>>>>>>The Quebecois are more French than the French. The real French will try and speak English, even though they can't; the Q's won't speak it even though they can! :-)
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>In my experience this not the case, can I assume you frequent Quebecois regularly to make such a statement?

Lighten up Mike. BTW, to frequent somewhere is to go there regularly. As it happens I've visited Quebec twice: Montreal and Q City, and many hamlets in between. How often or how many times do I have to go to know what language I'm conversing in? How many road signs do I have to read, in French only, to know English is frowned upon? How come in every other province, everything is written in both languages to keep the Q's happy, but in Q it's only French?

The other side of the coin is that I have to have experience of the French. I've frequented France, I've had French friends in my home town (even a lodger - locatair?), I've even scuba dived with them, to know that they do try to speak English.

:-)

Allez

Terry