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Preposterous? >> i dont think think it is -- but here we have a situation -- >> its stupid, i agree with you completely this province 40 years ago was in some respects an english city, so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> but ever bureaucracy produces by temperature products of stupidity, and it will not stand. >> the anglo-canadians treated quebecois like second-class crap for muc...

Cracking down on an italian restaurant that did not comply with quebecs language laws. what were those words, calamari and pasta. i kid you not. how about we close all the gate, not the scandals, the gates to which we attach the scandals. we instantly trivialize them when we do them, like soap operaizing them, when we throw the same suffix on all of them, failing to distinguish them and we in the media fail to distinguish ourselves. i think we can do better because theres a big difference betwee...

Refers to an incident where local authorities notified an italian restaurant they were in violation of french laws because they used the word pasta which is italian. >> okay. stop apologizing. okay? >> dont get me wrong. i lean french, hard. i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. >> you dont think it is preposterous? >> i do not but here we have a situation. it is stupid. >> i agree with you completely that this province 40 years ago was in some respects an english city. we needed to ...

Name is bourdain. i lean french, hard. >> i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. >> you dont think thats preposterous? >> i do not think its preposterous, but here we have a situation. >> it is stupid. i agree with you completely, that this -- this province 40 years ago was in some respect an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> but every bureaucracy p...

Stake. so i was going to talk about the whole history of french quebecois, but you have to get to the pressing matter of the day -- pasta-gate. >> pasta-gate. what do you want to know about pasta-gate? >> for those not up on current quebec politics, pasta-gate refers to an incident where local authorities notified an italian restaurant that they were in violation of french laws, because they used the word "pasta" which is italian. >> this is -- >> okay. stop apologizing, okay? >> dont get me wro...

My last name is bourdain. i lean french. hard. >> i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. >> you dont think its preposterous? >> i do not think its preposterous. but i hear we have a situation -- >> it is stupid. i agree with you completely that this province 40 years ago was in some respects an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> but every bureaucracy...

So we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> but every bureaucracy produces by-products of stupidity. and you know what? it will not stand. >> the anglo-canadians treated french-speaking quebecois like second-class crap for much of history. so i get it. id be pissed too. id want my own thing and when i got it id want to make sure theres no backsliding to the bad old days. >> when the ...

Feel is at stake. >> so i was going to talk about the whole history of french quebecoisism, but i have to get to the pressing matter of the day -- pasta-gate. >> what do you want to know about pastagate? >> for those not up on current quebec politics, pasta-gate refers to an incident where local authorities notified an italian restaurant that they were in violation of french were in violation of french laws because they used the word "pasta," which is italian. >> this is -- okay. stop apologizin...

Me for lunch at bistro m sur masson, to understand what many feel is at stake. >> so i was going to talk about the whole history of french quebecoisism, but i have to get to the pressing matter of the day -- pasta-gate. >> what do you want to know about pastagate? >> for those not up on current quebec politics, pasta-gate refers to an incident where local authorities notified an italian restaurant that they were in violation of french were in violation of french laws because they used the word "...

"pasta" which is italian. >> this is -- >> okay. stop apologizing, okay? >> dont get me wrong. my last name is bore deign. french. i lean hard. im normally sympathetic to the language laws. >> you dont think its preposterous? >> i dont think think it is -- but here we have a situation -- >> its stupid, i agree with you completely this province 40 years ago was in some respects an english city, so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> signage, for instance, must by law be prin...