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I understand your frustration, and I agree with the 6 month period rule for new immigrants being completely unreasonable.
But, how do you think you would've fared in a country like, Brasil, or Spain, or Japan, or France? It's the same thing.
It's not though. None of those countries are explicitly banning government communication in other languages, and removing other services that have been in place. None of those countries are going out of their way to say to businesses "If you don't communicate in the language of our choice, you'll be required to pay us money."
Coming from the United States, services were often offered in Spanish because it was an uncommon language, but still prevalent enough that people spoke it regularly. Spanish isn't an official language of the US, but they recognized the need to serve their people better and took steps to do this. Citizens might be assholes who would say something like "This is America, speak American," but the government at least made the effort to help. Quebec is echoing those citizens, while saying their own heritage is so fragile that if they have to serve their populace better that it will disappear. I can't imagine any of those other countries you mentioned are so thin-skinned.
You're picking the United States as an example? The one country that's in itself practically the sole responsible for worldwide decline in local cultural and linguistic heritage?
I don't think it's a bad example in this case, since the US hasn't lost it's own cultural heritage much. For better or for worse, the US does a great job of assimilating people and making them "American".
That's pretty much exactly what Quebec is trying to accomplish, right? something like 'if you want to live in Quebec, you have to become Quebecois'. So if US policy doesn't blanket ban other languages in signage and social services and still manages to 'americanize' people, then Quebec could potentially do the same.
The US and Quebec are in pretty different situations, so it's not a perfect example, but I think it is a pretty good basis for an argument against Quebec's culturally protectionist policies.