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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
To the first bold, you are making (repeating) a claim that no one has presented any evidence to support - again, people are being accused of prejudice here, simply because some of you don't see, or won't recognize, the claims they are making about costs. Go ahead and back up the claim that they 'don't like Quebec', if you think you can.
To the second bold, you are claiming that (Locke and) I haven't explained why it doesn't make sense to deal in Quebec. But I literally did. I said the regulators have made it onerous. Would you like me to paste all of the regulatory requirements that my business would face to deal with Quebec? (because I am not going to).
I didn't simply decide not to operate in Quebec, I WAS operating in Quebec, and walked away from it, because it simply wasn't worth it, as it has gotten increasingly onerous in the last few years. You can choose to accept that or not, I really don't care. But my point is not lessened, simply because I didn't post a massive wall of text explaining what exactly all those regulations are.
As to the condescension, it wasn't started by me, I was simply responding in kind. It really pisses me off when people casually call other people racist, as a matter of course, simply because they don't understand, or don't care to understand where those people are coming from - iggy called people racist, and then became condescending when challenged on it.
Anyway, this is the last I'll post on this conversation.
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You’re really doing a lot of mental gymnastics here. No one said(or at least I didn’t) that there were no reasons why doing business in Quebec can be more expensive/onerous than in other jurisdictions.
My point was that claiming that the bilingual labelling requirements were making it too expensive to do business in Quebec specifically(as the poster I was responding to did) is ridiculous. Which it is because literally the rest of the country has to do it too.
If you want to pretend as though my comment that people who complain about bilingual packaging usually just don’t like Quebec is insinuating that people are being racist without anything to support your baseless accusations then fill your boots. Quebec is a province, not a race and there are a number of other political motives people can have for making those claims beyond not liking French speaking people if that’s what you’re implying I was suggesting.
I think what you really wanted for me to have said was that people who complain about bilingual packaging usually just want to complain about people who speak french, which I clearly did not say and I am happy to clarify that it was not my intention to suggest/insinuate that at all.
Knowing that now, are you going to hold yourself accountable and acknowledge that your accusations of me of calling people racist are completely unfounded?