Sacre’ Bleu!

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You get the tar, I’ll get the feathers.

Montreal Gazette-  Air Canada boss stumbles into language debate with English-only speech.

“I’ve been able to live in Montreal without speaking French, and I think that’s a testament to the city of Montreal,” Michael Rousseau said after making a major speech to the city’s business community.

26 Replies to “Sacre’ Bleu!”

  1. Somehow whoever hired him for the job didn’t think it was a problem he doesn’t speak French.

    (I see, though, that’s he’s backtracked and promised to learn it.)

  2. Someone once defined a gaffe as “someone important actually telling the truth.”

    I live in Ottawa. I’ve listened to my share I’d non-francophone big shots pretend to speak French. I always have to force myself not to laugh. I speak it better than they do and I pray for the extinction of French in Canada daily.

    By the way—if you want prompt, courteous service in Montreal 44 years after Bill 101, forget French. Learn Chinese.

  3. Sorry but O/T: just got a survey call, a handful of prerecorded questions for me to answer by pressing numbers.

    Approval rating of Trudeau, Ford, O’Toole, which party I voted for, which I’d vote for in future, and that was about it. No idea who might have paid for it, but interesting. PPC maybe?

  4. When the language issue raised its ugly head in 1976 I was on an Air Canada flight from Frankfort to Toronto and delayed for about eight hours. When we were able to board we found out our flight would land at Niagara Falls, New York and there we would be bused to Toronto. On arrival, and well after midnight, forced to climb down ladders out of the airplane and then climb another to get into the terminal building, were we found our luggage waiting. It had arrived earlier on that same airplane minus the passengers. None of the airport Customs & Immigration staff dared speak to us. The problem was English being the International language of air transit in this bilingual nation. O Canada.

  5. as a French Canadian, I am appalled that we continue to allow Quebec to run the country. Is there not one politician out there with a backbone. Canada is not two founding nations, the French were beaten on the plains and that is where French should have been left

    1. Yeah the French were beaten in the plains. But then the English were stuck with fridgid and ugly anglo women that didn’t want to have babies and were outbred. Luckily there was no civil war and politics was used. La revanche des berceaus. Don’t fret. Mass immigration will ensure the French/Anglo debate is irrelevant in a couple of generations.

    1. Good idea. I suggest the Head Office and Repair Facilities be moved back to Winnipeg, the geographic centre of North America. I remember when Trudeau moved the facility to Quebec. What an odious family they turned into.

      1. Trans Canada Airline’s, later Air Canada, headquarters until 1949 was Winnipeg at which time it was moved to Montreal by the Quebec Liberal shithead, Louis St. Laurent.

        It was the peckerhead Brian Mulroney who in 1988 awarded the Air Canada maintenance facility to Montreal when an existing facility in Winnipeg had initially been selected. At the same time Air Canada bought Airbuses leading to the closure of the Boeing plant in Winnipeg.

        In 1986 the criminal asshole Brian Mulroney moved fighter maintenance from Winnipeg’s Bristol Aerospace to Montreal’s Canadair.

        Do we detect a trend? Edmonton used to have a large aircraft maintenance business at the old Municipal Airport. It’s long gone east.

        1. Edmonton used to have a large aircraft maintenance business at the old Municipal Airport.

          The story’s a bit more complicated than that. Northwest Industries moved from the Municipal Airport out to better facilities at the EIA more than 30 years ago.

          It was eventually taken over by an American firm (L3?). NWI eventually went out of business when the company lost the contract for servicing the C-130 Hercules (work which it did for years) to, I think, Cascade Aerospace in Abbotsford.

  8. Air Canada won’t take it’s head office out of Montreal/Quebec. Even if it’s mostly privately owned, they know that the Canadian whore, I mean boar, has it’s biggest teat firmly attached to the mouth of Quebec, like a 36 year living old in his mother’s basement.

  9. french language supremacism is a “constitutional right”… the Turdhole Charter might not protect or guarantee the most basic of human rights and freedoms ( like the right to work or the right to not be subject to forced Government medical experimentation) as the decades old narrative has suggested, but it does guarantee the french language speakers “special privilege” … french language privilege is a guaranteed “right and freedom” not subject to emergency annihilation.
    french language supremacism and french language privilege are the only “rights and freedoms” that the Turdhole Charter guarantees… that was always the Charters primary purpose. Institutional bigotry as a “constitutional right”.

    1. Sorry bud, the charter doesn’t guarantee shit. Article 1: all those rights are subject to… “reasonable limits”.

      1. Name one time when the imposition of french ( ” bilingualism “) has been subject to “reasonable limits” by a Court or a Government. … I’ll wait.

  14. I lived in Montreal for a couple of years back in the 80s. Yes, you could go places where nobody spoke French. Like Sears downtown. You’d have to look for a Franco saleman, and nobody gave a such a shit that they would call one for you. I wonder if it’s still there?

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