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My last name is bourdain. i lean french. hard. >> i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. >> you don't think it's preposterous? >> i do not think it's 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 produces by-products of stupidity. and you know what? it will not stand. >> the anglo-canadians ...

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. i'd be pissed too. i'd want my own thing and when i got it i'd want to make sure there's no backsliding to the bad old days. >> when the first sovereignist party to be elected was elected in 1976, it didn't come out of a vacuum. it c...

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? >> don't get me wrong. my last name is bourdain. i lean french. hard. >> i am enormously sy...

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? >> don't get me wrong. my last...

"pasta" which is italian. >> this is -- >> okay. stop apologizing, okay? >> don't get me wrong. my last name is bore deign. french. i lean hard. i'm normally sympathetic to the language laws. >> you don't think it's 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...