Complaing about your country/state/city

Canada’s great and all but there’s some bad things.

1. The government right now is atrocious. Our current prime minister Justin Trudeau has low approval ratings with it fluctuating only around 50% for the most part and the government continues to fail to fix key issues. He is a self proclaimed feminist which I do not like the sound of at all. The liberal party has hit rock bottom though, as recently in the Ontarian Electrion the liberals have been denounced as an official party of Ontario. So now, the Liberals aren’t even an official party in the province who contributes the most to a prime minister election. Hopefully we’ll get Trudeau out as soon as possible.

2. Except for in Quebec and some Maritime provinces, the schools here are absolute SHIT at teaching one of the 2 official languages of our country, French. Being an official language of Canada, you’d think that the whole country should be able to converse at least somewhat in French, but the education for it here is god awful. It is mandatory to learn from Grade 3 to Grade 9 which is a whole 7 years of manditory French but it’s just so horrible. You focus on a few words per month. Literally in all of grade 4 I learned about 20 nouns and 10 verbs and I forget most of all that except for some of the school supply nouns that we focussed for 2 months on. In grade 5 and 6 we learned the same god damn things and only in grade 7 did I learn something new and it was very little. Grade 9 French teaches you a little more but I got exempt from it due to a schedual error for school. Nobody who does the grade 3-9 French graduates from high school able to speak very much French and I was never taught a single bit of grammar throughout all of my French glasses except for the fact that you put adjectives after nouns. I never learned why or what or how anything was supposed to be. I’ve been told that only in Grade 11 and 12 French you start actually learning decent stuff, but French class is so dull to everybody so not very many people follow through to take Grade 10, 11 and 12 French. Canada is so goddamn horrible at teaching something that literally everybody should be semi-fluent in. I mean heck, even Quebec teaches their citizens fluent English so why can’t the rest of Canada teach fluent French?? It’s the worst part our education.

3. The Residential Schools incident. You probably don’t know what it is, but it’s Canada’s greatest mistake and most horrible atrocity that they have committed. Back in 1884, Canada passed a law that made it manditory for all indigenous children to attend schools, and due to the fact that many tribes were located far away from any school, most children were taken from their families and sent away to residential schools. 150000 native children were sent to these residential schools. That doesn’t seem all that bad at first, just a little iffy, but what went on in every single one of those schools was horrible. Children were beaten for speaking their native language, only allowed to speak English. They were forced to absorb into the common society of Canada. Everything they learned was only about absorbing into the common society. There were incredibly strict rules, and major consequences for any breaking of those rules. In some cases, female children were locked into rooms alone and raped by their teachers if they didn’t follow simple rules. Living conditions in the schools were horrible, and around 6000 of the children sent to the schools died from all of this. Almost nothing was done about it until Canada finally realized what they were doing much later, and over 100 years since the first residential school opened, in 1996 the last one was finally closed. This was Canada’s biggest mistake and shows that we’re not just the nice country that everyone thinks we are sometimes. The indigenous people are still very angry at the government who severely oppressed them in the past and Canada is still apologizing to them but nothing can give back what was taken away from them.

Yes you can. Almost everyone in Quebec is fluent in English by attending school classs. The Dutch learn English in school classes. Belgians learn English in school classes. Germans, Greeks, so much of Europe does. English isnt even an official language of them. French, being an official language of Canada and with it being a large business language as well, should be easy to be taught in Canada but it isn’t.

France’s business language is French due to the large amount of French speaking places around the world so only 40% of the population speaks English well, but that’s still a lot. Compare this to Quebec though, where almost everyone in the entire province is fluent in English and French as well (75% of Quebec speaks French as their first language). It’s even required that you speak English for almost every job, as a Starbucks cashier in Montreal needs to speak English for tourists. So it’s not hard for the Québécois to learn and be fluent in English so it shouldn’t be that hard for the rest of Canada to learn French either, especially considering English shares 33% of its vocabulary WITH French but the education system is just so bad at teaching French in a whole 7 YEARS of education.

Immigration: Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty neutral, when it comes to immigrants. But the government has begun accepting way too many immigrants, meaning there's not enough space for all of us. Plus some of them can't even accept the old traditions we have.

That's pretty much the only backlash i have on my country kbai

from first hand experience I can tell you most education systems are terrible at teaching english

also theres like a million things wrong with ecuador im not even going to complain but hey the food here is delicious and bananas are really cheap so im good

I'd assume English is much more difficult to learn than French. English has the most words out of any language, and the second most exceptions out of any language. My friend took a French class and said it was one of her best classes, and it has a lot of Latin derivation, so an English speaker shouldn't have as much difficulty with it as most other languages.