What is happening in Canada these days in relation to language?

Question

It freaks me out how for the past hundred years we have had issues with language in Quebec but now we going to add a whole new issue to the pot. Does anyone realize that this country has been a melting pot of citizens from Italy, China, India etc and they just melded into our society with no fuss, no muss. Never demanding anything special. Recently the new influx of refugees are making big noises and demading this and that. The canadian job bank even comes in Spanish now, I would be insulted if I were italian or greek or whatever. I never knew there was a huge spanish community in Canada and why not chinese or Italian. What gives. Its not meant to be racist just show how unfair it is to all Canadians of different ethnic backgrounds. Maybe if we all stuck together we could make this country either fully bilingual or one language and we could all get along better as our government would pay to teach everyone the same dang language.

I agree when do we stop with political correctness and define what Canada means for everyone. I mean we cannot keep going with this lets make everyone happy attitude. We need some defining elements of our country, its why we have no pride.

Answer 1

I'm not a history buff so I don't know who was the first to arrive although I think it was either the French or British. If it was up to me, we would be a bilingual country with french and English and immigration law would stipulate that you have to speak at least one of these languages to be welcomed into our country. I don't have anything with immigrants continuing to follow their cultural habits, I love learning new things from my friends who some are Italian, Greek and Portuguese but they have all learnt to speak both English and french.

Answer 2

I'm an immigrant myself and I can understand your point of view; perhaps because it makes it a bit easier communication-wise for those lacking in the English language skill (until they master it better) so as not to feel segregated from accessing public information? I think also because there have been many changes made in the recent years due to "political correctness".