further done with stopping or suppressing further building of mass transit, as well as Maas immigration for almost three or four decades. The amount of people let in during those periods, are basically a medium-sized city each year. The gov't, developers and corporations (The lines are blurred haha) need to grow up, flex their muscles and show off what they can do by building new cities. That's how cities and towns started anyway. But it's too late: this must have been done a long time ago.

@@alexsdb9712 I know the TTC has been lacking in it's service for decades. It became obvious that the system was becoming overburdened even before the migrant crisis. Toronto roads and highways are congested as hell. The city either has to spend billions on public transit and hopefully in a decade you get some improvement or somehow curb the influx of people coming to live there. The cost of living in cities like Toronto are pushing long-term residents who still want quality of life to leave and in their place we have one giant government supported "refugees" center.

agreed. its changed for the worse since 2007 or so

Is French still widely spoken? 😢 I hope French remains in Quebec forever❤️❤️🤍🤍 I’m currently learning the language now

The next Toronto ? How do you mean ? Montreal has no interest in being the next great American city.

@@oliviamedeiros8882 i would not be so sure about this im in the building industry and we build only american style now nothing like it was before...

@@jekl3loodmoon642 I meant about culture...

Vote with your wallet. And stop being over-tolerant.

Have you been to the Tam Tams recently? a mere shadow of what once was. There are usually 2 polarized competing drummer areas...the traditional one in front of the Angel statue and now, another , further up the hill...so u gotta hear a double bass hit when you get nearby. Kinda polarized ? There are maybe a few hundred people around the drummer area where there used to be 1000's...the park is busy but everyone is spread out over a vast area of parkland. Definitely dying out post Covid. And don't get me started on how magnificent the Tam Tams were when I first moved here over 20 years ago when Montreal was kinda almost bankrupt, racist politicians were rampant (some things never change) and the city had an almost decadent Berlin like atmosphere and was so different from Toronto , where I'd previously lived. Well, all that has changed as this city joins the gentrification bandwagon. The Tam Tams were where everyone who was cool met on a Sunday. One would rise, rather late, likely with a hangover, and just head over,alone, to the Tams in the areas where your friends usually hanged around 3 or 4pm..No cell phones but you always met up with friends from all over the city. In those days , it was a free for all, anarchistic hippy-like gathering where everything was a go. Gays and straights would just wander up into the woods for some sex al flagrante, people wandered about selling weed, mushrooms, cocktails out of large thermoses and food galore , often barbecued , delicious and from around the world...but they were not "licensed" so the city wasn't making any money out of this brilliant , very busy , Sunday event. And the big handsome shirtless burly boys who'd walk about carrying big garbage pails filled with iced beers for sale...It was absolutley brilliant. The city and the cops turned a blind eye and pretty much let us have our fun on our holiest of days. And then the police state started to transform the city...the prostitutes were driven away from St Catherine and St Laurent, the Village gay bars closed down their back rooms...all of the low lying bushes in parc Lafontaine were cut down and police surveillance picked up for the hunt of gay men who used to frequent the parks for fun. The "city" announced that one could drink alcohol in a park, only if you had a picnic lunch with you. One could be ticketed if you'd already finished the food but were still drinking. The cops swept through the Tam Tams ticketing and busting tons of people every Sunday with the claim that "the bikers and drug dealers" had taken over the event and that violence was on the rise in the park. Nonsense...there may have been some sort of gang infiltration because there was a lot of drug use in the park but it was mostly weed. Its a peaceful hippy Sunday gathering. All of the "illegal" food vendors were ticketed (health dept.) and the alcohol sales dissappeared. We now had to bring our own booze and food but always had to keep an eye out for the cops. People stopped going, en masse, and it just became a tourist trap . The suburbanites gathered and all of the cool downtown/Plateau people stopped going. Its really sad...but .Montreal has become , a lot, like any other big american city. I left Toronto for a reason. Still a great city...at least the people. On another note, My room mate was recently fined a 150$ ticket for smoking a joint right at the Tam Tams by police. He is a big Latino boy who was alone and minding his own business. The facist racist conservative separatist government in Quebec city are forced to legalize weed , but here you're only allowed to smoke it at home. It is illegal to smoke cannabis ANYWHERE outside in quebec. Pathetic really...people still smoke weed in droves all over the city , but do watch out cause Montreal ain't that cool anymore.

r u talking of income tax? sales tax?drinks in mtl and going out in general is more expensive. but if you like going for bike rides and social local events in montreal such as dance clubs then Mtl is more affordable. the bixi is more affordable. the communauto is less expensive than evo carshare. insurance is much cheaper than icbc. of course rent is more than half the price as opposed to Vancouver. it depends what you are doing with your life. if you live downtown montreal and go out clubbing a few times a week than its more expensive than living in Burnaby and going for nature walks, of course.

@@ktowniecity7269 hey ktown. my paychecks are half of what they were in vancouver, this is because the wage is 3 dollars lower and they put tips on your payslip so you get taxed on those too. I definitely agree food and drinks are a little ore expensive. rent is also not half vancouver, i'd say if you're lucky it's a third cheaper, you'd be lucky to get a nicer one bedroom in a decent neighborhood of montreal like mile end for less than 1300. a similar apartment in say, mount pleasant in vancouver would be around 2000.

@@tomlevitt4133 mille end is the hip area. id compare it more to commerical drive in vancouver more so than the old industrial part of vancouver and mount pleasant but yeah both are much more expensive than MTL. there are 1 bedroom apts available in verdun-ndg for 800-1000$, you just have to look a bit instead of relying on online ads. income tax is definitely the thing. i easily make 200-300$ less in mtl a pay cheque but save 150$ on car insurance a month and about 700$ on rent. its easily much cheaper in mtl compared to vancouver after living in both cities over 10 years but if you live in the mille end and work and play in the bar scene it will always be much more expensive

The subway is more affordable than Vancouver . You can drink in parks, housing is much affordable than Vancouver ..... If you go to farmers markets for food it is way cheaper , biking is amazing . Nature is everywhere and accessible . A lot of activities are free and offer by public librairies and cities .

@@jeanbolduc5818 And I also forgot to say that there aren't a million homeless everywhere in MTL unlike in Vancouver. They are well overdue for an earthquake in the ring of fire. Forest fires are a yearly concern now in a more dry climate with air pollution being a major concern for your lungs. They had major flooding last time in was there in 2021 that washed out all the highways including farmland in Abbotsbord, BC. The west coast has a ton of social and environmental issues not to mention every city is far as all hell whereas you can travel to almost anywhere on the east coast by car from mtl in 5-8 hrs. The benefits far outweigh any negatives besides the French and the cold but both those two factors also keep out all of the less agreeable and riff raff of society.

So what?

@@elhassanhannouni6598 Rent goes up in central parts of the city and it's chasing long-term residents in favor of temporary resident. Heck, I was driving in the McGill area when the semester was over and students were moving, the streets full of trash, broken furnitures all over the place.

@@cedric3883 I understand where you're coming from, but i just didn't see the correlation, i think the area is not only made of international students, plus the people renting places are the ones favorizing itl students because they can make a larger profit bu overpricing. And the fact that there was broken furniture i would redirect you to the times where people broke everything in the nineties when the habs won the cup, and i didn't see any people of color on the footage, I AM NOT TRYING TO BE RACIST, i just want to show that whenever there are large groups of people, a small group tends to do bad stuff which gives off a bad image of the larger group, which is unfortunate. My point is, generalizing is bad, and no matter where you live, there will be good or bad, regardless of their status or their race.

@@cedric3883 To be fair, this is not a recent phenomenon. Been growing for decades. And it is a Canadian-wide. And I have no problem in attracting young people from around the world to study here and then make it their home. As far as I am concerned, they are welcome.

Im a soon to be international and hate corporatism just as much as the next person. It's the tasteless folk with big buck and little brains.

Un peu . Beaucoup ! Le marais n'est plus même après 20 ans d'absence

et pendant ce temps, les Français on élue Valerie Plante et aime ses mesures dévastatrices, qui ont fait que les Français sont parti de France, les taxes augmentent parce quelle n'aime pas Montreal, elle ne fait rein pour améliorer mais dépense des millions pour des âneries, regardez les rues, les trottoirs et les changements pour le pire, le plateau était tres vivant avant, maintenant personne ne veux y aller parce que c'est ridicule. La rue St-Denis est tellement stupide comme aménagement, c'est pas pour rien que les commerces disparaissent, Elle détruit tout ce qu'elle touche.

@@acarriere8534 Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous ! On perd ce qui fait notre identité. :(

@@acarriere8534 " les français ont élu Valérie Plante" ?? La majorité des français n'ont pas de droit de vote et en plus même s'ils avaient le droit ils ont pas le nombre pour faire fléchir le vote ! Mdr vous êtes victime de vos préjugés et ignorance !

@@acarriere8534 " les âneries" l??? C'est pas parce-que vous êtes pas d'accord que ses des âneries. Il fait sortir de votre petit confort personnel. Une ville C'est fait pour les citizens qui y vivent pas pour les voitures !

Totally true ! And it is often the same people to blame that the cities are dead

You understand that 90% of quebec is french. How can u say french is disappearing?

@@TheSinfuljustice it used to not so long ago that it 51% of people spoke French in Montreal, it is now less than 50%

@Caetano.Galli.Gonzalez I think your opinion is based on whatever small interactions you're making in your personal life that doesn't reflect actual percentages and survey studies in reality. Of the 9 million+ people who populate quebec 8 million speak French (first language). Within the 1 million who are considered to have other languages as their mother tongue, 25% of those people are fluently bilingual. French isn't going anywhere in quebec with the language laws in place. Unfortunately, for a very stubborn demographic, the importance of English is not valued in a vast majority of French households. You don't learn English. You close doors it's just that simple of a concept to understand. You remain in a minority mentality as well, which is often less progressive, more victimized, and progressing is very slow going. It's a hard language to capture young and even harder as you get older. It's unfortunate, but it's reality. But come back to Québec in 500 years from now, and there will most definitely be a majority populous of French speakers. IF we keep immigration in check!

@@Caetano.Galli.Gonzalez Malheureusement, il y en a qui refusent de voir la vérité en face. C'est triste, franchement.

​@@TheSinfuljustice i once worked downtown in service sector. Many do not try to speak french and use the racist card when they encountered some salty moments due to their disrepectful attitude. In Rome do as Romans do

This guy is a strange character : he has been for years in Montréal and apparently an advocate of learning languages but his command of French still seems rather poor and broken, far from "local" and fluent. What I also mean by that is that culturally he seems totally cut off from Québécois culture. Well I don't know his life for sure but I would not count on him to have any clue on the Montréal atmosphere from la Révolution tranquille till the 80s. For instance he probably doesn't know who Robert Charlebois or René Levesque are... It's amazing how so many "anglophones" on YT do say how they appreciate Montréal for its French/European vibe but seem totally ignorant and distant to any Québécois culture (or even French). As if to them "French" just comes down to a few basic civilities in French ("bonjour, merci"), some old buildings near the port and a couple of food clichés (poutine, queues de castor, ...).

I was in Italy (Rome) back in 2018. With all the amazing Italian food and charcuteries that one can choose, I was amazed to see people going into Subway for sandwiches. I've lived most of my life in NYC (since 7 yrs old) and had my fair share of these fast food chain store but it only taught me that these are not good and definitely not healthy food. They're disgusting! So, when people use the term 'comfort food', I still don't get it bc I don't find it comforting at all. It actually makes my stomach and digestion quite uncomfortable. I also wonder if it is the amount of medications people are on and if that has an effect on their taste buds.

400 yrs or 500 yrs. Time to decide

No it's not

@@emiriebois2428 En fait, ni l'un ni l'autre, Montréal ayant été fondé en 1642. En 2023, Montréal serait dans sa 381e année depuis sa fondation.

Quebec is French today because it is a province within Canada.

@Terry Hall it's an old debate. On the long run, Chinese, Hindi, and Arabic will be the dominant languages with English.

PS - I did make it till the end ;-)

No it isn't. The sentiment in the USA is one of anger and resentment, the one from English Canadians is one of animosity towards francophones; whereas for montrealers it is a feeling of regret and loss (not towards the language...as it was already a multilingual area) but rather the multi faceted (different cultures/races/foods/religion (beliefs)) communal relationships that have dwindled, as more and more "lifeless" corporations are integrated there. A independent business owner must not only make money but has to mingle with the community as too flourish. Whereas a corporation is there only to supply a need but brings nothing to a community (in the larger sense of it) other than employment.

@robert-antoinedenault5901 Respectfully, we can also say that the sentiment of French Canadians toward anglophones is one of intolerance and animosity. At least, that's what being an anglophone in Québec for my entire life has taught me. We're quick to point fingers, but the problem is equally bad on both sides.

But you invites them without telling them what the activity is so you only get the interesting people willing to risk it for the experience 🔥