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From: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: postings in the French language
Message-ID: <1162@zap.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 89 02:31:03 GMT
References: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> <3837.251eb4d9@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1989Sep26.132533.12660@utzoo.uucp> <22345@looking.on.ca> <1989Sep29.130503.13587@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: fortin@zap.UUCP (0000-Denis Fortin)
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In article <1989Sep29.130503.13587@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>In article <22345@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>>[...] if somebody came to you and asked directions in English, to respond 
>>in French (when you know English) would be rude.
>
>That's not to say it hasn't happened. When I lived in Montreal, being
>treated that way by bus drivers, directory assistance and government
>offices was the exception rather than the rule.
>[...]
>In this context, the actions were not only rude, but damaging to
>both Quebec's reputation for hospitality and its economy.

Sigh...  I guess the cat is out of the bag and I must now make a confession
(even though it might get me in trouble with Quebec Nationalists :-)

	"Yes, it's true, there are morons in Quebec too!"
	"Oui, c'est bel et bien vrai, me^me au Que'bec il y a des e'pais!"

;-)

I guess what I'm trying to say is that not all Quebecois act the same
way.  I'm sure you could think of at least a few (potentially even a
great many) of your fellow ontarians that act in a way that you do not
approve of...  ;-)
-- 
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