The following is an excerpt from a soon-to-be-published book.
For another sample chapter: RICKY GERVAIS: THE LAST HUMAN WHO DARES TO SPEAK.
The following is an excerpt from a soon-to-be-published book.
For another sample chapter: RICKY GERVAIS: THE LAST HUMAN WHO DARES TO SPEAK.
The modern world has abandoned reality. It has replaced it with words, with shifting definitions, with laws that attempt to force perception itself to submit to political will. The fools who govern today believe that if they control language, they control truth. They are mistaken. Language does not shape reality - reality crushes language when it fails to reflect the truth. But the cowards who rule over Canada do not care for truth. They care only for power. And so, they allow one of their provinces to build a system of linguistic tyranny, enforcing words by law as if they were divine commandments.
The Canadian province of Quebec is a living experiment in this madness. It claims to merely promote its bastardized French language - but that language is imposed. The government does not merely defend its language - it polices it. In Quebec, words are not the spontaneous expression of free individuals, but the regulated property of the state. Inspectors roam the streets like inquisitors, literally measuring the size of letters on signs, ensuring that French letters dominate English letters - even though both languages use the same Latin alphabet. Business owners are fined for perceived linguistic infractions, immigrants are assimilated by force, and public officials are forbidden from greeting citizens in both of Canada’s official languages. This is not a province that cherishes French - this is a province that fears it, that knows it is weak, and so forces it upon its people like a fragile idol that must be worshiped under threat of punishment.
And yet, the greater disgrace is not that Quebec enforces this. The greater disgrace is that Canada allows it. A country that parades itself as a champion of democracy, that lectures the world on human rights and liberty, has nothing to say when one of its own provinces suppresses free speech through legislation. The federal government, which has the power to stop this, chooses silence. Federal politicians are too afraid of Quebec’s feeble nationalist movement, too eager to preserve political stability, too weak to defend the very freedoms it claims to uphold.
If Canada truly believed in freedom, it would outlaw the policing of language. It would rip apart the bureaucracies that enforce linguistic obedience and throw their rulebooks into the fire. It would remind Quebec that language is not the property of the state, but the living expression of a free people. But Canada does not believe in freedom. It believes in convenience. It allows linguistic fascism to fester in one of its provinces, pretending not to see, hoping the rest of the world will never notice its hypocrisy.
This is how modern societies collapse - not with force, not with conquest, but with the slow erosion of reality itself. With words, with laws, with rules that turn speech into a crime. Quebec’s leaders know exactly what they are doing. They are not protecting French - they are ensuring their own power. They are building a system of quiet oppression, so quiet that most people never even notice. And Canada, the great pretender of liberty, is their silent accomplice.
All great revolutions begin with a promise of liberation. And all failed revolutions end with new chains, new masters, new prisons. The “Quiet Revolution” in Quebec was no different. It began with the destruction of the old order, the collapse of the Catholic Church’s grip on society, and the rise of a modern, secular Quebec. It was supposed to be a movement of progress, of renewal. But instead of lifting Quebec into the future, it simply replaced one domination with another.
Before the 1960s, Quebec was a province trapped in the past. The Catholic Church dictated education, morality, and family life, keeping the population obedient and afraid. Meanwhile, the province’s economy was largely controlled by English-speaking business elites, who ruled from their offices in Montreal like foreign lords overseeing conquered peasants. The French-speaking majority lived under a double subjugation: one imposed by their priests, the other by their employers. When the people finally rose up, they did what all dishonest revolutionaries do - they sought vengeance, not justice.
And so, instead of building a society of equals, they built a society of linguistic purists. Instead of eradicating oppression, they merely shifted it - from English employers to French employers, from religious dogma to linguistic dogma. The promise of a free Quebec became the reality of a controlled Quebec, where French was no longer simply a language but a weapon, a tool of exclusion, a political instrument used to enforce identity and obedience. The revolution did not bring liberty - it brought a new orthodoxy, a new dogma, a new priesthood of language enforcers.
This is the lie at the heart of Quebec’s self-mythology. It does not fight for cultural survival - it fights for linguistic dominance. It does not promote French - it imposes it. It does not seek respect - it seeks submission. And in doing so, it has betrayed its own history. The people of Quebec once demanded freedom. They were given it. And then, like all weak-willed peoples, they squandered it by building new chains and renaming those chains “protection.”
The Quiet Revolution was never about preserving French - it was always about securing political power. And when the revolutionaries of the 1960s realized that they could not enforce their new order through force, they chose a quieter, more insidious method: they turned to language laws.
Only a society that has already surrendered its strength would need laws to protect its language. Only a people who have lost faith in their own culture would demand that the state enforce it by decree. The strong do not need protection. The strong do not beg for survival. The strong support themselves through their vitality, their will, their ability to outshine all others. But in Quebec, the so-called defenders of French have proven, through their own actions, that they do not believe in the strength of their language at all. They believe in force. They believe in compulsion. They believe in law, police, and punishment - the final refuge of the weak.
Bill 101, the Charter of the French Language, was passed in 1977 under the claim that French in Quebec was “threatened.” A blatant lie! An absolute lie. French was the dominant language of Quebec long before Bill 101. French was the language of government, of schools, of daily life. It had never been outlawed, never been suppressed, never been at risk of disappearing. But lies are the foundation of all weak regimes, and so the Quebec government invented a crisis to justify its new system of linguistic dictatorship.
And what did Bill 101 decree? That English, one of Canada’s two official languages, must be reduced, diminished, hidden, and punished wherever possible. That all government institutions must function exclusively in French. That businesses must prioritize French or face legal consequences. That immigrants, no matter what language they speak, must send their children to French schools, eliminating choice and ensuring forced assimilation. And then came the most laughable, the most absurd, the most grotesque decree of all - that even the letters on business signs must submit to linguistic purity, that French words must be twice as large as English ones.
Twice as large! As if enlarging the letters of a word could increase the power of a language! As if the sheer size of the text could command respect, could impose reverence, could make people love the thing they are forced to obey! But this is the kind of superstition that arises in a society ruled by weakness - the belief that words on a page, properly measured and formatted, can sustain a culture that lacks the will to sustain itself.
And how is this nonsense enforced? By inspectors. By bureaucrats. By state-funded officers whose purpose is to roam the streets like priests of a new religion, ensuring that the holy language is obeyed. These language police officials do not fight crime. They do not protect the innocent. They measure. They count. They inspect the size of letters, the placement of words, the ratio of French to English. A government so obsessed with controlling the alphabet has already admitted its own impotence.
What kind of people accept this? Not free people. Not those who believe in the strength of their own culture, their own history, their own future. Only those who have already submitted to their own decline would accept the presence of language police, would tolerate bureaucrats who dictate how words may be written and spoken. This is not a society that believes in the vitality of its own language - this is a society that has surrendered to fear, that now enforces its identity through legal mandates instead of cultural strength.
Bill 101 did not save French. It chained it. It turned a language into a political weapon. It ensured that French would no longer thrive by its own merits, but would be “preserved” like a fragile relic, locked away under the guard of state enforcers.
And this was only the beginning. The decades that followed would see these laws tightened, expanded, and made even more absurd - all under the same fraudulent claim: that French was “under attack.” The lie would grow. And the government, armed with its fabricated crisis, would use it to justify further oppression.
Lies have many forms, but the most dangerous are the ones wrapped in numbers, the ones that appear scientific, statistical, undeniable. The Quebec government does not simply demand obedience to its language laws - it manufactures the illusion of necessity. It fabricates a crisis, arms itself with misleading data, and presents its absurd laws as the only salvation. And the people, too exhausted or too distracted to question what they are told, accept the lie without resistance.
The primary deception used to justify Quebec’s linguistic dictatorship is the claim that French is “declining.” But how is this decline measured? Not by its presence in government, not by its dominance in business, not by its near-total control of public life. No, it is measured by the number of people who speak French at home. This is the fraudulent statistic upon which an entire system of authoritarian language laws is built.
A child who speaks Mandarin with their parents but French at school, then later at work, as in every public interaction - this is counted as a "loss" for French. A multilingual household, where English or another language is spoken alongside French, is treated as a betrayal of the nation. This is not a rational way to measure the strength of a language. It is a deliberate distortion, a manipulation designed to create the illusion of crisis.
The reality is undeniable. French has never been at risk in Quebec. It is the language of the state, the language of law, the language of education, the language of business. It is spoken fluently by over 90% of the population. The dominance of French in Quebec is so absolute that it must be enforced not against its enemies, but against its own people - against those who dare to speak anything else. This is the truth that the government refuses to admit: French is not being erased. It is being imposed.
And yet, the people believe the lie. The journalists repeat it. The politicians strengthen it. The bureaucrats enforce it. They do not question the absurdity of their own logic. If French were truly under threat, would its defenders need to resort to coercion? Would they need laws, inspectors, punishments? Would they need the state to force what should flourish on its own?
There was never a crisis. There was only an excuse - a justification for control, an argument for oppression dressed in the language of survival. The laws were never about protecting French. They were about protecting the politicians who built their power upon it.
All systems begin with language. All power begins with language. To control language is to control perception, to determine who belongs and who does not, to shape the very boundaries of thought itself. And yet, in the modern world, where open racism is no longer tolerated, the politicians of Quebec have discovered a loophole, a way to enforce ethnic purity without ever speaking its name. They do not ban people. They do not outlaw races. They outlaw words.
They say this is about “protecting French.” A lie! What it is really about is excluding those who do not conform, those who speak the wrong way, those who carry the wrong history in their tongues. This is why the Quebec government targets immigrants, forcing them to assimilate linguistically before they are allowed to participate fully in society. This is why English schools are restricted, why businesses face fines for daring to address customers in the “wrong” language, why French letters must be twice as large as English ones on public signs - as if the size of a word could determine its importance, as if typography were destiny.
Quebec’s leaders understand something that most of the world refuses to admit: language is the most powerful tool of exclusion ever created. A government that enforces one language above all others is not merely dictating communication - it is determining who may thrive and who must be reduced to second-class status. It is defining who is "one of us" and who will always be "the outsider."
And they have always known this. The mask slipped in 1995, after Quebec’s failed referendum on independence. When the vote was lost, then-Premier Jacques Parizeau did not blame his own campaign. He blamed “the ethnic vote.” He blamed those who, despite living in Quebec, were never truly considered part of it. He blamed the immigrants, the non-French speakers, the people who could never be assimilated fully enough to satisfy the linguistic purists. It was an admission, spoken in anger, that these laws were never about culture. They were about separation, exclusion, and control.
This is systemic racism. Not the obvious, brutal racism of old, but something quieter, something more insidious - something that modern society refuses to recognize because it is wrapped in the language of “cultural protection.” But the truth remains: any society that enforces a language by law is systemically racist by default.
A society that values freedom does not regulate language. A society that values equality does not police words. A society that believes in the strength of its own culture does not force it upon others. Quebec does all three. And the rest of Canada, too spineless to challenge it, does nothing.
There is a sickness in Quebec, but it is not a crisis of language. It is the sickness of a government that wastes millions upon millions of tax dollars enforcing absurd linguistic laws while its hospitals overflow, its schools collapse, and its essential services rot from within. The political parasites who rule this province have created an empire of bureaucratic waste, a monstrous machine that exists not to serve the people, but to justify its own existence, feeding on public money like a bloated leech attached to the throat of society.
The Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) - the so-called “language police” - is nothing less than a state-funded institution of linguistic terrorism. It is an army of bureaucrats whose entire function is to measure the size of letters on signs, issue fines to businesses for using the wrong words, and harass store owners for greeting customers in English. This is where public money goes - not to hospitals, not to schools, not to infrastructure, but to government agents inspecting restaurant menus for forbidden English phrases.
How much does this absurdity cost? The OQLF’s budget runs into the tens of millions of dollars every year, an amount that could fund hospitals, pay nurses, and provide resources to struggling schools. Instead, it is spent on salaries for bureaucrats whose job is to punish shopkeepers for the placement of English words on a sign. Millions are wasted enforcing a linguistic dictatorship while emergency rooms are forced to turn away the sick because there are not enough doctors to treat them.
And it gets worse. The government does not stop at spending public money on this linguistic farce - it steals directly from its own businesses. Fines are issued for offenses as trivial as English letters being slightly too large, for failing to use the exact legal ratio of French-to-English text, for including English descriptors on a company website. The government shakes down its own economy, robbing businesses under the pretext of protecting a language that was never in danger.
But while politicians bleed the public dry for their language police, they refuse to spend on the people who actually hold society together. Nurses and teachers - those who keep the province running - are left begging for fair wages while Quebec politicians vote to increase their own salaries. In 2023, Quebec’s provincial legislators gave themselves a staggering 30% raise, increasing their base salary from $101,561 to $131,766 (CAD). And what did teachers get? A 17.4% raise, spread over five years - much less than what the politicians took for themselves.
There is money for the rulers, but not for the people. There is money for the language police, but not for the hospitals. There is money to ensure that English is suppressed, but not to ensure that students receive a proper education. This is the cost of linguistic tyranny - a society that crumbles while its rulers bicker over the size of letters on a storefront.
This is not governance. This is state-sanctioned theft. This is the final stage of a parasitic ruling class feeding on its people, draining their wealth while distracting them with false crises. They scream about language to keep the public blind to what is really happening - to keep them obedient, controlled, enslaved by rules that have nothing to do with reality.
Quebec is not collapsing because of English. It is collapsing because of the weakness, the cowardice, the grotesque incompetence of its leaders. They have built a system where linguistic nonsense takes priority over life itself. And when the hospitals fail, when the schools degrade, when businesses flee the province to escape the endless punishment, these same politicians will point their fingers at imaginary enemies and say, “French is under attack!”
A lie. French is not under attack. Reality is under attack. Objective truth is under attack.
Every oppressive regime understands the same fundamental truth: control the language, and you control the people. The rulers of Quebec have perfected this strategy, wielding linguistic laws like a weapon, using them to manufacture division, to stoke resentment, to ensure that the people are too busy fighting each other to ever turn their eyes upward and see the real enemy.
This was never about protecting French. It was never about cultural survival. It was always about ensuring the power of the political class. A government that controls language controls thought itself. And a government that controls thought has no need for force - it has already conquered the mind.
Language laws serve one purpose: to manufacture a permanent crisis, to keep the population in a constant state of fear and vigilance. The people must always believe that French is under attack, that they are in danger of being culturally erased, that only the ruling class - their supposed defenders - can protect them. The moment the people stop believing in this manufactured threat, the entire system collapses. And so, the politicians keep the lie alive, feeding it, strengthening it, making it ever more absurd, ever more desperate.
But they do not just impose these laws. They weaponize them. The government of Quebec uses language to create an artificial enemy, a scapegoat onto whom all societal problems can be projected. The economy is faltering? Blame the presence of English. The healthcare system is collapsing? Blame immigrants who don’t integrate fast enough. Schools are underfunded? Blame bilingualism. This is the same trick that every weak regime in history has used - divide the people, give them an enemy, and they will never turn their anger toward the real architects of their suffering - the politicians.
The irony is grotesque. The very people who claim to be protecting Quebec’s culture are the ones most responsible for its decay. They suffocate businesses under oppressive language restrictions, driving economic stagnation. They drive away talented professionals who refuse to live under linguistic purity laws. They cripple education by prioritizing language enforcement over actual learning. And through it all, they keep the population distracted, obedient, trapped in a cycle of manufactured outrage.
This is not governance. This is rule by deception. A state that must enforce its identity through law has already lost its identity. A language that must be protected through punishment has already died. The rulers of Quebec know this - but they will never admit it. Because if the people understood, if they finally saw the fraud for what it is, they would rise up and tear down the entire rotten structure.
The greatest lie ever told about Canada is that it is a free country. A nation that allows one of its provinces to police words, dictate language, and punish speech has no right to speak of freedom. The greatest outrage is not merely that Quebec enforces these linguistic laws - it is that the federal government of Canada allows it to happen.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that sacred document which Canada parades before the world as proof of its commitment to democracy, is a meaningless scrap of paper if it cannot protect something as basic as the right to speak without government interference. And yet, when it comes to Quebec, these rights mysteriously vanish. The federal government does not act. It does not intervene. It does not even speak. It watches, silent and indifferent, while a province systematically crushes linguistic freedom, and it does nothing.
If another province were to impose such restrictions - if Alberta or Ontario or British Columbia declared that French must be suppressed, that businesses would be fined for using it, that public signs must be dominated by English - the outrage would be immediate. The media would cry fascism. The courts would strike down the laws. The federal government would intervene without hesitation, proclaiming that Canada is a bilingual nation, that both official languages must be treated with equal respect. But when Quebec enforces the exact opposite, when it declares itself above the principles of bilingualism, when it openly suppresses English with the full force of the state, the federal government turns a blind eye.
And why? Because it is weak. Because it is afraid. Because political convenience is more important to Canadian politicians than principles. Quebec’s nationalist movement has held the country hostage for decades, constantly threatening separation, constantly demanding special treatment, constantly insisting that it is a nation unto itself. And the federal government, desperate to keep the country together at all costs, has given in to every demand. It has chosen submission over justice, compliance over integrity, silence over truth.
It is a government that fears its own province. It is a government that watches as its own citizens are punished for speaking one of its official languages, and it says nothing. This is not democracy. This is cowardice. This is complicity.
Canada’s leaders are not defenders of freedom. They are enablers of oppression. They have sold out their own country, their own principles, their own people, for the sake of keeping Quebec happy, for the sake of maintaining an illusion of national unity that exists in name only. They will never act. They will never intervene. Because they are spineless, because they are afraid, because they are exactly the kind of rulers who deserve to preside over a nation that is slowly destroying itself.
A free nation does not police words. A free people do not submit to linguistic decrees. A language that requires the force of law to survive has already died.
Quebec is not protecting French. It is enslaving it. It is chaining its own language to the state, turning it into an instrument of control rather than an organic expression of a living people. And the result is not cultural strength, but cultural stagnation - a language that exists not because it is loved, but because it is imposed, not because it thrives, but because it is enforced.
The people of Quebec are not free. They live under a government that believes it has the right to dictate how they speak, how they write, how they conduct business, how they interact with the world. And yet, they do not rise up. They do not resist. They have been convinced, through decades of propaganda, that their chains are necessary, that their submission is a form of cultural pride. And this is the greatest victory of any oppressive system - not just to rule, but to make its subjects believe they need to be ruled.
But the greater crime belongs to Canada itself. A country that allows linguistic oppression to exist within its borders is not a free country. A nation that stands by while one of its provinces enforces language laws with an iron fist has no right to call itself democratic. The federal government, through its silence, has betrayed its own people. It has proven that its commitment to freedom is a lie.
There is no justification for this. There is no defense. Language is not a crime - but policing it is.
And so, Canada stands revealed. It is not a beacon of liberty. It is not a champion of democracy. It is a nation that tolerates tyranny, so long as that tyranny speaks French.
The people of Quebec, the people of Canada, have a choice. To accept this, to remain asleep, to let this insanity continue, or to awaken - to see the fraud, to reject the lie, to tear down this house of linguistic oppression once and for all.
No matter what, a society that polices language is a society in decline. A government that controls speech is a government that fears resistance. A people that accept this are a people who have already lost the will to be free.