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You are quoting me having modified my words, so you are not engaging with this in good faith.
Signage laws are not human rights abuses.
The right to work in French is not a human right abuse.
Making a strawman of it doesn't change reality.
My rights as a Quebec anglophone have been better respected in the last 100 years than the rights of francophones in Ontario, Manitoba and New Brunswick. We should be proud of this heritage we built for ourselves in Quebec. Our cultural rights are legally protected.
Yes you are simping for American companies who have literally been pressuring the federal government for weeks/months/years to cave on every single language protection.
Small businesses have been, at worst, mildly inconvenienced in the last 50 years of signage laws existing. Society has been fine, apart from angryphones bitching now and then.
I was paraphrasing you. But OK, then we'll play by your rules:
If they restrict what I'm allowed to write in which language, that's a restriction of my freedom of speech, which is a human right. Next.
I never said it was. But ah, the accusations that are actually confessions. Next.
Hmm, weird, I don't recall laws forcing Francophones in Ontario to run their businesses in English, make their signage English, forcing them to go to English schools, and a whole range of other things.
Ah, another accusation that's actually a confession. Next.
Yeah, when a significant portion of the province's politics are "how can we further restrict what is allowed to be done in one language while using the excuse of protecting another language as a way to drown out any opposition", society is not fine.