The easiest way to compare is Irish/Scottish relative to global English. Or better yet, a thick American southern accent compared to a British accent.

The idioms, the accent etc all have their particularity. Typically quebecers can understand French from France but the opposite is a little more difficult.

All that being said, just like all languages there’s localised variations around quebec. And a trained hear can usually tell the difference between someone from Gatineau, Montréal, quebec, Gaspésie or Lac St-Jean.

Litterally just reading about the reading crisis and how we don’t know why it is so bad…

Maybe there’s a link between the two.