Canada

I'm Québécois, don't vouvoie me, I'll think you're calling me old.

"Tu" is definitely preferred for anyone born after 1985 in my experience unless it's a very formal context.

In school, the younger teachers wanted to be tutoyés, and the older teachers wanted to be vouvoyés.

My buddy had the opposite version of this when we went to Japan. He was pretty good at conversational Japanese because that's what was taught in his college courses, but most of our interactions were in a business context using keigo Japanese which is more polite and formal.

He struggled for a while, especially because we found that lot of Japanese folks would downplay their knowledge of English out of modesty. There were a number of times when our friend would struggle to find the right word and the person he was talking to would confirm the correct English word first before offering the Japanese variant.

We learned not to use any anglicismes, but then if you go to Quebec it is part of the language.

Not as compared to other French-speaking nations.

I still use vous when speaking to strangers in general, and it's mandatory to use vous when speaking in french to a superior in the Canadian Forces.

It varies a lot. In my mother's family it's all informal, but my father uses formal vous with his parents and grandchildren do the same.

I'm also working with the public and I'm used to vouvoyer pretty much everyone except people clearly younger than me. I sometimes pass for a bit of a pedantic asshole but that's just what I'm used to.

Just switch when the other person asks.

It is part of the vernacular, school is right to say « don’t use anglicisme » they’re not there to teach vernacular, they’re there to tech proper way to talk.

Now on the « vous » most Quebecer don’t like it, maybe it’s a question about our relationship with authority, but there’s definitely time you ought to use it.

Now respect is earned not impose and since the CAQ cannot earn any respect from us they have to impose it

At least when I was a kid (in Ontario), we aren't taught Quebecois French. We're taught Parisienne French.