A lot of French are snob, especially those from Paris. That why the Quebecers have a love/hate relationship with the French. We know that we are part of them for historic reasons, but we hate them for their accent and snobism. If you listen carefully to a conversion from a Quebecer talking about a French, you will often hear a bad word before the "French" word (Those ass***les French...)

We have a different accent from the French, that's for sure. We can compare that to the accent of an American vs a British. It's not uncommon for a French having difficulties understanding a Quebecer. Even in Quebec, we have different accents, a Quebecer from Lac St-Jean will have a different accent from someone from Gaspesie and of someone from Montreal.

That was pretty rude from the French saying that we don't speak proper French. They are the first to use english terms in their language, like parking (we use "stationnement").

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>During my recent trip, I stayed at a B&B in Nova Scotia. The proprieter had entertained a guest from France who had been travelling in Quebec. This person had told him: "The Quebeçois are playing a bad joke on you. They are making you all use French, but they don't even speak proper French." My own French is not good enough to confirm what he said.
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>What do Anglo-Canadians learn in school - the French of France or Quebec? I am guessing that Canadian French is not officially any different and that in, say, Quebec City it doesn't sound nearly as different as it would out in the woods.