willheim on Nostr: How powerful is Quebec in Canada? Too damn powerful. One example I constantly pointed ...

How powerful is Quebec in Canada? Too damn powerful. One example I constantly pointed out, and people so easily brushed off, was during the pandemic the govt gave out money. It was called CERB. That stuff for the "Canadian Emergency Response Benefit". Canada is pronounced with a hard C. As in /k/. Thus it should be /k/erb, or "curb"... As in to "curb the economic disruption", right? But, no, the govt and media parrots spread it with a soft c, as in /s/, as in "serb". Why? Because in French, the letter "c" is pronounced as an "s" like "sey" thus the pronunciation became "serb" which means absolutely nothing but an appeasement to a French voting block.

This is the same region that fucks with our dairy industry and is why we have dairy/cheese tariffs with the resulting limited selection and high prices. Politics is stupid.