Sugar Sammy, the Quebec humorist who hates Quebec Laws 96 and 21 and calls Quebecers who want to be served in French in Quebec “crazy” is touring Quebec.
On May 5th he started the tour of his bilingual show You’re gonna Laugh 2, which will travel from Quebec to Gatineau, from Trois-Rivières to Magog, from Montreal to Sherbrooke.
Owl! we can hold lectures in both official languages of Canada.
YOU WILL DISAPPEAR
Sugar Sammy gave a lengthy interview to La Presse. To the journalist who asked himself: “Does he understand this concern for the fate of our language?” he explained: “Yes and I think that the French language needs to be protected. I don’t think the threat comes from English or immigration. Do you want people from a different background to be interested in French? Make people like me more present in Quebec culture and able to pronounce it.
But behind the language issue we hide that these people are becoming more “Quebecoan”. So here’s a charter, here’s Bill 21… It’s not the language, it’s the Quebec culture of yesteryear that we want to preserve. And I think the culture is always changing. »
If French isn’t threatened by English in Quebec, what the hell is it threatening? From Serbo-Croatian, Javanese or even Gujarati? Is there a wave of French speakers in Quebec who have started speaking Hausa or Telugu without anyone hearing about it? Is Sugar Sammy aware that young Quebecers who speak the language of Netflix, Amazon and YouTube don’t watch Quebec TV? But shouldn’t we say that English threatens French?
Wretchedly, Quebec is a small French-speaking state in the middle of a predominantly English-speaking country alongside an English-speaking giant, but isn’t English posing a threat to French?
I don’t know who the Sugar Sammy pusher is, but he smokes well to deny English’s global influence…
Isn’t French at risk from immigration? Even if this immigration is largely non-French speaking? Even if our Frenchization capacities are exceeded?
Why does Sugar Sammy connect French with “old Quebec culture”? Is it archaic, outdated, cheesy and old-fashioned to want to keep the language of Miron and Tremblay?
I’m sick of being accused of “retreating” every time we stand up and demand a little respect for who we are.
TALK TO ME IN BILINGUALS
Sugar Sammy has already sold more than 70,000 tickets for his tour, several dates are sold out and more are already announced.
To paraphrase the famous Peregrine Falcon commercial, I would say that Sugar Sammy, “a really sick comedian of choice, is known for being pretty chilled.” Being super fast on stage, he can spend most of his time staring down at his audience. And because his humor skills are insane, Sugar Sammy’s future is far from uncertain.
But I’d add that we’re not crazy enough to buy Sugar Sammy’s language and immigration bullshit.
