>Sorry, I didn't express my thought too well.

No problen Jim. I knew that's not what you intended. I just wanted to clarify things before someone interpreted the message the wrong way.

>First let me say that from a culturally interesting perspective I seriously doubt that there is any better place in North America to be than in Quebec, and especially Montreal.

Your check is in the mail :)

>Yes, there's snow and cold, but that's so for lots of other spots too.

We do however top the charts as the city (of at least our size) receiving the most snow in a year in the world :(

>What I specifically had in mind is the recent change to close the 'loophole' regarding the public education of non-Francophones. It was such that a person proving that he/she was educated in English could legally send their children to English public schools, but now I understand that the option will now be limited to those who can prove that they were educated in English in QUEBEC. I think that's got to be a problem for people considering moving to Quebec if they have or plan to have kids.

If they come to Quebec first and have kids here, it shouldn't be much a problem, since the kids learn easily and with learn french without much of a problem. The main problem would be for the parents to do the homework with their kids at home.

It would be more of a problem for someone with kids allready in school coming to Quebec. But, IMHO, it wouldn't help the kid to send him to english school, because he would later have a much more difficult time to find a job he in Quebec if he doesn't understand and/or speak french enough.

If I try to make a parallel, I don't see myself moving to Italy and trying to send my daughter to a french school...