If I remember correctly ... only Quebec has a hair across its ass about only speaking French
Right you are. But in Montreal or Quebec City, it is assumed that each business owner there know English as it’s a tourist hot zone. You’ll know it when you have to ask any Denny’s waiter if they speak English and they’ll reply. But once you’re out of the city limits, it’s ALL French.
They are certainly the ones who use speaking French as a form of snobbery.
When we would visit MrT5’s relatives in Quebec, they spoke French constantly-made it clear that they thought I was a barbarian because I did not...
“only Quebec has a hair across its ass”
Many years ago, my Dad ordered tea at MsDonald’s in Quebec. They wouldn’t give it to them, pretending they couldn’t understand him. Yeah! There’s a huge difference between English and French regarding the word “Tea.”