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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We were also disappointed by McGill’s tuition increase, which is explicitly designed to discourage applications outside of the Province. Another thing is that your kid won’t be able to get a[b] part time job or internship in Montreal unless they are certified fluent in French[/b].[/quote]

I can't find any evidence of this. I found evidence that international students won't be able to get a work permit AFTER they graduate or else they speak basic French, but they can work while they are enrolled.

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Yeah, everyone in Montreal speaks English fluently anyway. [/quote]

Not true.  Maybe for young people but when we there in the summer there were older folks that I wanted to speak with that didn’t speak English, only French.  I was surprised!  [/quote]

haha. they probably just didn't want to talk to YOU[/quote]

It was just striking that people older than me said they couldn’t speak English and yet younger people were ok to.  It seemed generational.

For example, I wanted to buy a book in a store and they had to find a younger person to speak English with me. This was in a neighborhood 5 miles from McGill.

And all the signs and directions are in French.  I just expected it to be more bilingual and was a bit caught off guard that French truly is the primary language in Montréal.  [/quote]

You sound really ignorant and very American.[/quote]

You sound dumb. The pp is spot on. It is weird in Quebec to even see stop signs in French. In France and all of Europe, stop signs are in English. Quebec is weirdly French obsessed. I have a friend in Montreal who wanted to send her kids to an English-speaking k-12 school but she was not allowed to. Her husband is French Quebec and if that is your heritage, the government forces you to send your kids to a French school to preserve the French heritage[/quote]

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