I’ve just finished watching a news item that has my blood boiling. Hard-line French language activists in Quebec are up in arms over the fact that when you call a certain government office and reach the inevitable machine, rather early in the menu options you hear the phrase “Press 9 to continue in English.” One of the protesters is quoted as saying that the fact that the option is near the beginning of the message tells French Quebecers “they are second class citizens.”
Give me a break. There are too many people in Quebec spending too much of their time looking for ways to be humiliated and oppressed. It seems they aren’t happy unless they are angry. And people may call me politically incorrect for expressing impatience; too bad.
Tags: French, Canada, Quebec
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