> Please note, I'm not saying the silliness doesn't exist, I hear alot of
> stories from people on some of the insane stuff that sometimes goes on.
> What I'm trying to say is when you're there you don't "notice" it
> outright(at least I didn't notice it, and I WAS looking for it), nobody
> treated me like an "outsider" or anything like that just because I
> didn't know french (which is what kind of silliness you often see in the
> media).

Speaking as a francophone from Quebec, I can say that we (generally) don't
hate strangers and tourists, except if they come here like they own the place,
as if it was some kind of disneyland, a show, exhibit, etc. and treat local
folk as actors in an 'historical revival' crappiness or something...
That kind of stuff is seen in Quebec city (where I live now) more than in
Montreal, and cultural diversity is barely comparable...


> But in my experience they are far from that, and are in fact friendlier
> to non "natives" then I feel in my own province sometimes.

Exactly the opposite of what many (*) would want you to think. We're retards,
racists, xenophobic morons, etc. by default.

*->It's hard to fill this in, without abusiveley generalizing and labelling...
'medias' wouldn't be 100% true, neither would be 'politicans', or 'Anglophones'
, but a mix of those in mixed proportions, and others too...

But all the people I've met that came from 'outside' the province all say
that their perception was wrong, that finally Quebec isn't bad as
they thought before.

It's a kinda special situation.


> some roads with speed limits of above 100km/h, some of the roads are in
> rough shape. I took one road across the province that turned out to be
> used mostly for logging, it was the longest 120km of nothing I've ever
> driven, and neither my butt nor the car's suspension thanked us for

Ahh, that would be the stretch between Plaster Rock and Renous? I used to
go by this road twice every year to go to Prince Edward Island, (it was,
by far, the quickest way) but now that
they've opened a new highway that goes south to Fredericton and then
almost due east to Moncton, then Port Elgin (at the NB-NS border)

Very recent & smooth, and quick also, where 110-120 isn't unusual. (in
some parts 120-150 seems very common) and


Christian Blondin

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