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Posted on 01/07/2012 8:13:22 PM PST by shove_it
MONTREAL — It had the all the makings of a potentially tense and angry demonstration.
Over 200 protesters waving Quebec’s provincial flag and calling for the dismissal of the Habs’ new unilingual anglophone coach. Scores of anglophone (and francophone) fans who just wanted to get inside to watch their team play. A wet, cold January night that seemed to get colder and wetter as the sun set and the rain turned to snow.
But instead of tense, Saturday’s protest outside the Bell Centre organized by the Mouvement Québec français ended up seeming almost festive.
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(Excerpt) Read more at montrealgazette.com ...
Wonder of wonders. I have found French Canucks particularly nasty to non French speaking visitors to their domain.
C’est la vie.
was in Montreal years ago and asked a woman for directions.
She told me I had to speak French because I was in that city and that they all speak French.
She said this in English.
The look on her face when I did speak French back to her was priceless, but of course my French is what I had learned in Europe and not her bastard French.
The look on her face when I did speak French back to her was priceless, but of course my French is what I had learned in Europe and not her bastard French.
Sacré bleu!
We’re getting to this point in professional baseball and football, where not hiring blacks for coaching jobs has to be defended regardless of qualifications.
Sick
Ping.
Hockey etc. ping
“The look on her face when I did speak French back to her was priceless...”
L.O.L.
That’s an excellent story, thanks for sharing it.
One of the great ironies of this idiotic obsession these Montreal hockey fans have about the French language is that the English language is far more useful in the Montreal Canadiens' locker room than French is. The team has very few players from Quebec these days (only 2 of the 25 players listed on their website today). There are so many American players in the NHL today as well as Europeans with a decent command of the English language (including Canada and the U.S., the current Montreal team has players from nine different countries) that English has become something of a "universal language" for hockey coaches so they can communicate with most of their players.
If these Montreal fans cared as much about hockey as they do about the language skills of the team's head coach, the team might have been more successful in recent decades. They haven't won a Stanley Cup (or even been to a Cup finals) in nearly 20 years -- a startling string of failures for a team that has 24 Stanley Cup championships to its credit.
Well said!
I’m currently on the road and won’t have access to the ping list until Wednesday.
When I get home I will make sure my laptop has a copy, so this doesn’t happen again.
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This is francophone racism, pure and simple.
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