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Preposterous? >> i don't think think it is -- but here we have a situation -- >> it's 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 much of history. i get it. i would want my own thing and when i got it, i would want to make sure the...

Cracking down on an italian restaurant that did not comply with quebec's 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 there's a big difference between a governor's staff let's say creating a traffic jam or richard nixon creating something that res...

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? >> don't get me wrong. i lean french, hard. i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. >> you don't 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 have language laws for signage and stuff. >> now, signage for instance must by law be principally ...

Name is bourdain. i lean french, hard. >> i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. >> you don't think that's preposterous? >> i do not think it's 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 produces by-products of stupidity and that was it. you know what, it will not stand. >> they treat...

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? >> don't get me wrong. my last name is b 0ourdain, i lean french, hard. i'm normally sympathetic to the language laws....