Canada's Most CHARMING & EUROPEAN City! (Montreal)

Dumb fu*ks. A nation must be big enough, strong enough to defend itself. From external and internal threats. 4 or 5 guys with paintball guns would wrap up your little duchy in a day. And have a dictator installed in a few hours. It took hundreds of years for America to fall. With its fall all the shoebox micro countries in the West will be eating each other or prostrating themselves to some Putin-esque character before you know it. Being young, dumb...And having read a chapter or two of Das Kapital, does not a nation make.

Montreal is the international capital of Canada. It is a very "UN-oriented" city, with agencies like the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). After New York and Washington, it has the highest number of international organizations in the Americas – 68 to be precise.
Montreal can count on a large pool of highly bilingual (56% of the population speaks French and English, compared to 7% in Toronto and Vancouver) and multilingual (24% of the population speaks three languages, compared to 13% in Toronto and 12% in Vancouver.

Canada is sick of them. Let them separate, put a big fence around it with barbed wire

The young people in Québec seem to have little care for the economic depression that ended up forcing an economic migration of large numbers of Québécois to the United States (New England), where we're called Franco-Americans. Most of us do not speak French, and yet we've somehow or other managed to retain some understanding of our culture and some pride in Québec. We've had to deal with the KKK organizing against us, parts of New England making French-language instruction illegal, the pressures to assimilate into American culture, and the pain of having constantly-mispronounced names and the self-consciousness of knowing that when we DO decide to learn French, we are being taught Parisian French and that our speech will always have an American accent. It's been a wild century and change for us. I would agree that we're all defined in some way by our relationship to what is French, both in a linguistic and cultural sense, both in a positive sense and (for many of us) a sense of loss. My great-great grandfather was on the masthead of a French-language newspaper in the USA, so my ancestors really were trying to keep the language alive here despite the headwinds.

But I think Canada is stronger together. The exact things Québec wants are wanted by Canadian indigenous communities, with a lot of positive things just now beginning to happen, and perhaps there could be enough coalitional will to displace English and Anglo-centrism and make it embarrassing to be monolingual. The Alberta independence referendum push is being driven by online radicalization seeded by American interests, and I worry that some of this is coming from that root, too, of America trying to neutralize its neighbor to the North using divide-and-conquer tactics. But these feelings could be due to where I'm coming from as a Franco-American and feeling othered.

All that said, reflecting on my Québécois heritage has led me to try and improve my language skills and connections to the province, but I'm also thinking as someone living in America that I really want to make a better effort with Spanish here, so I've started on that pathway as well. On peut essayer.

Tenha uma otima tarde pra todos voces aí, gente.

Que super legal, gostei.

You talk a lot about food, and you didn't go to Schwartz's for a smoked meat sandwich??!!!

The Quebec independence movement is one of the biggest contributors to Toronto's economic growth. The amount of money and businesses we see leaving the province every year because of it and due to unfriendly French laws. It's a nice ideal in theory, but unfortunately all Quebecers are poorer because of it.

Montreal is one of my favourite cities in Canada, but I also want to mention that there's francophone communities all through Canada, and they each have their mix of cultures too. There's this idea I think some people have (not necessarily you, or at least not mentioned in the video as such, just in general) where they think it's the anglo-west vs Quebec, and there's a lot of historical reasons for that (part of my family is from the region and it used to be basically illegal to be francophone, causing a whole generation of lost culture, which is why Quebec has fought so hard to keep what they can), but it makes me a little sad that all the other franco-canadian communities get forgotten in that conversation. Canada is large, and there's a wide array of cultures and communities across it all, but there's more that connects us than people sometimes seem to think.

Montreal different quebec different but in canada, and it s fine,now the world will have a very hard time and we are in include,stay healthy because it will be sickening.

You're so good. I'm from Montreal. You got it. I live in Taiwan at the moment. Thanks for the memory lane.

POLITIC and GEOGRAPHICALLY YES IT IS 100%, but about MENTALLY IS NOT. they thinking EXACTLY like blacks they are in reality EXACTLY blacks painting in WHITE. The city of Montreal NOW is a THIRD WORLD CITY, NOT CLEAN,GARBAGE EVERYWHERE WHERE like a african city. BAD STREETS, FULL of HOLES EVERYWHERE

It's understandable that outsiders associate the French language with France. But please be advised: Francophone Québec culture is no closer to France's culture than American culture is close to England's culture. (Québecois and "les Français-de-France" don't even feel much mutual affection, tbh.) Québec is a North American place, and its society has developed in isolation from Europe for hundreds of years now – its closest neighbours being English-speaking Canada and the USA.
That said: Yes, some of the oldest architecture here evokes its direct European influence.

La meilleur province du Canada J'adore le Quebec

I hear they call Montréal the Paris of The North 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

An Independent Quebec is not necessary. They already have control of everything in Quebec

I am french canadian but I do not like the radical Québécois who would tyranize the province if it ever became independant and thta's the reason it will never be independent.

Montréal is my favorite city on our planet for all the reasons you've mentioned and discovered. I miss it in the fiber of my being, and I wait up daily and hear English, and rediscover how much I miss the French, the city's culture and the ambiance if la Grande Montréal. Elle me manque au coeur.

No c’est les deux. C’est Le Québec et Le Canada. La question a déjà failli deux fois.
Et c’est « Mohn-re-al » pas « Mont-tri-all ». Si vous voulez fouiller mon nouveau pays, il faut parler correctement.

Big stereotype. I'm from the province of Québec. I am canadian and proud. I don't want Québec to separate ever, like the majority of the society.

Statement or question?

as montrealer such a great representation.....while i don't identify with the seperatist movement here in quebec you did a good job at capturing the very alive elements in this comeback of culture. Happy to have found your channel!

It made me happy to hear the young people proud to be Québécois but also proud to be Canadian and do not want to separate from Canada! United we stand!

These people....don't drink Molson....even if it's the oldest beer in the Americas....made in Montreal for 250 years !!! They want to erase the fact that Montreal has 50% anglophone roots. That in the 1870s.....the city doubled in population with the Irish immigrants....which meant there were twice as many English speakers as francophones. La fleur de lys is only one of the five founding people on the Montreal city flag.....

Wonderful video ❤

As a Belgian I don't see them as French people. But they share a very Francophone culture that see Art, Culture and food as paramount values, in that they are very European too. I've been visiting on 2 occasions and I noticed that they are also definitely North-Americans too, but they share a lot of European culture too, and they also import ideas from Europe.

Great video, the ending was perfecttt

Hearing that "poutine is the most iconic CANADIAN meal" is just another reason of why Quebec should ba a country. So frustrating.

I actually prefer poppy seeds on St.-Viateur bagels to sesame seeds.

Quebec separation hasn't been a real movement in over 20 years.

Very nicely brung. As the owner of an engineering office, I speek French and English with my clients. All my employees are bilingual. But if a canadian salesman only speaks to me in English, I will not buy from him.

While I enjoyed your video, I was surprised by the coincidence that now that your President wants Canada as the 51st state, here we suddenly see the separatist movement in Quebec to suddenly reawaken. I've lived through all the referendums. The problem is just like Brexit, the Quebecois are being sold a lie, just like the Conservatives want us to feel broken because of the criminal immigrants that are stealing our wealth. Be aware that Independence in Quebec is a very hot topic, but mostly only because it is based on lies. Quebec would not survive independence. It would end up as part of the US.

so are they Canadian or not? Im confused?

Young idiots who think they know everything. I used to be one of them. Be grateful to be part of a wonderful country like Canada and celebrate diversity within the Canadian family

As a French Quebecker, I can tell you that I am also proud to be a Canadian, and believe me, the majority of my friends are happy to be bilingual . That is what makes our country interesting and open-minded. No bad filling and no fear of extinction.

Ma ville me manque....

Try talking to anyone not specifically Francophone, and even those of us who were born here and who's families have been here for very long times who DO speak French as well. You might be surprised to learn about our experiences living here. This video's perspective is pretty one-sided because all you did was speak to young French people with little life experience who like the idea of Quebec independence because our gov't, filled with people who were schooled in English outside of the province/country who profit on the chaos of language, sold that idea to them. Most of these kids haven't seen how many businesses, and Quebecers who have left since the 70s because of short-sighted ideals like that. The world is much bigger than Quebec, sorry to say, guys. Once you actually start living life outside uni, and travel anywhere else, hopefully you'll see that.

11 minutes in , proud canadian/quebecer right there